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These are just a few sites that helped me with Dreamweaver and HTML:
- Photoshop Guidelines
To guide beginning users through the basics of editing a photograph using Adobe Photoshop. Although these guides are designed specifically for Photoshop, the same or very similar steps apply in most image editing programs. Usually the defaults are set so that when Photoshop opens, it also opens a variety of palettes that you will use in editing pictures.
- About.Com
About.com is a nice Web site to use. About.com offers guidance on a range of topics. I used this site to do research on how to reduce the size of photos for online usage.
- Understanding Images|68 Classifieds Blog & News
Iimages are one of the most misunderstood aspects that impacts users of 68C. 68C conveys some basic info about images to help you better understand how 68C deals with them and why there are limitations on their size and why its important to have your administration settings for your site set properly. 68Clasifieds uses a high quality image upload class for handling the resizing of images. When you as a site admin or an ad poster places an ad and uploads an image many things need to take place.
- Color on the Web
The only way to guarantee your page will look the same on each user's monitor is to choose from a range of browser-safe colors for your webpage. Most monitors can display at least 8 bit (256 colors), but only 216 colors are shared by the browsers and operating systems of different computers. These are your browser-safe colors.
- Testing the Readability of Web Page Colors
Unlike the typical printed page, web documents are generally designed to include color. The careful use of color can make the document easier to read, easier to navigate, and more appealing to the reader. The proper use of color can also increase the user's performance in computer based decision support systems. This site describes an algorithm that can be used to machine test the readability of colors used for web pages.
- W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
A free Web site that offers guidance and tutorials on current XHTML standards and guidelines. W3Schools is the largest and most popular web developers resource in the world. Since W3Schools is targeted towards developers, advertisements for all kinds of developer products will get a lot of attention.
- Links in HTML
Tutorial explaining in full detail the nature and usage of HTML links. It not only shows the basic syntax of links, but also goes through various characteristics that are usually not used and provides a lot of hidden information for different interpreters (e.g., search engines). This site is also free.
- Cool Text: Logo and Graphics Generator
Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly.
- World Wide Web Consortium - Web Standards
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines. W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software, and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.
- HTML Goodies
If you are brand new to the world of Web Development, and maybe even new to computers in general, then this is the place for you to start. It describes, in completely non-technical terms, the process you will go through to begin the creation of a website. It's not about how to make the pages themselves, although there is some general background information that will help you when you do begin to make to create them, but about all the other things to consider before you begin.
