Gerald J. Klaas's Bookmarks

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Guides and tutorials

Course Technology Textbook Tutorials (21A)

Course Technology online materials (21B)

Netscape HTML Page Templates

The Bare Bones Guide to HTML by Kevin Werbach

GAD's DNS and TCP/IP handouts

RGB color chart

browser width test pattern

ISO 8859-1 chart - character entities

ASCII chart

metatags crib sheet

Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial

Internet Engineering Task Force - Find RFC's here

Software that Gerald uses

base converter - (Freeware) - use to pick RGB color off an existing graphic.

GIF Construction Set - (Shareware) - (yes, I've registered) - makes transparent and animated GIFs

ImageForge - (Freeware from Cursor Arts) - Paintbrush type program supports multiple formats (but not GIF - because of Unysis Corp. belated copyright claims) - BTW: I will never buy another Unysis product.

EditPad - (Freeware/Postcardware) - Gerald's favorite text editor

WS_FTP LE - (Free for students) - FTP client (Win95) - ws_ftple.exe

Arachnophilia - (Care-ware) - HTML editor

Other FREE software - HTML editors, tools

Software Gerald uses in class
(because it runs on a floppy)

WinJpeg - (Shareware) - Image viewer/converter (Win3.x) - winjp16.exe

GlobalChat - (Freeware) - IRC client by Quarterdeck (Win3.x) - gc0101.exe

WS_FTP - (Shareware) - FTP client (Win3.x) - ws_ftp16.exe

Security Stuff

Shields Up! - Test your PC for open ports

pcPitStop - FREE Online Virus Scanner - (requires use of Internet Explorer browser)

ZoneAlarm - FREE - personal firewall

smartin-designs - use your hosts file to get rid of web page ads

Security Related Links

Privacy Tools

Datafellows - Check out the virus information library

htpasswd - Web gateway for building Apache password files

Java-based SSH client - Runs in IE or Netscape

Finjan Software - Active content test suite

Other Goodies

W3C code validator

C|NET web building (javascript, validators)

some public domain artwork

Totally free web stuff

Javascript snippets

a transparent gif

browser font test page

search engine submission

An explanation to why Gerald hates Microsoft

Books Gerald Recommends

Unix Power Tools Jerry D. Peek, et al

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