Resources: Tech-Know

Web Design

Web Monkey
http://www.webmonkey.com/
Has multiple quick reference guides as well as a how-to library that covers most web design topics. Additionally, skill levels are separated into sections devoted to beginners, builders, and masters.

Girlstart Online Web Design Classes
http://www.girlstart.com/lessons/index.asp
Information on topics from how to email to computer viruses. HTML lessons are broken into sections based on skill levels and have a number of examples to illustrate the text.

Personal Web Page Tutorial
http://personalweb.about.com/od/ designapersonalwebsite/u/ gettingstarted.htm
Tutorial about how to create a Web page, promoting your site, staying safe, tool sites, and javascript sites.

Boogie Jack's Web Depot
http://www.boogiejack.com/html_tutorials.html
Basic, easy to understand instructions on everything from making your 1st web page to adding code to keep people from stealing the information on your website.

Dreamweaver Basics
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/webdev/ dwbasic/create.html
Learn how to save your page, insert a table, insert a picture... You get it, this tutorial will show you all the basics you need to know to get started.

Manipulating Photos and Images

Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/graphics/ photoshop7/
This is a great place to start. This tutorial will help you to familiarize yourself with the Photoshop interface.

Photoshop Tips and Tricks
http://www.tema.ru/p/h/o/t/o/s/h/o/p/
This is a great site to learn how to use the program Photoshop and with neat tricks on how to manipulate your photos.

Fireworks Tips and Tricks
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/fireworks_tips.asp

Free Clip Art and Images

Absolute Background Textures Archive
http://www.grsites.com/textures/

The Animation Factory
http://www.animationfactory.com/en/
Looking to put a cool animation on your website? This is the place to look, it has over 3,000 free animations.

Barry's Clipart Server
http://www.barrysclipart.com/
Clipart is organized into easy-to-use categories.

Discovery School's Free Clipart
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/
This is the Discovery Channel's clip art so you know it's going to be good!

Flamingtext.com
http://www.flamingtext.com/
Not only pictures here. You can choose one of their many fonts and create your own custom animated gif that glows or even has flames. Very cool!

Free Foto
http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
Find photographs that are taken by a professional photographer. From English castles to flowers, you can find a picture of what you are looking for. Photos are organized by subject.

Kaboose Clip Art
http://clip-art.kaboose.com/index.html
You'll find loads of cool images here and links to even more clip art pages.

KidsClick Clip Art Listings
http://www.kidsclick.org/cgi-bin/searchkids.pl?searchtype=all&keywords=clip+art&title=Clip+Art
Links to more clip art listings. Sites range from Mexican Culture to Earth Day to Horses.

Microsoft Clipart Gallery
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx
This site features a whole lot of clipart, photos, and animations. There are several collections and styles to choose from.

Free Web Page Building Sites

Angelfire
http://angelfire.lycos.com/
20 MBs of space. Places an ad at the top of every page. Some pop-up ads. Must be 13 or have parental consent.

Tripod
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
20 MBs of space. Places an ad at the top of every page. Some pop-up ads. Must be 13 or have parental consent.

Yahoo
http://geocities.yahoo.com/home/
15 MBs of space. You must put the Geoguide - which includes a banner ad - at the top of each page or a pop-up ad will appear as each page is viewed. Must be 13 or have parental consent.

Free e-Cards

E-Cards
http://www.e-cards.com/
These are E-cards that have a global, educational, and environmental twist. A very cool feature of this site is that they list "hello" and "I Love you" in several different languages. Say Hello in Korean or Russian today!

Greetings Island
http://www.greetingsisland.com/
A great mix of postcards, animated cards, and cards using Flash.

Hallmark
http://www.hallmark.com/
Looking for a card by a greeting card industry giant? Just remember to click on the link that says "browse free e-cards"

Free Fonts

1001 Free Fonts
http://www.1001freefonts.com/
When they say 1001, they don't lie! There are over 2000 fonts here just for the taking. Fonts are available for PCs and Macs.

Blue Vinyl Fonts
http://www.bvfonts.com/
A great collection of freeware fonts that are for both PCs and Macs.

Font Freak
http://www.fontfreak.com/index2.htm
This site has thousands of free fonts that are for both PCs and Macs.

Email

Yahoo! Mail
http://mail.yahoo.com/
Get a free web based email account. Must be 13 and older.

Hotmail
http://mail.live.com/
Get a free web based email account. Must be 13 or older.

Email Addresses
http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_web.htm
Want to investigate your email options? This site gives you the low down on all the free web based email services available.

Computers

McAfee Virus Information Library
http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/default.asp
More than 100,000 threats exist today. The McAfee AVERT Virus Information Library has detailed information on where viruses come from, how they infect your system, and how to remove them.

About the Internet BPL Kids Page
http://www.bpl.org/kids/aboutinternet.htm
Boston Public Library's Internet information page. Answers basic questions about the Internet, like what it is, how it works, and what you need to use it.

How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
This site provides expert info, advice and links for just about any subject under the sun (or in your computer). The Internet section links you to an subject area (hardware, software, Web pages) for in-depth information, and even more links. Links at the bottom of this page tell you great stuff that you might not find in an overview article.

Can You Guess the Computer?
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/game.html
This PBS Online interactive game lets you test your knowledge of computers and ultimately, learn your nerd quotient.

Dictionaries

Net Lingo
http://www.netlingo.com/
Dictionary of Internet terms, it contains thousands of words and definitions that describe the online world of business, technology and communication.

BPL's Internet Dictionary
http://www.bpl.org/KIDS/Glossary.htm
Boston Public Library's Internet dictionary.