A Research Guide for Students by I Lee

A Virtual Library of Useful URLs
Arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification

000-005 Computers, Information & General Reference

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000 COMPUTERS, INFORMATION, & GENERAL REFERENCE

000 COMPUTERS, INTERNET & SYSTEMS

001.4 Nobel Prizes, Awards, Rewards (Prizes, etc.), Contests, Competitions
002 Books See also 028 Books and reading, (One Book Projects), (Reading interests), (Best books), (Best-book lists), (eBooks), (e-Books)
004 Computers, Computer literacy, Computer systems
004.03 Computer science - Dictionaries, (Computer terms), (Computer jargon), (Computers - Jargon), (Computers - Dictionaries)
004.67 Internet, World Wide Web (WWW)
  Add URL
  Affiliate Programs
  Anti-Virus, AntiVirus
  Colors, Color charts
  Domain name
  Downloads
  Free E-mail or Free email
  Free Internet Access
  Free/Low Cost Web hosting or Free/Low Cost Web sites
  Free Web storage space
  Internet Safety - Safe Surf
  Internet Service Providers (ISP)
  Internet Statistics
  Popup stoppers, Ad blockers
  Search engines
  Security and Spyware
  Spam
  Tools for Webmasters
  Win awards
005.13 Programming languages (Computers), Web designs, Java, JavaScript, Perl, (Regular expressions)
005.7 HTML (Document Markup Language)
006.3 Artificial intelligence (AI)
025.4 Dewey Decimal Classification, Classification - Books, Library of Congress Classification
025.5 Reference services, (Virtual libraries), Information services, (Useful URLs), (Best Web sites)
027 Libraries
027.071 Libraries - Canada
027.073 Libraries - United States
027.0973 Archives - United States, (Public records - Preservation)
027.8 School libraries, Elementary school libraries, High school libraries, (Secondary school libraries), (Junior high school libraries), (Children's libraries), (Libraries and students)
028 Books and reading, (Reading interests), (Best books), (Best-book lists), (eBooks), (e-Books)
030 Encyclopedias and dictionaries, (Glossaries), Almanacs, World records, (Records of achievement), Curiosities and wonders, (Wonders of the World)
031.2 Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc., (How to), (Learn to), (Tutorials)
050 Periodicals, (Magazines), (Journals)
060.4 Parliamentary practice, (Rules of order)
069 Museums
070 Newspapers, World news and newspapers, Canada - Newspapers, Canadian newspapers, (Canada - News) United States - Newspapers, American newspapers, (U.S. - News)
070.1 Television broadcasting of news, (TV broadcasting of news)
070.4 News agencies, Journalism, Broadcast journalism, (Commercial Journalism), (News broadcasting), (Wire agencies), (News services), (Radio journalism), (Radio news), (Television journalism), (Television news)
070.5 Publishers and publishing, Publishers' standard book numbers, International Standard Book Numbers, (I.S.B.N.), (ISBN), International Standard Serial Numbers, (I.S.S.N.), (ISSN)
090 Rare books, (Antiquarian books), (Book rarities), (Early printed books)

001.4 Nobel Prizes, Awards, Rewards (Prizes, etc.), Contests, Competitions

Air Miles from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Air Miles in Canada
Air Miles is now Avios in United Kingdom (changed to Avios in 2011)
Air Miles in Spain
Air Miles in the Netherlands
Air Miles in The Emirates (UAE - United Arab Emirates)
Air Miles in Qatar
Air Miles in Bahrain

The Nobel Prizes. Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prizes have been given for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. Site includes: Nobel Prize Quick Facts, Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) - Biography, Nobel Prize Lessons, and more.

The Nobel Prize Internet Archive. Choose a category to view past and present Nobel Prize Winners: Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Economics, Physiology & Medicine.

Pulitzer Prize from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Annual awards by Columbia University in New York City, for print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition.

The Pulitzer Prizes. Resources, Archives, History, Guidelines & Entry Forms.

