| The Web Developer’s
Resource Page This page is devoted to
providing information of interest to anyone who creates Web pages. The following
links will take you to key topics.
Microsoft Core Fonts
for the Web
TrueType
core fonts for the Web — TrueType fonts for use with Windows and Apple
Macintosh computers. Install these high quality TrueType fonts, and whenever you
visit a Web site that specifies them, you'll see pages exactly as their designer
intended.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/FreeToolsOverview.mspx
Web safe color
references
|
 R35
Direct (http://www.r35.com)
is a company that sells products and services for Web developers. They
currently offer several tools to help you select Web-safe colors. Here
are two of those items.
R35 webColor
Pad
The R35 webColor
Pad is a scratch resistant, full color LexanŽ mouse pad that displays
each of the 216 web safe colors with brilliance and clarity. Placing
this stunning piece of art on your desk is sure to cause a stir of envy
(mixed with a hint of jealousy) among your closest web-savvy friends and
colleagues. "...your coworkers will be 00FF00
with envy when they see it," says Wired Magazine. ($19.95)
 VisiBone
Webmaster's Palette
The folks at
VisiBone Color Lab have produced the Webmaster's Palette - a vivid 18 X
24 inch poster displaying the popular 216 web safe colors arranged in a
symmetrical layout by hue. This breathtaking poster is printed using a
two-pass/eight-color process, including four custom blended inks with
satin aqueous coating. The Webmaster's Palette is sure to serve as a
priceless addition to your collection of web development tools.
24 inches high x 18 inches wide ($15.00) |
The
Colorizer
The Colorizer
is a handy Java applet that helps you interactively select colors for Web pages.
You can enter values in whatever format you want (RBG, HSB, HEX, decimal, or
percentage) and convert between them all, or graphically select colors from a
Photoshop-like color picker. Preview different combos to get just the right look
for your Web page. By Stephanos Piperoglou.
Web
color reference tables
Check out this page that shows
samples of Web Safe Colors and their
hexadecimal codes.
This page
displays hexadecimal
and RGB values of the web safe color you point to.
An even greater range of colors is shown on our
Netscape
Named Colors page.
Elsewhere on the Web, these Web
Color Tables will help you pick colors for your Web pages.
Photos
and other images for the Web
"Where can I find photos and
clip art for use on my Web pages?" is a question we hear often in our
classes. Some sites offer "free" images, while others license their
images for a fee or sell image collections on disks or CDs.
The following links will take you
to a variety of image resources. If you have a favorite site that isn't
listed here, please let us know via
e-mail.
| Clip
Art Warehouse
offers thousands of clip-art images, most of which are totally FREE. |
| Acez.com
offers FREE images and screensavers plus products for sale. |
| Royalty
Free Art offers FREE backgrounds, photos, and fine art plus images
for sale. |
| ClipArt.com
offers links to scores of sources of clip art images. |
| About.com
offers links to several FREE graphics sites. |
|
ScreamDesign
is a membership site offering graphics, backgrounds, sounds, and more! |
| EyeWire
sells photos and other images. |
JavaScript
samples
The
JavaScript Source is an excellent JavaScript resource with "cut and
paste" JavaScript examples for your web pages. The scripts are available
via a user friendly interface -- including a working JavaScript example of all
the scripts and a text box with the complete actual JavaScript code used.
Web page “Tips and
Tricks” from our trainers
This page is devoted to
passing along valuable and time-saving Web-related “tips and tricks” that
are recommended by our instructors.
HTML and Web Page
Development
Background Images and
Colors
- How can I apply
the blue sky and clouds background I see here to my own
Web pages?
The background of this page is based on a graphic named clouds.jpg.
Most browsers allow you to save the background image on your computer so you
can use that image as the background for your own Web pages. In the Windows
Internet Explorer environment, you can right-click on the background of this
page and choose the Save
Background as... command to save it on your computer for use on
your own Web pages.
To display the clouds.jpg image on your page, make sure the image
is stored in your web site folder and then modify the <body> tag of
your page to include the following background attribute:
<body
background="clouds.jpg">
Internet Explorer
can display a background image as a “watermark” that doesn’t scroll.
To do so, add the following bgproperties attribute to the
<body> tag:
<body background="clouds.jpg"
bgproperties="fixed">
(The bgproperties="fixed"
attribute was used on this page; it will be ignored by Netscape Navigator
and other browsers.)
Redirecting the viewer
to another page
- What can you do to
cause one page to automatically take the viewer to a second page after a few
seconds?
Add the following meta tag in the <head> section of the first
page. In the example shown here, the viewer will be taken to nextpage.htm
after 5 seconds. Make sure you type the quotation marks exactly as shown
below.
<meta
http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=nextpage.htm">
FrontPage 2000 Questions
- When
viewers fill out and submit an interactive form I created using FrontPage
2000, they are taken to a default confirmation page that lists the data they
submitted. Can I disable or at least modify this confirmation page?
While we know of no way
to disable the feature completely, you can redirect them to an alternate page.
For more details, click here to view a page that
addresses this issue in greater detail.
Click
here for more tips and tricks from the pages of Mouse Tracks!
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