I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain

This Web Site is for hobbyist web designers and folks new to html, Java or CSS with an emphasis on FREE resources on the Internet. I have included various tutorials and links to web designer aides as well.
In addition I have included links to FREE versions of popular, and expensive, programs.


Sample Java Pages

Each of the pages below contain 1 or 2 JAVA scripts plus music, gifs and more. The pop-up display shows an example of what they look like. Click on the link to see the page in motion. To copy just go to: View => Source.


Screen Capture from Auto Scroll Script
Script 1, Automatic Scrolling Page
Page automatically 'scrolls' top to bottom

Screen Capture from Interactive Light Script
Script 2, Interactive Light Script
Lets the user turn on multiple lights on any image, may require Internet Explorer

Screen Capture from Puzzle building site
Script 3, Dragging Objects Script
Allows you to drag images or text around the screen

Screen Capture from Hyper Drive site
Script 4, Hyper Drive, R to L
Gives the illusion of motion as `stars' fly past R to L
Space ship image is attached to cursor via `bungee cord`

Screen Capture from Coming from center screen site
Script 5, Coming toward you script
Objects appear in center of screen and come toward viewer

Screen Capture from Bungee script site
Script 6, Bungee script with objects rising
The shark is on a bungee cord to the cursor while bubbles rise, all with an animated gif background

Screen Capture from snow falling site
Script 7, Classic snow falling script
Plus a second 'snow' falling that's just .....'s.
You will need to download an additional script from here.

Screen Capture from lightning script
Script 8, Random lightning `Bolts` script
Generates a random lightning bolt.

Writing html

Kompozer
The best free html editor around

Here`s a good tutorial for using Kompozer.

Real-time html Editor
Just paste your code in the top box
and the web page appears at the bottom, now edit in real-time!

html Dashboard
Not enough links here for you, no problem!

html Tutorial
Good step-by-step introduction

html Goodies
For more advanced coding

html Converter
Convert your html code for display
on message Boards and web pages

JAVA and Java script

JAVA and Java script defined

Dynamic Drive JAVA scripts
Where I get all these page animations

Here`s a JAVA site if you really want to get into it

The ultimate JAVA Site

Writing CSS

Simple pop-up image CSS script

CSS Editor
Educational way to learn CSS

CSS Tutorial
Good step-by-step introduction

More detailed CSS Tutorial

Graphics Resources

Free Image Editor
With many powerful tools

On-line gif Maker
Make animated gifs on-line

On-line Rounder
Round off the corners of your images on-line

On-line Background pattern maker
Design your own `seamless` backgrounds on-line

On-line Banner Maker
Like the one above with dozens more styles

On-line Image Map Maker
Turn pictures into Image maps with clickable links

On-line Wavy effect
Add a wavy effect to any image

Photobucket
Store your images to share on Blogs and Message Boards
Make cool slide show too

Slide show
Another on-line slide show maker

Free on-line video editing tool

gifs and more gifs

Mikes gifs
Best gif site I know (MIDI music clips too!)

Star Wars gifs
LOTS of Star Wars gifs

Here`s another great site Twisted Submissions

Lots of curtsy gifs at Heathers Animations

Well organized GIFS here

Lots to look at here

These are alphabatised

More and More

Web Designer Aides

216 color chart
A web designers best friend

216 colors not enough?
How about 4096

Free web site hosting at webs.com

Open With...
Open any file extension with free tool

Place a custom cursor on your web page.

How to submit your site to Google

Free Page Hit Counter
With good stat breakdowns

Free Hot Link checker
Check to see if all your hot links are still active

Case Sensitive Web Search
Did you know Google admits it's search is `case-insensitive`

Playlist music player
Create a song list and embed on your page

Internet Acronyms Dictionary
Ever wonder what ROFLOL means?

More FREE Odds & Ends

Ubuntu Operating System
For the Anti-Windows crowd

Open Office
For the Anti-Microsoft Office crowd

Skype.com
Make free video internet calls with this free software

ManyCam.com
Add fun special effects to your Skype calls

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

Want to make these Flying things go away?

Just click on one!

(If you can!)

Last Modified 2-12-2010
Thanks for visiting
Robert Grout

You are visitor
From StatCounter.com