How to Exploit the Free Resources
of the Internet:
(updated
3/2/98)
- Download Trial Versions of new
programs for free!
- Browsers - download Netscape's
latest browser (includes integrated wysiwyg html editor)
- or, download Netscape
3.0 Gold - the browser I used to show you the easy way to make pages..
- simply identify your operating system & desired language, then
"select desired version" - Navigator 3.02 Gold
download and install. It's really quite fast and easy.
- Select any browser you want - and get tips
and fixes at Browser.com
- Compare HTML compliance of different
browsers at Crossbrowser.com
- Graphics Tools
- Paint
Shop Pro Graphics Editor - (Functional Trial Package)
- Gif Animator
- Create your own animated gifs (Functional Trial Package)
- Boutell's Image Map Editor - Mapedit
- easily create image maps
- Server Software
- Apache
- the web's most popular, best performing, and best priced UNIX server
- Xitami
Web Server - funny name, but legions of satisfied users
- Website
- O'Reilly & Associates' windows NT/95 Server
- Microsoft.com
- download browser, server, ActiveX, patches, fixes to Microsoft products
- Tools & Utilities
- WS_FTP - a fine FTP client - select WS_FTPLE.exe
- Shareware.com
- The World's Best source of free and shareware
- Galt
Shareware's Webmaster Pro - Full Featured HTML Editor Plus
site Management Tools!
- WinZip
file extraction compression utility (used with *.zip files)
- Netscape's New JavaScript
development environment
- Check out it's amazing features!
(This is NEW - discovered since the class)
- However, be forewarned - This is new, beta
software and requires 32 mb to run.
- Microsoft's Win95
PowerToys -
- Includes a generic windows HTML printer
driver- very handy for publishing legacy documents..
- - and QuickRes - instantly change your screen
resolution to see how your pages look at a variety of resolutions and color
schemes - a must have for effective, professional website development.
- Webmaster
Resources Pages - full of many helpful links
- Download software upgrades (HP Printer
Drivers)
- Use training tutorials and free or subscription
reference & information sources
- Promote your website
via free listings at major search engines - Submit-it.com
- Do Market Research
- Competitor's Press Releases
- What are they telling the public about their
business?
- Competior's Website -
- compare the quality of their website
and the information & services it offers with your own public
presence on the web.
- Use web surveys to
capture and analyze user feedback.
- Do Technical Research
- Using popular search engines
- Using specific subject search engines.
- Download Technical Reference Manuals, illustrations,
reports from just about anywhere
(and, if they're not available now, they will be soon)
- Forum Discussions of Technical problems
- Internic Technical Reference
- Subscribe to special interest news alerts
- Jesse
Bert's Anchor Desk from Ziff Davis Publishing's ZDNET
A must see for web news, trends and website developer-specific technical
information
- Network World's Infusion
updates on Web Technical issues (network specific)
- American Airlines - Netsavers
- special limited-access discount airfares
Use the inexpensive resource
of the web from within your organization to:
- Coordinate Projects
around the world, in real time, with full access to graphical or numeric
data
- "Publish" a page to share during
a phone conversation. - and do it a price we can all easily afford.
- Automate training and
regulatory compliance
- Customer
Satisfaction Surveys
- Find out why your satisfied customers
like your product or service.... and
why the others don't! (analysis & interpretation of the results may
just give you more answers than there were questions!)
- General Market Research - Receive very valuable
feedback from a limited, but growing, and well-known market.
- Do Web Surveys online - GAUSA.com/surveys
- Learn how to use online surveys effecively
from the Internet Survey Experts at CustomerSat.com
- Create your own FREE online survey using
CustomerSat.com's free survey
system.
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