002 Books

See also 028 Books and reading, (eBooks), (e-Books)

Audio Books - Free public domain audiobooks from LibriVox. Read by volunteers from around the world.

Books: Fiction and non-fiction book reviews, the latest book and publishing news and opinion, features, online literature and author interviews, and Paperback Book Reviews from Telegraph.co.uk.

Free Online Educational Resources from GrabOn. Contents include: Online Libraries / Free eBooks, Ebooks Free Download, Resources for School Students, Resources for College Students, Courses for Working Professionals, Resources for Everyone, Resources for Teachers, Resources to Learn English, Resources to Learn Mathematics, Coding Websites for Kids, Activity Websites for Kids, and Websites to Apply for Scholarships.

Gallery of Book Trade Labels. A labor of love by Greg Kindall, Seven Roads. A virtual collection of book trade labels, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries, used by publishers, printers, and binders around the world (including Japan & Mexico) to advertise their contributions. Each entry is digitally scanned from books found in research libraries such as the University of Utah Marriott Library - some labels date back to early 1800s.

Kobo Books. Over 5 million free eBooks. *5 million free eBooks is based on total Free books available.

Reading ebooks on a phone - 5 ways to make the most of it by Piotr Kowalczyk, Feb 19, 2017 from Ebook Friendly.

004 Computers, Computer literacy, Computer systems

A Brief History of Programming Languages by Alex Armstrong, 26 May 2013.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Health Center.
9 Things You Can Do to Prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
10 natural and home remedies for carpal tunnel syndrome by Hannah Nichols, Reviewed by Gerhard Whitworth, RN, from Medical News Today, 21 December 2018.
Overuse Injury Prevention from Stop Sports Injuries.

CompInfo: Find the Best Sources of Computer Information. Reference resource for computer information. Computer directories, computer software and computers.

Computer Technology Review (CTR).

PC Magazine: The Independent Guide to Technology. Computer, Software, Hardware and Electronics Reviews, Downloads, Solutions, News, Columns, and more.

Practically Networked Troubleshooting Guides. Networking, Internet Sharing, Wireless Network Security, Backgrounders, Tutorials, and more.

Universal Serial Bus - USB.org - About. Basic Information, So what does USB really do? Installing USB Support and Setting up USB Peripheral (Device) under Windows, USB Cables, Connectors, and Networking with USB, and USB On-The-Go (USB OTG).
USB: Everything You Need to Know from Lifewire. Everything you need to know about Universal Serial Bus, aka USB.

004.03 Computer science - Dictionaries, (Computer terms), (Computer jargon), (Computers - Jargon), (Computers - Dictionaries)

Find a Tech Definition from WhatIs.com. Tech Terms Computer Dictionary from TechTerms.com. The Ultimate Emoji Guide from EmojiGuide.org. Emoji guide with search, meanings, pictures and codes.

Glossary of IT Terms. Information Technology (IT) terms.

Information Technology - IT glossary: Tech terms, tools, and resources for kids from Western Governors University (WGU), January 20, 2020.

- Common computer use terms: Basic functions (Caret, Click, Cursor ...), Coding terms (Bit, Bug, Code, Command, Debugging ...), Logging on/off (Log-On/Log-Off, Passord, Username), On the desktop (Screensaver, Shortcut, Taskbar, Wallpaper), Data and memory terms (Kilobyte / Megabyte / Gigabyte, Operating System, Packets, Software ...).

- Physical parts of a computer: Computer components (CD/Blu-Ray Drive, Hard Disk Drive, Laptop, Motherboard, Solid State Drive (SSD), Sound Card, Universal Serial Bus (USB), Video Card ...), Input/output devices (Keyboard, Monitor, Mouse, Printer, Scanner, Speakers ...).

