A Website Construction Guide for Visual Artists:

Links

Shareware.com and Tucows.com: 2 places to search for free software.

And if you haven't already, download Mozilla as your new browser. Internet Explorer and Safari are best relegated for testing the compatibility of new websites.

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Free text editors

SciTE (Windows)
HTML-Kit (Windows)
TextWrangler (Mac)
Smultron (Mac OSX Leopard)

Free Image editors

Gimp
PhotoPlus 6
Paint.NET
ImageForge
Seashore

Free FTP applications

Filezilla (Windows)
WinSCP (Windows)
Cyberduck (Mac)

Informational

Webopedia
Index of web design glossaries
ISO character entities

Color Guides

Webmonkey color code reference guide
December.com hexidecimal color guide
WellStyled color scheme page

Tutorials

NetMechanic tutorial topics
Webmonkey
Webmonkey for kids!
Eric Meyer: CSS
CSS layout techniques (this is more advanced)

A Dao of Web Design

Web video topics

Oreilly: Web video (preparation and embedding)
Embedded Media HTML Generator
Free Video Encoding (HTML generator)
Working with Flash (FLV) files

For fun

How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web
Advice for Satanic Web Page Design