Free and cheap programs available for download, that make web page making easier.
This page will be updated soon. Meanwhile, Here are some good links:
Many of these are old dead links that need to be weeded out, others are still in use:
General sites where you can download many types of programs:
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"WebFormsTM lets you create your own WWW forms which you can link to your home page, allowing you to accept orders for your products, conduct surveys, or anything you can think of that requires a response from your users!" ---Shareware. This sounds like a good program for online quizzes, or student responses.
Expo:
Screen Saver Edition
"The Expo Screen Saver Edition lets you generate dynamic screen savers filled
with text, animation, sound, special effects, and interactive controls, and then
distribute your work with a royalty-free runtime module."---This shareware
version of the full Expo program lets you try out all the features of Expo but will only
save the finished files as screensavers. So it's really sort of a freeware
screensaver-making program that is designed to sell you on the big multimedia program.
DOWNLOAD.COM -- Title List: Animation Programs
A large number of shareware and freeware animation programs for GIF's, VRML, and Java animations.
Free TrueType fonts
"Install these high quality TrueType fonts, and whenever you visit a Web site
that specifies them, you'll see pages exactly as the site designer intended."
---You
can also use these fonts in your own pages to make many viewers see YOUR sites in unusual
fonts.
"If it has to do with graphics, this popular paint program can probably do it. You can paint, retouch, enhance, fine-tune, edit, convert, and more, using Paint Shop Pro’s extensive toolbox. Paint with a brush, pen, pencil, marker, crayon, pastel, airbrush, or charcoal. Retouch photographs using lighten, darken, soften, sharpen, or embossing effects." Popular shareware paint program that sells for less than $70 in the registered version.
Microsoft GIF
Animator for Windows 95
Another good Microsoft freebie that lets you make animated GIF's using Windows 95.
Microsoft Image
Composer: Home
Free photo/paint program that helps you make still JPEG's, GIF's and other image files.
This program includes lots of free backgrounds and royalty-free images that can take up a
lot of hard drive, but it's emphasis is on making web graphics, which makes it perfect for
web use. This is similar in quality to programs like Photoshop and Corel Draw that cost
hundreds of dollars, so it's a good idea to download it before Microsoft upgrades it and
decides to start charging for it!
Yahoo to Go
You can get a free search engine, or stock ticker, or local weather "window"
from Yahoo to Go, which will allow you to copy a little code into your page that
lets people do searches, or see information right from your site.
GIF Wizard Direct
From this site you can get a code that puts a window for the GIF Wizard Online GIF
File Reducer into your page. This will let your viewers reduce the size of GIF files,
on which they are working, right from your page, without having to exit your site.
The Weather Channel - Home Page will make you a custom-designed weather page to link to. You can get weather maps and reports for the areas that affect your student's projects--like if the weather will be clear at night for telescope observation, or whether your stadium will have rain or heat for the upcoming game.
GetReminded.com will let you set up mailing lists for website newsletters. Users of your site can subscribe or unsubscribe to your mailing list with a single button click, and you can send updates to subscribers automatically, instead of individually. Setting this up takes about 10 minutes.
This site will also let you set up a reminder list so that your students can sign up to get automatic reminders of upcoming due dates and tests.
These techniques made a 200 page site with 1000 graphics in six months, with NO previous
training on the Internet! If you want to see how it looks, Tara's main web site is
Tara's Cheap Tricks, Copyright 1997, Tara Maginnis