- Internet terms to know: Basic internet terms (Download, Email, Internet Service Provider (ISP), Network, Modem, Server, Surfing, Upload, Wi-Fi ...), Navigating the web (Bookmarks, Browser, Chat room, Homepage, Hyperlink, Instant Messaging, Universal Resource Locator (URL), Website ...), Internet safety terms (Antivirus Software, Cookie, Cyberbullying, Firewall, Malware, Phishing, Spam, Spyware, Virus ...).

The Most Common Acronyms Used Online. Learn what INB4, BAE, BTFO, and tons more acronyms stand for - by Wendy Boswell, Life Wire. Updated August 20, 2017.

PC Glossary: Definitions of Computer and Internet Terms from PC.net.

Webopedia. Online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology.

Whatis.com. IT encyclopedia and learning center. Browse A-Z listings of terms, or browse for definitions in categories: Software, Internet, Computing Fundamentals, Hardware, PCs, Networking, Telecom.

004.67 Internet, World Wide Web (WWW)

  Internet - General information
  Add URL
  Affiliate Programs
  Anti-Virus, AntiVirus
  Blog, Blogs, Blogging
  Colors, Color charts
  Domain name
  Downloads
  Free E-mail or email
  Free Internet Access
  Free/Low Cost Web hosting or Free/Low Cost Web sites
  Free Web storage space
  Internet Safety - Safe Surf
  Internet Service Providers (ISP)
  Internet Statistics
  Popup stoppers, Ad blockers
  Safe surf
  Search engines
  Security and Spyware
  Spam
  Tools for Webmasters
  Win awards

004.67 Internet, World Wide Web (WWW) - General information

Bare Bones 101. A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web from the University of South Carolina, Beaufort Library. Includes BCK2SKOL Lessons - Back to School: The Electronic Library Classroom 101. A Class on the Net for Librarians with Little or No Net Experience.

Tim Berners-Lee, from Google image, orig. 800 x 539 pixels - 58k, www.ethlife.ethz.ch/images/cern_1990-l.jpg
Tim Berners-Lee, a young British scientist,
working as a consultant for CERN, 1990
    Tim Berners-Lee, from http://www.w3.org/Consortium/
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director
and inventor of the World Wide Web

Berners-Lee - Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee - Biography from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Born June 8, 1955 in London, Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He is sometimes called "TimBL" or "TBL". See also Tim Berners-Lee, Director - at Who's Who at the W3C, Tim's Homepage includes Answers for Young People - FAQ for Kids, his bio, email address, snail mail address, latitude, longitude, direction on how to get there, phone, FAX, PGP fingerprint, essays and articles, e.g. A one-page personal history of the web (1998/5/7).

The Birth of the Web. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. See also World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Where the web was born. What are CERN's greatest achievements? The World Wide Web. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, derived from the French Conseil Europ?en pour la Recherche Nuclaire or European Council for Nuclear Research.

Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web (Paperback) by Tim Berners-Lee


  Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
  (Paperback) by Tim Berners-Lee



Facebook. A social utility that connects you with the people around you. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. Facebook from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Free ebook: 47 Handy Facebook Stats and Charts. Do you know the best time to engage with your customers on Facebook? Learn this and more in this free ebook from HubSpot.

A Guide to VoIP History - The Rise of VoIP. Site provides key events in the VoIP history. VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol.

Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents. Free download of weblog advice handbook from Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières).
What Is a Blog? By Artem Minayev. Blog basics. A blog is a frequently updated online personal journal or diary. It is a place to express yourself to the world. A place to share your thoughts and your passions.

How to Speak Internet 101 (ft. Will Smith). YouTube video, 6:05 min. by Lilly Singh, 23 Dec. 2017. "Welcome to Internet 101 where I teach people like Will Smith how to speak the language."

It's a Wonderful Internet. Watch this animated movie to see what the world might be like without the Internet. Originally from Nurun / Ant Farm Interactive. YouTube video, 5:09 min.

MySpace from Wikipedia, the free enclopedia.

Ning - Create Your Own Social Networks! Online service where you can create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free.

