Free Website Resources

(Please note: We have no control over the sites listed below. Any reliance you place on the information, or downloaded materials is at your own risk.)

Main Menus

• Project Seven - Stylesheet Based Dropdown Menu - used on this site - tutorial
• Vertical Menu Rollover Effects - stylesheet, CSS - tutorial

Stylesheet

• Change the stylesheet according to time of day - based on user's browser time; www.raging64.com is a working example (day, twilight, night stylesheet) - tutorial
• Control Line Length - Stylesheet - limit line length based on user's window size - article, tutorial
• Remove Browser Default CSS Settings - headings, lists, forms... - tutorial, blog
• Modern CSS Based Forms - tutorial

Media

• FastStone Image Viewer - great, free image management program, and more. So useful I sent a donation to the developer - application/program
• Video to Flash Converter - converts your video to Flash SWF format - application/program
• Flash Video Player - plays your Flash SWF video, embed in your website, used on this site - tutorial, download
• Flash Image Gallery - Flash image player - tutorial, download

General

• Project Seven Useful Tutorials and Articles - search engines, photo galleries, dropdown, tree menus...
• Random Background Image Swap - used in the header of this site - code generator
• Creating A Favicon.ico - used on this site - article
• Web Design Tips - article
• Creating the Perfect Popup - used on this site - tutorial
• Meta Tags - article, tutorial
• Google Tips - article
• How to Snatch an Expiring Domain - article
• Sample Internet Policies - articles from United Kingdom
• SoftDrawer Tree Menu - Javascript tree menu, haven't used it, but it looks useful

Font and Characters

• Online Character Counter - cut and paste
• Online Word Counter - cut and paste
• HTML Alpha Codes and Special Characters - list
• Online Point to Pixel Converter - other font size conversions too - automated typography conversion table
• Look Alike Fonts - article

Bug Fixes

• CSS Form Fix - fix background color overflowing in form fields in IE - forum
• Carriage Returns or Spaces in HTML Code - can cause extra spacing problems in Internet Explorer; takes priority over css settings; effects popular tags - keeping the tags inline with the content (especially the ending tag) and not using any spaces or carriage returns fixes the problem
  Correct:
  <td><img src="image.jpg"></td>
  or
  <td>
  <img src="image.jpg"></td>
  Incorrect (causes 3px gap at bottom of image):
  <td>
  <img src="image.jpg">
  </td>
  or
  <td><img src="image.jpg">   </td>

Dreamweaver and Fireworks

• Image Swap Gallery - by Kaosweaver, used on this site, but applied css styles to customize the look - Dreamweaver plugin
• Fireworks Batch Processing - tutorial
• Project Seven - Snap Layers - layer will anchor to an image - Dreamweaver extension

Browser Compatibility

• Browser Compatibility - web design resource directory
• Web Accessibility Tools - web accessibility tool directory
• Section 508, Section 255 Accessibility - information on 508 and 255
• Market Share - interesting site that lists stats on browsers, operating systems, search engines, resolutions, ISPs