Tips & Tutorials

Graphics
TransWeb Transparent-Gif Service
NetMechanic Gif Bot
Reduce the size of your images. You identify the image you want reduced/optimized. Several optimized versions of your image will be produced. The revised images will be displayed on a results page.

HTML
The Five-Minute HTML Quick Start!
A Beginner's Guide to HTML
HTML for Beginners
HTML: An Interactive Tutorial For Beginners
The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
Composing Good HTML
HTML Tags
Symbol Table (HTML Escape Sequence Table)
HTML Tables
HTML 4.0: Tables
How Did They Do That with HTML?
XML - What's in it for us?
XML Set To Change The Face Of E-Commerce

Imagemaps
Client-Side Imagemap vs. Server-Side Imagemap
How to Create an Imagemap

Site Promotion/Marketing
Search Engines
Before you begin submitting your site to search engines, make sure to include META tags on all of your pages. META tag description and keywords should not exceed 200 characters each per page.

Listed below are search engines that you can submit your site to:

Canada.com
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EuroSeek
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Google
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LookSmart
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MSN Microsoft Search
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RealNames^SM
A RealName^SM is an easier way to find Web sites using everyday language.

Searchopolis
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Snap.com
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WebCrawler
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Tips to Improve Ranking

Yahoo!
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Understanding Search Engines
Search Engine Watch
Search Engine Forums

Banner Exchange Programs—Refer to Banner Creators for help in creating your banner ad.
bannerco-op.com
LinkExchange
Looksmart Clicks
BannerExchange.com

Search Engine Placement Tools
did-it.com Detective
Checks the search engines and directories to determine if your site has been indexed.

Dr. Watson
Dr. Watson is a free service to validate your Web page on the Internet.

Meta builder 2
Generate META tags suitable for inclusion in your HTML document. These tags allow better indexing by robot-driven search engines, such as AltaVista, Infoseek, and HotBot.

NetMechanic: Power Tools for Your Web Site
Check your links, HTML, page load time, spelling, and more (for free)!

Net Mechanic Check Server
Tests your server every 15 minutes for the next eight hours. When done, it reports performance and reliability.

NetPromote Internet Promotion
Analyze your Web site's position on these popular search engines and directories: Alta Vista, OpenText, Magellan, Yahoo, Excite, HotBot, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Lycos, LinkStar, Galaxy and the YellowPages.

WebPosition Gold
WebPosition Gold helps rank your site higher with search engines.

Position Agent
Find out how your page ranks in search engines, and find out how to move your site up in the listings.

Weblint
Weblint scans through your document and reports any problems that it finds with your HTML formatting.

Web Site Garage
Tune up your Web site for FREE! It will diagnose common problems in Web site maintenance.