Add URL

Add Your Web Site to ASR. Active Search Results (ASR) is an independent Internet Search Engine using a proprietary page ranking technology with Millions of popular Web sites indexed.

Best Free Directories - Free Web Site Submission Directory Rankings from WebSubmissionKing.com.

FREE Search Engine Submission. Free URL submission to top Search Engines from Web Launch.

Free Web Submission: Free Search Engine Submission and Site Promotion. Provides webmasters and site owners with free manual and auto submission to highest-rated, free internet search engines and directories.

FREE URL Submission - Submit your site to dozens of top search engines for FREE.

How to Submit Your Website to Search Engines (Hint: You Don't Always Need To) byJoshua Hardwick, Ahrefs Pte Ltd., September 4, 2018.

Google. Submit your site to Google. "Only the top-level page from a host is necessary; you do not need to submit each individual page. Our crawler, Googlebot, will be able to find the rest."

Google Tips on Submission & Ranking. Google's Page Rank Technology. Submit your web site to google, learn about link popularity, google SEO & getting ranked.

Scrub the Web - Free URL Submissions - Easy Submit. Free submit URL to scrubtheweb.com.

SEO Company Los Angeles

Submit Express. Submit your URLs to be listed in Search Engines, manually or automatically with one entry. Free.

Yahoo! Submit Your Site to Bing and Yahoo!

Affiliate Programs

Affiliate Programs. Guide to affiliate programs on the Web.

Anti-Virus, AntiVirus

5 Best Free Antivirus Software for 2020 | Top Picks for Windows 10 PCs (NEW). YouTube video, 15:21 min. Published by The Cyber Lab, April 2, 2020.

AV Comparatives. Independent Tests of Anti-Virus Software.

AVG Anti-Virus. Essential protection that detects, blocks and removes viruses and malware - all for free.

avast! Home Edition Free Antivirus Download. Free registration.

Best FREE Antivirus Test 2013 by Britec. 19:54 min. Infected files detected by Avast 110, Avira 78, AVG 107, Bitdefender 63, MSE 24, Comodo 114.

p>ClamWin Free Antivirus. ClamWin: Free antivirus software for Windows.

CNET Downloads. Free software downloads and software reviews.

AVG vs Avast. YouTube video, 40:47 min. Published on Dec 22, 2013.

Panda Free Anti-Virus. "The cloud technology is based on Panda's Collective Intelligence. It can run constantly, providing protection against viruses and malicious websites but slowing the system to some extent, or do a system scan." ~ Wikipedia.

Top 5 Free Anti-Virus Review (2014). YouTube video, 10:09 min. Posted on Feb 4, 2014 by itvraag. Content of this video:
1. Importance of Anti-Virus
2. Free or Paid
3. Avast
4. Panda
5. Avira
6. AVG
7. Bitdefender
8. Mobile Devices
9. Conclusion

HouseCall. Trend Micro's free online virus scanner.

McAfee FreeScan detects thousands of viruses on your computer, searches for viruses and displays a detailed list of any infected files. Create an account to login.

McA fee Virus Information Library. Includes Virus Alerts, Anti-Virus Updates, Find Virus Alphabeticaly, Newly Discovered Viruses, Free Downloads of Beta AntiVirus Software, and more.

Real Viruses and Worms and what to do if you've been infected, advice from ScamBusters.org. See also Stop Computer Viruses in Their Tracks, Stop Spam! Internet ScamBustersTM: 809 Area Code Scam, 90# Telephone Scam, or "nine-zero-pound" phone scam, and other helpful advice.

Symantec Security Response. Search for Viruses Alphabetically in this Virus Encyclopedia from Symantec. Expanded Threat List provides a synopsis of the latest virus-related threats discovered by Symantec Security Response.

Threat Fire AntiVirus. Formerly Cyberhawk, now PC Tools ThreatFire. Behavioral Virus and Spyware Protection.

