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Web Page Building and HTML Tips and Tutorials

• WebReference.com - WebReference is the definitive guide to web development with tutorials on all aspects of web design. With free computer software in java script, dynamic html and perl, plus free web-based authoring tools you too can create a top 100 site.
• Gilpo's How To Make Links
• D.J. Quad's Ultimate HTML Site
• HTML Goodies

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Web Hosting

There are tons of free web hosts. Way too many to list here. Instead of listing free web hosts I am giving you a few links that specialize in hosts. You can search for a web host by your criteria (cost, free, cgi-bin, space, data-transfer, etc.). These also have links to domain registrars.

• TopHosts.Com
• Web Hosting List
• HostSearch

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Site Building Tools

Listed here are some free tools to help you build and upload your website.

• Trellian WebPAGE - Trellian WebPAGE allows you to create your own web pages without having to learn complex scripting languages. WebPAGE's WYSIWYG interface makes editing pages as easy as using your favorite word processor. Many features, and it's free!
• Amaya - Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes equipped with a WYSIWYG style of interface, similar to that of the most popular commercial browsers. With such an interface, users do not need to know the HTML or CSS languages..
• 1st Page 2000 - Free HTML Editor that comes bundled with over 450+ Javascripts and some perl and cgi scripts. If you have a host with a cgi-bin you will have instant scripts. This site also has several great utilities for webmasters like a meta-tag generator, search-engine submit and link popularity checker.
• EasyHTML - Free HTML Editor.
• Arachnophilia Home Page - A HTML Editor that is completely free.
• AceHTML - Free HTML Editor with many features.
• TopStyle Lite - A free CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) editor.
• AceFTP 3 - Free FTP (File Transfer Protocol) utility for uploading files.
• WS_FTP LE - The Limited Edition version of WS_FTP Pro. Great FTP utility.

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Graphics

• Babe's Free Hawg Graphics - My own site, it was the very first free graphics site for bikers. I add more graphics whenever possible, but my time has been limited lately. Just keep checking. Included are backgrounds, background sets, buttons, animations, text graphics, skull graphics, bars and many more categories with hundreds of graphics.
  There are also tips and help pages for AOL members and WebTV users.
• Bernie's Harley Backgrounds & Wallpaper
• Knuckleheads
• Shars Graphic Studio
• LaLoba's Hole-in-the-Web
• Silverhawks Free Native American Graphics

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Graphics Tools

• Mix-FX - Mix & match your own effects with Mix-FX! Want to create amazing Flashy text effects and flash buttons, but don't have Macromedia Flash or don't know how to use it for complex animations? Don't worry, Mix-FX comes to your rescue. This simple-to-use program lets you create absolutely stunning effects in just seconds. What is Mix-FX? It's a text and background effect animator. With Mix-FX, you can create hundreds of different effect combinations. Change sizes and colors and you have millions of possibilities! Import the effect you just created into Flash, into your PowerPoint presentation, directly onto your website,into your video editing software or for professional broadcasting. In Mix-FX what you see is what you get. Customize effects by changing the settings and see the results immediately! No Flash software required!
  Click Here to see samples I made. They are free to use on your pages too!

• Banner Maker Pro - Banner Maker Professional is an easy to use tool that creates professional looking banners and buttons for web pages in just minutes. Simply follow the wizard like interface to create banner ads or buttons. Many options and features.
• Ulead GIF Animator Lite Edition - A special free version of the award-winning Ulead GIF Animator. GIF Animator Lite has all the features of Ulead GIF Animator 1.0, plus a few more. And it does not come with a time bomb. Download free.
• Gif Works - This online tool does many things, optimizes images, flips, adds filters and more to your pictures and graphics.
• TransWeb Transparent-GIF Service - Make backgrounds of graphics transparent on-line.
• Cooltext.com: Online Graphics Generator  - A Cool on-line text generator that just got better. Includes button maker, and bar and bullet generator too.
• 3D Text Maker - Online Text Generator
• FlamingText.com - Flaming Text generator.... and much more.

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Image Software

Online Programs
Online programs allow you to convert image formats, resize images and even apply filters.
There are fewer and fewer online programs and they seem to come and go. If any of the following links are dead please let me know.

