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Design Resources

Once you become familiar with making web pages, you can further your knowledge of web designs by doing some research on the web. These links will take you to sites that offer information about style do's and don'ts of web design, where you can learn HTML, web site coding checkers, and much more.

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Style Guides

Yale Style Guide (http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html)
This book (which has been printed online for free) provides information on design strategies, such as navigation, page design, graphics, and much more. This is a great place to start for those who are just beginning web design, and want to know all the basics.

Webmonkey (http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/)
For the more advanced web designer, you might want to check this site out. It offers information about style sheets, multimedia, color, and other design aspects that you might want to learn about later on along the road in your experience with web designing.

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Fonts, Graphics, and Backgrounds

Fonts and Graphics (http://www.fontsandgraphics.com/)
A directory of sites where you can find free web design supplements for your site. This site has many links to sites that have HTML guides, fonts, animations, backgrounds, and a lot more resources.

1001 Free Fonts (http://www.1001freefonts.com/)
This great site has tons of unique fonts that you can add to your computer, and use for your web designing or graphics producing. There are a lot of out of the ordinary and stylish fonts that can be found here.

Free-Backgrounds.com (http://www.free-backgrounds.com/)
If you're looking to add a little spice to your web pages, you can go here to find free background images to use in your work. This site has a huge variety of different styles of backgrounds, ranging from plain and simple, to holiday and patterned backgrounds.

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Website Checking and Improving

Web Site Garage (http://websitegarage.netscape.com/)
Provides services for improving your website. Features include checking your site for coding errors, and seeing how fast your site loads in a browser based on how optimized your graphics are.

NetMechanic (http://www.netmechanic.com/)
This web site checker detects HTML errors, and can find browser incompatibilities with your web site. Additionally, you can use this site to track visitors, and have your site submitted to search engines.

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HTML Guides

HTML Goodies (http://www.htmlgoodies.com/)
An excellent place to begin if you want to learn how to code your own web sites in HTML. There are plenty of tutorials on how to make basic web site features in HTML, and even goes above and beyond HTML coding.

NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML (http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/)
This site has a printable version of its HTML guide that is great to study from. This is also a great star for beginners.

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Advanced Guides

Flash Kit (http://www.flashkit.com/)
Flash is a program brought to you by Macromedia, the people who created Dreamweaver. Flash allows you to make animation, and even web design layouts. This site provides information and tutorials on how to make a Flash movie and web page.

A Beginner's Guide to Java (http://www.javascriptguide.com/)
If you've ever thought about adding Java scripts to your site, then this is a great site to check out. It's good for those who are just starting out with Java, and this site offers tips and tutorials.

Javascript.com (http://www.javascript.com/)
Want to find Java scripts to insert games or applications to your website? Then visit this site, because it has tons of scripts you can use.

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