Trend Micro security predictions for 2020.
Glossary of Virus Terms A-Z from Trend Micro.
● Tools for Webmasters include Free Tools, Apps, and Trials.
Threat Encyclopdia: Web Attacks, Malware, Vulnerabilities, Spam, Malicious URLs.
HouseCall. Free Online Virus Scan.

Vmyths.coMisconceptions about genuine threatsm: Truth About Computer Security Hysteria. Hoaxes, myths, urban legends: Hoax virus alerts, and more.

Blog, Blogs, Blogging

16 Top Tips from Blogging Experts for Beginners by Belle Beth Cooper, Team Buffer, Jul 30, 2013.

17 Blogging Tips For Beginners (That Actually Work) by Si Quan Ong, Ahrefs, Jan. 27, 2021.

25 Best Blog Templates of 2021 by Rebecca Strehlow, Marketing Expert and Blogger, WIX Blog, Mar. 2021. "As a professional blogger, I can tell you that a beautiful layout is just as important as the text itself. A big part of creating a blog involves thinking carefully about how to display your content."

From the Experts: 20 Great Blogging Tips for 2021. Tutorials by Kasee Bailey, DreamHost, Jan. 8, 2021.

How to Start a Blog From scratch, in 20 minutes, step-by-step. Guide by Karen Evans. Last updated: January 15, 2017, StartBloggingOnline.com

How to Start a Blog in 12 Easy Steps by Lars Lofgren, April 29, 2020.

How to Start a Blog in 2021 - Create a Blog in 20 Minutes by Scott Chow, The Blog Starter, Mar. 12, 2021.

How to Start a Blog: The Beginner's Guide to Creating a Successful Blog in 2021 by Anya Skrba, FirstSiteGuide, Mar. 30, 2021. First Site Guide is a free resource that is 100% supported by readers.

Colors, Color charts

The Sixteen Named Colors - All Codes. 16 color names for use in an HTML attribute. Defined by the hexadecimal code and sorted by hue, saturation, and light. Each color's RGB (Red Green Blue) hexadecimal code is shown as well as its RGB decimal code, RGB percent code, HSL (Hue, Saturation, Light) code, and the CMYK code (percent values for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and blacK values of the color).

17 Named Colors with numerical RGB specification from World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). List of color keywords: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, orange, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow.

The 216-Color Webmaster's Palette or Webmaster's Color Lab. Click on the color of your choice, see display of color and details of hexadecimal codes. Quick selection of color for your Webpage.

500+ Colours. Page lists over 500 colours by colour name, Hex value, RGB value and Microsoft Access code number.

4096 Color Wheel. Version 2.1 by Jemima Pereira.

Browser-Safe Colors from Baruch College, City University of New York. Browser-safe colors are expressed as amounts of RED, GREEN and BLUE in hexadecimal code (HEX) and always in this order.

The Browser Safe Palette (BSP). Victor Engel's No Dither Netscape Colors.

Color Blend Charts. Collection by Elaine Chevrefils, Pinterest.

Color Chart from color-chart.org.

Color Chart - Color Slider (RGB to Hexidecimal Converter) from CalculatorCat.com.

Color Converter. This free color converter gives you the hexadecimal values of your RGB colors (HEX to RGB) and vice versa (RGB to HEX).

Color Hexa. Color encyclopedia: Information and conversion. ColorHexa.com is a free color tool providing information about any color. Type any color values in the search field and ColorHexa will offer a detailed description and automatically convert it to its equivalent value in Hexadecimal, Binary, RGB, CMYK, HSL, HSV, CIE-Lab, Hunter-Lab, CIE-Luv, CIE-LCH, XYZ and xyY. ColorHexa will also generate matching color schemes such as complementary, split complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic and monochromatic colors.

ColorPicker.com. Quick online color picker tool. HTML color codes. Generate Color Scheme: Complementary, Triade, Tetrade, Analogic.

Color Slider: RGB to Hexidecimal Converter from CalculatorCat.com.

