WEB DESIGN RESOURCES-1

by Peter Y. Chou, Instructor for “HTML Web Publishing”
CTIS Division, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California

Color Resources:
Color Name, Hex Triplet, Color Swatch— http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~hill/colors.html
(138 colors from Alice Blue to Yellow Green neatly organized in a table with their hex triplet & color swatch)
141 Netscape Color Names— http://wsp2.wspice.com/sig/scox/netscape_color_chart.htm
(Color Names with Hex & RGB values)
The Other RGB Color Chart— http://203.229.239.1/rgb.html
(Arranged in Color Groups: Pastels, Grays, Blues, Greens, Yellows, Browns, Oranges, Pinks/Violets)
Colors for Web Pages— http://tips-tricks.com/colors.html
(Good tutorial & links on using 216 browser-safe colors)
Non-Dithering Colors by Hue— http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html
(Lynda Weinmann's Hue Color Chart of 216 browser-safe colors)
Non-Dithering Colors by Value— http://www.lynda.com/hexv.html
(Lynda Weinmann's Value Color Chart of 216 browser-safe colors)
Background Textures:
Controlling Document Backgrounds— http://www.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg
(Netscape's Tutorial on HTML foreground & background attributes)
Netscape's Background Sampler— http://www.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg/backgrounds.html
(63 textured tiles for downloading or linking)
Imagemaps:
Imagemaps— http://164.76.4.21/references/technology/web/imagmaps.html
(provided by the Art Department faculty of Eastern Michigan University)
Imagemap Help Page— http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Archive/text/html/web-map-101.hqx
(assistance with implementation of client-side imagemaps; downloads of Mapedit & WebMap)
Mac-ImageMap Homepage— http://weyl.zib-berlin.de/imagemap/Mac-ImageMap.html
(a freeware for mapping rectangular, elliptic, and polygon regions)
WebMap— http://home.city.net/cnx/software/webmap.html
(Rowland Smith's $25 shareware Mac program for creating imagemaps)
WebMap 1.0— http://www.gla.ac.uk/~gwm1h/webmap.hqx
(WebMap 1.0 by Rowland Smith: free download for the Mac; Open with StuffIt)
Map This— http://www.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/tc/mt
(freeware Windows program for creating imagemaps)
Mapedit— http://www.boutell.com/mapedit
(Thomas Boutell's $25 Windows shareware program)
JImageMap— http://www.download.com/mac/software/0,332,0-67820-s,1000.html?st.dl.search.results.tdtl
(a 100% Pure Java application for creating client-side & server-side image maps)
Convert Server-side to Client-side Imagemaps— http://www.popco.com/popco/convertmaps.html
(Convert CERN/NCSA Map Files into Netscape Clientside Maps)
How the Imagemap Mechanism Works— http://www.seqnet.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/mapmarker/current/doc_html/imgmapmech.html
(a pictorial 8-step explanation on how server-side imagemaps work)
Virtual Atlas using Image Maps— http://www.srl.rmit.edu.au/va/
(Shaun Ashdowne's Master Degree project, Dept. of Land Information, RMIT University, Australia.)
University of Virginia Campus Image Maps— http://minerva.acc.virginia.edu/Map/
(Building Locator using 10 image maps)
Gif Animation:
Yves Piguet's GifBuilder 0.5— http://iawww.epfl.ch/staff/yves.piguet/clip2gif-home/GifBuilder.html
(downloadable Mac freeware program, 277K)
Alchemy Mindworks' Gif Construction Set— http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html
(downloadable Windows shareware program for $20)
How to Get Animate— http://www.cnet.com/Content/Builder/Graphics/Webanim
(CNet's 7-step tutorial & tips on Animated Gifs)
John Warnock Gets Animated with GIF— http://www.adobe.com/studio/tipstechniques/GIFanimation/main.html
(A 9-step tutorial by Adobe's CEO using Illustrator, Photoshop, & GifBuilder)
Gif Animation Station— http://web2.airmail.net/nicktg/moving/index.html
(280 animated gifs indexed in 17 categories)