• TheDreaming.com Online Image Converter - Free. A very simple easy to use image converter online.
• Professional Online Graphic Editor and Optimizer From Graphics Factory.com - You can easily edit any image with no experience at all! Even your hamster could do it! Instantly modify your image: Add text--great for buttons and interfaces. Resize images. Convert image formats; works with .gif, .jpg, .bmp, and .png files.Optimize images (makes them load faster and saves disk space). Add special effects (Blur, Solarize, Twirl, etc...).
  

  
  Software you can Download
  Most of these require purchase but many have a free Trial.

• ImageMagick - ImageMagickTM 6.0.2 is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 89 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image or image sequence and save your completed work in the same or differing image format.
• Omniformat - OmniFormat is a free document conversion utility which allows dynamic conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats including HTML, DOC, XLS, WPD, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX and MPEG.
• Jans Freeware Graphics Programs - Formati 11 is a (batch) graphics file converter; load formats: bmp, gif, jpg, png, wmf, emf, ico, icl, bmp, tga, tif, pcx, pcd, psd, psp, ppm, sgi, cut and eps; save formats: bmp, gif, jpg, png, tif, tga, ico and icl. Features: 34 effects including buttonize and seamless; Shape and Text tool; Twain scan; GIF and JPG optimizer; overlays; screen capture; smart resize; turn; PNG alpha support (mask based variable transparency); adjustable blending of two images; scriptable drawing wizards (HTML+javascript); NEW: Icon Manager, create and edit (multi-image) icons and icon libraries; .
• Graphic Converter 2003 - Graphic Converter 2003 is a powerful tool to convert, process and view graphics. Graphic Converter 2003 is also a nice graphic editor. You can edit image directly using Graphic Converter. It has the ability to resize, rotate and produce a variety effects to the image.
• Graphic Converter - Graphic Converter is software for converting graphic formats. It supports reading graphics of BMP, DIB, JPG, JPEG, GIF, ICO, ICB, PCX, PCD, PSP, PBM, PGM, PSD, PPM, PSG, PNG, VST, VDA, EMF, WMF, TIF, TIFF, WBMP, RLE, SGI, and more. Support editing image with selection, resize, rotate, add canvas, and more. Support more than 50 filters like noise, contrast, soften, blur, sharpen, stretch, lightness, mosaic, gray scale, tweak, colorize, polarize, shake, swap, swirl, and more.
• 123 Graphic Converter - 123 Graphic Converter converts your image files to bmp, jpg, gif, png, tif... with only 3 clicks.

Webmaster Tools

• Bravenet is my personal favorite for free resources, I use their many services all over all of my websites. Counters, guestbooks, forums, chat rooms for your own site, greeting cards, voting polls, email forms, classifieds and much more. Easy to use, easy to configure, they really are the very best! They now have tons of other type resources as well as design tips.
• CGISpy.com - Free Remote CGI Hosting! - Great resources like classifieds, message boards, chat and much more.
• BikeStats.com - BikeStats.com is the first web statistics service to deal solely with motorcycle related websites. BikeStats.com is not just a counter. The service provides a detailed analysis including traffic reports, marketing reports, and visitor profile reports.
• Sitetracker - Track your site's hits and where they came from.
• Calendars Net is a free interactive web calendar hosting service, where you and anyone you choose (or everyone) can post events visible and printable by whomever you choose or everyone. You can post events that span more than one day (with text flowing across days or even weeks) or that recur every 1st and 4th Tuesday of each month, etc. Great for your online events calendar.
• LinkShare Referral Program - Join Link Share for access to hundreds of affiliates.Your site can make money.

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Site Promotion Tools

• Free Motorcycle Banner Exchange - You get more hits because your banners are only displayed on other motorcycle sites.
• LinkPopularity.com: The Free Link Popularity Service - This free service generates a custom Link Popularity Report, detailing which sites links to your URL.
• Meta Tag Generator - Type in your site's description and some keywords and it creates a cut and paste meta tag for your site. Much needed for search engines.
• LinkExchange - SiteInspector - Several tools to help your site.
• Add Me! - Submit your site to over 35 search engines at once.
• Meta Tag Analyzer and Meta Tag Help
• Search Engine Submission and Web Page Analyzer
• Recommend It - This service is a great promotional tool. Join, place the code on your site, and people can click a button to recommend it to a friend. Use mine and see how it works, and recommend it to a friend while you're at it!