Color Table (Internet Explorer) from Microsoft Developer Network.
Basic HTML Color Names.
Colors by Hue.
Colors by Name.

Flat UI Color Picker. Best Flat Colors for UI Design. Choice of ALL, RED, PINK, PURPLE, BLUE, GREEN, YELLOW, ORANGE, GRAY, or NEW Colors. New Flat UI Colors.
Flat UI Colors. Choose a format, e.g. HEX, RGB, etc. Click on a color, code will automatically be copied.
Bootflat Color Picker. Bootflat Flat UI color picker is a project digging the Flat Color Picker which gives you the perfect colors for flat designs.
Flat Colors. Largest collection of flat colors on the internet. Over 11,000 flat colors.

Hex Color Chart Grid. One page chart. Color Chart One-Page View. More One Page Hex Color Charts.

Hex Color Codes from HexColorTool. Hex is a 6-digit, 24 bit, hexidecimal number that represents Red, Green, and Blue. An example of a Hex color representation is #123456, 12 is Red, 34 is Green, and 56 is Blue. There are 16 million possible colors.

Hex Color Codes or Hexadecimal Color Codes from December.com. "This page demonstrates the six-digit hexadecimal representation of color of the form #RRGGBB, where RR, GG, and BB are the hexadecimal values for the red, green, and blue values of the color. Using a hexadecimal code is the most reliable of the several ways you can define colors in HTML or style sheets."

Hex Hub (Named Hexadecimal Color Codes for HTML).
Hues Hub (Nameless Hexadecimal Color Codes for HTML).
Quick Reference of Color Tables include 16 named colors, 216 safe colors, 12 soft colors, 147 Scalable Vector Graphics named colors, 267 blocks of the Universal Color Language, and more.

HSL Color Picker from WorkWithColor. Color Picking: It is recommended to use the sequence - Hue - Lightness - Saturation. For a new color, it is recommended to begin with a saturation value of 100%.

Color Schemer.
Color Converter.
Color Names.
Photography Gray Card. Download a printable gray card to obtain natural colors in photos.
1-2-3 Image Resizer. Quickly resize pictures.
Color Theory. Color Theory Introduction, Colors of the Rainbow, Color Vision, Color Properties / Terminology, The Color Wheel, Color Space and Gamut.

HTML Color Codes by Dixon & Moe. Get HTML color codes, Hex color codes, RGB and HSL values with our color picker, color chart and HTML color names. Color Picker. Color Chart. Color Names. HTML & CSS Tutorials. Resources: Tools and tricks from around the web. What are HTML color codes? List of common HTML color codes.

HTML Color Chart: Click on any color square to get its HTML color code.
HTML Color Picker: Move the horizontal slider to chose color and then click into color square to get HTML color code.
HTML Color Codes Theory: HTML Codes format, Meaning of symbols, Examples.
HTML Color Codes and Names from Computer Hope.
Web Color Chart Hexadecimal HTML from VisiBone.
HTML Color from Quackit.
HTML Color Codes: Color Picker, Color Chart, Basic HTML Color Codes
HTML Color Code Chart from HTML.am.
HTML Color Names from W3Schools.
Best Color Palette Generators from HTML Color Codes.

Material UI. Click-To-Copy color palette of Material Design Colors, Flat UI Colors, Social Media Colors, Metro Colors, HTML Colors (140 Named Colors), Material UI Icons, Unicode Characters used as icons.

HTML and CSS color codes - hexadecimal.
HTML and CSS color codes - decimal.

Decimal Red, Green, Blue, and Opacity Color Codes from December.com. This page demonstrates the decimal representation of color of the form rgba(R,G,B,a), where R, G, and B are the decimal values for the red, green, and blue values of the color on the range 0 to 255 and a is the opacity of the color (a = 0 = transparent; a = 1 = opaque).

Web Designer's Color Hexagon from VisiBone.com.

