Please note this website is no longer being updated due to personal circumstances. Some links may no longer be available but the entire website is being left in place since even in a restricted capacity it may still be helping people. PLEASE do not email me about changes to this website because this site is no longer being updated!
Here are the links for building great web sites....also, don't forget our Graphics Page listed at the bottom of the page, for links to graphics, fonts and other web tools. Should you want to create a clickable database, you might like to refer to our Gedcom Page where there are details of a number of useful programs and links that will be helpful.
CYNDI'S GENEALOGY HOMEPAGE CONSTRUCTION KIT This is a site rich in helpful advice and links for building a web site. Cyndi also gives a list of free sites available for web building.
GIFPILE Here is a good site for those building websites or who need good clip art. The site boasts over 2600 Graphic and Clip Art links.
BARE BONES GUIDE TO HTML Not only are there helpful files to download and study at leisure, but they are also available in a number of languages and formats.
SO YOU WANT TO MAKE A WEB PAGE! Joe Barta's excellent contribution to web site building. Page Tutor tutorials, also Table Tutor, Forms Tutor & Frames Tutor.
COLOR PICKER Here's one page gleaned from Joe Barta's site which is so good it merits an entry on its own...brilliant! This little gem called Color Picker enables you to select background and link colors, font and font type and see them all together before placing them on your web page. The selections are not only viewable on color Picker but also generate the HTML code you can then copy and paste on your page. I love it!!!!
HYPE's COLOR SPECIFIER FOR NETSCAPE A wonderful selection of colours suitable for websites, complete with numbers.
You can define filename case, adjust brightness and contrast, set the size of thumnails, and adjust the sharpness and gamma correction. Input formats handled include .bmp, .dib, .ico., .jpg, .pcx, .png, .tga, and .tif; output formats include .bmp, .jpg, .dib, .pcx, .ico, and .tif. The resulting thumbnails are created in the folder of your choice and can be used for Web pages or on your local hard disk."
HOMEPAGE CONSTRUCTION Cora Num's list of helpful sites related to webpage construction.
CNET BUILD YOUR FIRST WEB SITE This site offers good advice on designing, building, graphics and includes links to software.
ANNIE'S SIMPLE GUIDE TO HOME PAGE DESIGN This is a beautiful site...well set out, easy to understand, and gives one the impression that web building is not only easy, but fun!
LISSA EXPLAINS IT ALL To quote from the site, "The first and original HTML help for kids."
THE SMORGASBORD Free Tutorials here, for website building, managing graphics, tutorials on the various website building programs, and much more...
SPOTLIGHT ON HTML There's no better place to master HTML than online; however, it can be daunting to sift through the hundreds of HTML tutorials on the Web. CNET Builder.com has gathered the best HTML know-how in one handy, easy-to-use place. In this topic center, you'll find beginning tutorials to advanced techniques, as well as articles on the official HTML specification and sites devoted strictly to HTML.
BIGNOSEBIRD.COM There are over 300 pages of tutorials, reference materials, and other free resources located on this site.
THE TOTALLY FREE HOMEPAGE RESOURCE CENTER To quote from the site, "Here you'll find some really groovy software, access to plenty of image archives, sources for JavaScript, and pointers to other places that will give you advice on how to become a better web author."
BEGINNING HTML HTML Goodies.com site. There are a number of tutorials on this site plus details of a discussion group where you can get further assistance.
THE SEVLOID GUIDE TO WEB DESIGN The Sevloid Guide to Web Design is a collection of over 100 tips, tricks and techniques on every aspect of web design. The tips are sorted into the categories of page layout, navigation, content, graphics and more.
BRAVENET SERVICES Bravenet offer completely free and very easy to use web tools. Services include hit counters, guestbooks, search engines, forums plus much more.
FREEPAGES AT ROOTSWEB Free unlimited webspace at Rootsweb.
ROOTSWEB'S GUESTBOOK Free Guestbooks available here in a variety of colours.
ANGELFIRE-COLORS To quote from the site, "The 216 colors shown in this chart are "web-safe". This means they will display consistently in all web browsers and platforms. Just copy the hexadecimal code of the color that you want to use, and paste it into the HTML of your page in the appropriate place(s) to set the background color, text color, link color, etc. "
FREE GUIDE TO DEVELOPING A HOMEPAGE A step-by-step beginner's guide to building a homepage.
JAVAFILE To quote from the site, "You don't need to know how to program! Just download the script or applet you want to use... add it to your HTML, and edit it to suit your needs."
WHATUSEEK SEARCH BOX Want a search box for your website? These search boxes can be customised to your web site colours. WhatUseek send details each week with the statistics of what folks have searched for on your site..very helpful!
MEDIA BUILDER 3D TEXT MAKER This is a good site for making 3D headings for your web pages and from this site there are also links for Button Makers, Banner Makers and links for fonts, tutorials and animations.
LAURA'S MIDI HEAVEN More music..lots of midi files to download here to use as a musical background to your website.
WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOLS Stroud's CWS Apps site, with some excellent links for various web development tools and other useful goodies.
A TOUCH OF COUNTRY A Touch of Country site for graphics, genealogy graphics, website design and useful links.
NET MECHANIC Webmaster HTML code help and repair,also a link for checking out loading times and broken links plus submission site for 100 search engines.
WEB PAGE DESIGN A small but very useful article giving advice on website building, with special emphasis on what to avoid.
WEBLINT GATEWAY A Weblint gateway is an HTML form which lets you type in a URL and have it checked by Weblint without having to install Weblint locally.
ASK DR.WEB Help and Tips for People Who make Websites.
BOOGIE JACK'S WEB DEPOT This site is described as the "one stop outpost for free backgrounds, left border backgrounds, wallpapers, textures, buttons, banners and other graphics."
BOOGIE JACK'S HTML TUTORIALS A Beginner's Guide to Web Page Creation, Site Planning, plus Individual Lessons...the Basics and Beyond and much more. A very useful site.
BASIC HELP FOR BEGINNING WEBMASTERS Pat Asher's advice here is wonderfully simple and easy to understand. A very good site, with links to other useful information.
