Website Construction for Visual Artists

Some handy links

Free software searches

Shareware.com
Tucows.com

Free text editors

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

Free image editors

Gimp (Windows, Mac OSX)
PhotoPlus 6 (Windows)
Paint.NET (Windows)
ImageForge (Windows)
Seashore (Mac OSX)
Paintbrush (Mac OSX)

Free FTP applications

Filezilla (Windows, Mac OSX)
WinSCP (Windows)
Cyberduck (Mac OSX)

Informational

Webopedia
Web-design glossary
ISO character entities
Common fonts for web-design

Color guides

Hexadecimal color chart
Another hexadecimal color chart
4096 Color Wheel
Color Scheme Designer

Web-design tutorials

Webmonkey Web Basics
Lissa Explains It All
Eric Meyer: CSS
How to embed almost anything into your website
A Dao of Web Design

Web video topics

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

For fun

BgPatterns tiled backgrounds
How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web
Olia Lialina: Web Vernacular


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