RGB Color Codes Chart from Rapid Tables. RGB color picker | RGB color codes chart | RGB color space | RGB color format and calculation | RGB color table.

Web colors from Wikipedia. Converting RGB to hexadecimal, HTML color names, X11 color names, Web-safe colors, Color table, CSS colors.

Web Colors - HTML Color Codes by VisiBone. 216 web color codes. Hexadecimal codes can be used in both XHTML and CSS. Decimal color codes can be used in CSS and most graphics tools.

Domain name

leaf .CA Registration. You can register a (.ca) domain name for 1 to 10 years, and choose from 2 to 50 characters for your domain name. Site also provides answers to such General Questions as: What is a Domain Name? What is the Domain Name System (DNS)? Who can register .CA Domain Name? What is a Top-Level Domain Name?

leaf Canadian Domain Name Services. Answers to questions about Domain Name System, Nameservers, Domain Name Registration, Modifying Domain Name Record, Official CIRA Registration Documents, CIRA Canadian Presence Requirements, CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority) Registrant Agreement, and Registration Rules.

Cheap Domain Registration and Cheap Web Hosting. FAQ section answers many questions on domain name, General Information on What is a Domain Name? Domain Name Extensions, Registering and Transferring a Domain Name, Parking and Unparking a Domain Name, Fowarding and Hosting a Domain Name, Managing a Domain Name Account, and the Whois Function.

leaf CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority): Who can register a .CA domain name? FAQ: Canadian Presence Requirements, Find a Registrar, FAQ: Rules for Registration, FAQ: Registrar's Role.

Domain.com.

Domain Name Guide. Information covered: Buying and selling domain names, Domain FAQ, Glossary, Domain name search, Registration of domain names, Registrar system, Register and protect a domain name, Administrative tasks, and Registration FAQ.

New Domains are changing the internet from Name.com. "The days of choosing between a handful of generic domains are behind us ... New Domains range from business-focused extensions like .MARKET to offbeat domains like .NINJA, and offer some distinct advantages over traditional domain choices.

10 things you MUST know before you register domain with anyone from EasyDNS.com.

Easy Whois - easyWhois. Quickly lookup a domain name's Whois Record for any domain. See also IP Lookup and What Is My IP? Provides Address Block Information.

Go Daddy. Domain name search. Enter a domain name to instantly check its availability. Provides option to private registration through Domains By Proxy to keep personal information private, i.e. no personal information is made public but still able to retain benefits of domain ownership.

Register.com. Most popular domains: .com .us .info .org .co .ca .net .biz .tv. Additional Domains: .ac .academy .accountant .accountants .actor .adult .agency .airforce .amsterdam .apartments .archi .army .art .asia .associates .at .attorney .auction .audio .auto .autos .band .bar .bargains, and hundreds more. Register your domain name. Check out Pricing, Rules, and FAQ regarding Domain Name Registration. Check to see who has registered any Web address: WHOIS Lookup.

Whois Lookup.

List of country top-level domains. Nowadays, 243 national top-level domains are assigned, with 195 of them reserved for independent countries and 48 are owned by dependent territories. The worldwide known country code domain names (ccTLDs) are .us, .uk, .de, .eu. They are commonly used, on a par with the generic top-level domains (gTLDs) .com, .org, .net.

Country-Code Top Level domains (ccTLDs) from Wikipedia.org.

Search WHOIS from Network Solutions. Look up a domain name in WHOIS for .com, .net, and .org, find information on domain owner's address, nameserver, IP address, domain expiration date, creation date, registration changed date, person (full name of registrant), address, phone, and e-mail of domain registrant. Some info may not be available if the domain's privacy is protected.

Top 10 BEST Domain Registrars in 2021 (How to Buy a Domain) from Guru99.

Top 50 Domain Name Extensions from Website Magazine.

ICANN WHOIS Search from ICANN. WHOIS is the system that asks the question, who is responsible for a domain name or an IP address? ICANN's WHOIS Lookup gives you the ability to lookup any generic domains, such as "icann.org" to find out the registered domain holder.

