Welcome to the Fortune City Melting Pot

Harrow Road Web Design Assistance Room

This page summarizes a few pages which you can visit to obtain information on web design and construction.

• General Reference

  Fortune City NewBie Zone -- reference links and links to advisors and ministers willing and able to help you build your page.	Fortune City Ministerial Help Page -- a wide range of Topic specific help guides and Information guides for your use.
  Dave Central Software Archive -- Balanone discovered this one on Sept. 4, 1998 -- it has all sorts of web-related and other software.	Pixel Pen -- simple guide to writing web pages for the beginner, starting from the very beginning.
  Builder.com	Netscape Open Studio
  The HTML Writer's Guild An organization with many resources available, including several FAQs, mailing lists, and several whole slews of links. Trial membership is free.

  
  
• Tutorials

  Dr. Joe Burns' HTML Goodies, tutorials, HTML pointers, Javascript scripts, and more.
  Xaven, one of the FC Neighborhood Guides, recommended this tutorial, especially the chapter concerning tables.

  
  
• HTML

  Index Dot HTML

  HTML 4.0 Specification from The World Wide Web Consortium. I've found it useful to download their entire specification, and use it on my system as my primary HTML reference.

  
  
• Techniques and Tricks

  Accessibility links from the General Services Administration's, Center for IT Accommodation (CITA)	Colors There were so many good pages dealing specifically with colors, that my best link is to Yahoo.
  Bad Design Fixing and Preventing Web Pages that Suck -- Learn good design by looki8ng at bad design	Tips & Tricks

  
  
• Validation and Tune-up

  W3C HTML Validation Service -- IMO the best validation for your HTML	Web Site Garage -- a decent page review service
  Bobby -- validate the accessibility of your pages	CSE offline HTML validator -- validate your HTML on your home/office computer before uploading pages to the web

  
  
• Graphics

  Webmaster's Heaven in Fortune City	Thanks to GraphXisle for the Hospitality Suite banner at the top of these pages.
  Free Web Art by David Thom	Andy's Art Attack

  
  
• Sounds

  Ubik Music -- instructions on how to put music/sound on web pages, and downloadable music files	The WAV Jumpgate -- links to *.wav files on the 'net
  LeMaze-- free stuff for sounds and music on the web	Mining Company -- links to Collections of Sounds From Assorted Movies & Other Sources

  
  
• Counters, Guestbooks, etc.

  BeSeen.com Claiming to be: the world's leading provider of FREE utilities to enhance your web site!  Offering free services for chat room, message board, quizlet, guestbook, quicknav, or hit counter set up and running with no downloads, no cgi programming and no lengthy installs!	Bravenet Free Guestbooks Free Web Forums Free Hit Counters Free Greeting Card Hosting Free E-mail Forms Free Site Search Engines Free Mailing Lists Free Website Announcers Free Voting Service Free Classified Ads Free Cartoon of the Day and we're working on more!
  Mark Welch -- Web Page Access Counters and Trackers	WebRing -- Web Ring creation, maintenance, directory, and more.

  
  
• Javascript, Java, CSS, DHTML, etc.

  JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer	Webpedia -- collections of Javascript scripts
  The Java Tutorial -- A practical guide for programmers with hundreds of full, working examples	GETTING STARTED WITH JAVA -- Here's a sort of starter kit for newcomers to Java -- a route through our web site for teaching yourself Java and for writing applets and applications as soon as possible.
  from builder.cnet.com	Web Reference
  Dynamic HTML Guru	WebCom WWW Fill-out Forms -- introduction, tutorial, and processor

  
  

If you know of any sites you'd like to recommend, email me. and let me know.

You may also want to visit our Neighborhood Assistance Crew page, listing those volunteers who are interested in helping us build award-winning sites.