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 Much as we'd like to design your web site for you, we're all in favor of people doing it on their own. It's fun, it's creative, and it gives you a chance to show your stuff to the world. So here are a few sites where you can download tools to help you make your own web site. HTML Resources Visit the following sites for information about HTML and how to use it. Inspiration and AdviceFor sheer inspiration, nothing beats David Seigel's book, Creating Killer Websites. For years, Seigel has been imposing his good taste on the web, developing all sorts of workarounds to overcome the design limitations of HTML and making it possible for Web designers to have almost as much flexibility as they would in print. The universally recognized "dot_clear.gif", for instance, is a Seigel innovation. Visit Creating Killer Websites Online to pick up a few tips.
Another great book is Designing Multimedia Web Sites by Stella Gassaway, Gary Davis, and Catherine Gregory. To see some of their work live, just drop by vizbyte.com. Other books worth checking out are both of Laura LeMay's Books -- Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week" and Teach Yourself More Web Publishing with HTML in a Week.
To create Web pages, we mostly use If you want to get a little interactive with the visitors to your site, you might want to include some forms. You can find out how to do this by visiting Web Forms.
For hotshot, professional graphics, nothing stands up to software like Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator or Corel's Draw. However, if you don't want to spend a lot of money on software, there are same pretty good programs out there for under a hundred bucks that will give you a lot of the same capabilities. One useful tool that you can get for free is GifBuilder, a scriptable utility to create animated GIF files on the Macintosh. It can be used manually to collect PICT, GIF, TIFF or Photoshop images or to convert QuickTime movies, FilmStrip or PICS files, or via AppleScript with other scriptable applications like clip2gif. If creating your own graphics seems like too much work, don't sweat it. There are plenty of places on the Web where you can download icons, buttons, images, and animated gifs free of charge. Here are just a few.
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