Useful links and sites

[kv1at3485]

W3C HTML/XHTML Markup Validator - Helps to make sure that your webpage looks more or less the same way in all browsers.

W3C Cascading Style Sheet Validator - Make sure your CSS code is correct, which will help browsers render your page correctly.

Browser Standards Compliance Comparison - If you want your webpage to work in all browsers, check here to see what HTML/CSS features you can and cannot use.

[Arianwen]

coffeecup.com has FTP / html / templates etc.

[starrchild]

What? No PhotoShop tutorial sites? I am shocked, shocked to my foundations, I tell you!

Ok, here's my fave one: Good-Tutorials

Didn't see it listed, so I thought I share this lovely site just chock-full of PhotoShop goodness....

[Rick Salvi]

Does anyone know what happened to ... StarTrekAustrialia.com ?

becuase its mysterious 'disappearance' is confusing...

[hellsgate]

Andrew Hodges, {Moderator/Owner of "Star Trek: Australia",} is probably upgrading "Star Trek: Australia" or trimming past unpopular kitbash designs to save bandwidth costs.

[Salinga]

SelfHTML:


http://en.selfhtml.org/

Online reference for (D)HTML, JS, CSS, XML (DTD), Perl (CGI), PHP and Website-Templates.

The current version can be completly downloaded as HTML or CHM for local use.

[Salinga]

eXTReMe Tracking:

http://extreme-dm.com

With the eXTReMe Tracker you get every advanced feature required to picture the visitors of your website. Conveniently arranged, numbers, percentages, stats, totals and averages. All the way up from simple counting your visitors until tracking the keywords they use to find you.

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editor PSPad - freeware editor

http://www.pspad.com

This freeware editor handles: Syntax highligtning and parsing, compiler integration, hex editing etc.

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XnView - Free graphic viewer

http://www.xnview.com

Free image viewer with many functions to edit or alter images.

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ColorGrabber

http://www.mirrorkey.com

Lets you grab the color value of every pixel on your desktop.

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Ping-Plotter

http://www.pingplotter.com

PingPlotter is an advanced multi-threaded traceroute program.

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CesarFTP

http://www.aclogic.com

CesarFTP is an easy-to-use and fast to configure FTP server.

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GenControl

http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html

GenControl is a simple desktop remote control program for Windows 2000 or Windows NT networks. It allows the authorised administrator to remotely control the desktop of another machine over a Windows-based network.

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GNU wget - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the two most widely-used Internet protocols.

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CutePDF - Create PDF for free, Save PDF Forms, Edit PDF easily;.

http://www.acrosoftware.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!

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Sloppy - the slow proxy for dial-up modem speed simulation (slow ...

http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy

Example usage: you probably build web sites on your local network, which is fast. Using Sloppy is one way to get the "dial-up experience" of your work without the hassle of having to install a modem.

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Ranking Report

http://www.suchmaschinentricks.de/software

Retrieve the rank of your homepage on several search machines

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JMeter - Apache JMeter

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter

Graphical server performance testing tool, for both static and dynamic resources (files or CGI, Servlets,...

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Eclipse.org

http://www.eclipse.org

A project aiming to provide a universal toolset for development. Open Source IDE.

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ActiveState - ActiveState ActivePerl free Perl open source binary ...

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl

ActivePerl is ActiveState's quality-assured distribution of Perl, available for Linux, Solaris, and Windows. As part of ActiveState's support for Perl, we provide the ActivePerl packages free to the Perl community.

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Welcome! - The Apache HTTP Server Project

http://httpd.apache.org

The most popular web server on the net.

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ComponentSoftware RCS - Version Control System for Windows

http://www.componentsoftware.com

CS-RCS Basic and CS-RCS Pro The Ultimate Windows Revision Management Solution! FREE for private users.

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Absolute Background Textures Archive: 4702 Free Tiling Background...

http://www.grsites.com/textures

Features 4000 seamlessly tiling background textures for use in web pages, graphical software, and...

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1001 Fonts .com Download Free Fonts

http://www.1001fonts.com

Download over 1001 free TrueType and PostScript fonts for Windows and Macintosh.

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Apache Tomcat

http://tomcat.apache.org/

Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.

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Web Application Framework

http://struts.apache.org/

The goal of the Apache Struts project is to encourage application architectures based on the "Model 2" approach, a variation of the classic Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm. Under Model 2, a servlet (or equivalent) manages business logic execution, and presentation logic resides mainly in server pages.

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AJAX Tutorial:

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...etting_Started

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a newly coined term for two powerful browser features that have been around for years, but were overlooked by many web developers until recently when applications such as Gmail, Google suggest, and Google Maps hit the streets.

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Full Web Building Tutorials - All Free

http://www.w3schools.com

At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.

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Free forum hosting:

http://invisionfree.com/

1,000,000 free message boards registered with 10,500,000 members registered

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Open-SSL

http://www.openssl.org/

The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.

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AWStats

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/


AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.

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Sambar

http://www.sambar.com

Web & Proxyserver

[MikeGainer]

For the web graphic designers that are afraid of copyright infringement. Here is a website with multiple links that contain copyright-friendly images. Links include photos and multimedia.

Copyright Friendly Images

[ElimParra]

I found this for guestbooks - flash ones:-

Flash Guestbooks - there is about 40 free ones there.

[Just_Bob]

AdamJ and all; Thank you! This thread has made my day.

[cubbie]

Thank you everyone for the links!

[whacked]

I used Joomla - formerly Mambo - for my website below (in the sig). It is a an opensource CMS with one of the biggest communites of developers. There are a ton of extensions that add to its capabilites (i.e. an image gallery). I wanted more than a simple blog so I went with it and created a superblog.

[Sasoriza]

digifan said:
For screen cap images, trailers and other info related to Star Trek, Trekpulse is an excellent starting point. Check them out.

Or, Trekcore, the Trekpulse alternative....

Does anyone know where to get older versions of 3D Studio Max? In the 4.2-6.0 range? (The cheaper, the better.) Discreet (pardon, Autodesk) doesn't seem to offer them anymore.

[FrontLine]

Look for local computer shows. They normally sell a wide range of discontinued software at reasonable prices.

[tkron]

If anyone could suggest a site I can use to test/validate my XHTML files BEFORE I upload them to my server, I'd be most appreciative. Live long and prosper!