Resources For Scripts
JavaScript, CGI/Perl, etc] & Applets
(In alphabetical order)

CGI Scripts & Resources – from desktopPublishing.com, an excellent resource

Cut-N-Paste JavaScript – about 200 free JavaScripts to copy and paste into your webpages

DHTML Demos – cross browser demos of Dynamic HTML; excellent site

Dynamic HTML Guru Resources – spectacular look at the effects possible with DHTML

Dream Catchers CGI Scripts – an excellent collection of free CGI scripts

dZiners.com – a small selection of excellent (and free) Java applets; have a look!

Fluid Dynamics: Freeware CGI Collection – a good selection of free CGI scripts

Fred's JavaScript Site – some good scripts with info (site is designed for Netscape browsers)

Java Goodies – a huge selection of free Java scripts

Matt's Script Archive – probably the most famous script resource site on the Net!

Selena Sol's Public Domain Script Archive – the name says it all; superb!

Smiley's CGI/Perl Source page – some good resources and scripts

The CGI REsource Index – links to hundreds of scripts in dozens of categories; sensational!

The Coders Archive Center – features DTHML, JavaScript and Java with examples, scripts, etc

The Scripts Home – billed as "the total resource for scripts on the Net"; it's not

WebReference – truly awesome collection of free JavaScripts and lots of advice on HTML

We all have to start somewhere, and if you haven't played around with Web authoring before then I suggest that the first site you visit is WebNovice Online which will gently lead you hand the hand (not the nose) and steer you in the right path. When you've picked up the basics, come back here and check out some of the sites listed below (you have already bookmarked this site, haven't you?).

Another site which features HTML tutorials, plus a good selection of buttons and bars, an impressive section filled with Java scripts, and many, many other sections is HTML Goodies. Definitely one to bookmark!

A site which provides information from the bare basics for the absolute newbie to the sophisticated JavaScript ‘magic buttons' is Professional Web Design. It also has some ‘neato' Web Page Resources to move you from tutorials to the finished product.

If you would like an electronic book (with graphics) to learn the art of web basics, Web Artist will walk you through the rudiments off-line. This 1.1MB download has an optional 36kB help file, htmlhelp.zip. Web Artist is a DOS program which works well under Windows (W3.1 & W95) and under OS/2. The author offers other free books on his site too.

Once you've mastered the basics of HTML coding and you're all set to create that masterpiece which you expect will get at least 100,000 hits per day, go visit Art and the Zen of Web Sites and get some serious down-to-earth advice on what you should – and shouldn't – be doing on your webpages. The advice isn't always what you want to hear, but if you heed it you will go a lot further down that road towards achieving your target.

For advice, examples and reference material for HTML coding, creating animated GIFs, CGI scripts, Java, JavaScript and buckets of other stuff essential for WebMasters, go to the Web Developer's Virtual Library and spend a month or so checking through all the information and links there. If you run Win95 then download The HTML Reference Library for Win95.

 If you are building a Web page and would like to really get creative, visit How Do They Do That With HTML? which not only gives some brilliant tips and tricks, but also gives links to terrific specialist pages where you can really hone your Web authoring skills.

Visit Free stuff for your webpages! and you'll find a resource site which covers areas such as ‘Free Websites', ‘Hit Counters', ‘Add A Free Chat Room', HTML Help N Hints', ‘Free E-Mail Forwarding', ‘Banner Exchanges', ‘Gettin Paid', ‘Lots O Graphics' and many, many more. This is one resource site you'll keep coming back to, time after time.

If you have a website and want to include a reply form on it, try FreeForm, a CGI-based form mailer which does not require you to know any CGI/Perl programming and nor does it require you to establish a CGI bin on your server. Both very big plusses. Fill in the on-line form and within seconds your form is created (hardest part is filling in the form!). With your raw form you can insert the HTML code ‘as is' into your webpage, or be creative and fine tune it a little. On the CFS E-mail Update form I changed small things, like the name of the text areas to better represent what the information was that I was seeing when the results turned up in my mail. So ‘menu1' became ‘WhereFound', etc. You don't have to be a programmer to amend the form, though there are plenty of tutorials on-line to help you if you do have a problem. It's gotta be the easiest way to get a reply form on your page.

For free clipart to jazz up your homepages try Barry's Clip Art Server, and Andy's Art.

Another terrific line-up of web graphics – including themes so you can grab complete matching suites of buttons, backgrounds and signs – is Bimsan's Web Graphics. A site not to be missed.

While you're browsing, check out Jelane's Free Web Graphics which has families of graphics (full sets for homepages) and other categories, plus some useful ‘how-to' sections. You can also help get your graphic's ‘fix' at Being Seen: Free Web Graphics and get an ‘eye' full of graphics (this terrible pun will be understood when you visit the page). If you really want to get images (animated GIFs, photos, buttons, etc, etc, etc) there are 75,000 of them free for non-commercial use on the Xoom Software site. Xoom also offers lots of other things – like free webpages – so you might like to have a good browse around while you're there. To access Xoom Software, click on the banner below:

Need a banner? Use The Banner Generator to have one created on the spot. There are almost too many choices to individualize your banner so it won't look like an ‘off the rack' one – just be patient while you try out the different options available. How about an animated GIF? Visit www.GIFWorld.com! claimed to be "the best free Animated GIF Site for WebMasters on the Web!" You know what? It probably is too!