Whois Domain Lookup. Whois search for Domain and IP.

Downloads

Note: All downloads at your own risk. Read disclaimer carefully.

Adobe Reader Download. Download Adobe Acrobat Reader. Note: Since Adobe no longer supports Flash Player after December 31, 2020 and blocked Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems.

Apple QuickTime Download.

The Best Free Music Download Sites by Evan Dashevsky, PCMag.
Royalty-free music from GettyImages. High-quality music and audio clips, all with flexible, easy-to-understand usage rights.
7 Best Royalty Free Music Sites for YouTube Video Creators from TheTechReviewer.
Royalty Free Music by Bensound. Read Licensing.
Royalty Free Music from HookSounds. Music on HookSounds is released free of copyrights under Creative Commons. You may download and use it in a wide variety of uses.

The Best Free Software of 2022 by Eric Griffith, PC Magazine, Apr 12, 2022. Everything you need to be productive and secure on your PC is on this list, and it's all totally free.

BestShareware.net. Shareware and free software download, including Registry Cleaner, Spyware-Adware Remover, AntiVirus, Firewall, Video DVD, Audio, MP3, games, and more.

Brave Browser - Download. Over 19 million people are using Brave today (Feb. 4, 2021). A Browser Built to Perform - 3x faster. 1 hour more of battery life. 33% less memory usage. Speed past Chrome today. After switching to Brave and tried it for 3 weeks, Brave is now my top choice of browser because "Privacy is Brave's default priority. Even on initial startup, Brave sends the fewest requests to other websites. Automatically, Brave Shields block third-party trackers and unwanted ads." ~ Which Private Browser is Best for Private Browsing?

CCleaner - Crap Cleaner free software download - Spyware Free. Excellent utility. Highly recommended.

Chrome Remote Desktop connects you to your devices using the latest web technologies.

CNET Download.com. Free downloads: Business, Education, Games, Internet, Multimedia and Design, Development Tools, Utilities, Drivers, etc.

Drivers Headquarters: Software Drivers and Hardware Drivers. Free driver detective scan. Let Driver Detective determine which of your drivers are out of date.

Evernote for Windows. Download Now It's free. Remember Everything.

Free Downloads Center. Over 30,000 software titles available for free download. Free software downloads, free game downloads, free anti-virus downloads, free popup blocker or popup stopper downloads, free spyware removal programs.

Glary Utilities. One-click maintenance. System Optimizer and Registry Cleaner. CNET review: "It cleans unwanted junk files and removes invalid and broken shortcuts, freeing up valuable disk space. Its Registry cleaner allows you to scan, remove, and back up faulty Registry entries. You also can wipe out online and Windows traces, although Internet Explorer is the only browser in which this function is supported."

Jumble.com. Big-time downloads for PC, Linux, and Mac.

MajorGeeks.com - Download Freeware and Shareware Computer Utilities. Major Geeks has always tested files before making them available for quality and to make sure no parasites are bundled (spyware, trojans, viruses, etc). At the root of MajorGeeks are files for your computer that tweak, repair, back-up, enhance, protect and more. Must Have Free Downloads. Choose from list of top freeware and shareware computer utilities.

MajorGeeks Top Freeware Picks by Timothy Tibbetts, Dec 26, 2021.

Microsoft.com Download Center. Check out Top 10 Downloads and the next 40 most popular downloads. Internet Explorer Downloads. The new Microsoft Edge was built to bring you the best of the web, with more control and more privacy as you browse.

Mike Lin's Internet Utilities - Free Downloads. Mike Lin has provided useful Windows freeware since 1998.

Mozilla - Home of the Firefox Web Browser and Thunderbird E-mail Client. Free Download.

NONAGS. Free software. Downloads that will not nag you to buy upgraded versions and will not limit the number of days you can use the software. Everything in the Freeware section is really free.

OpenOffice.org - Download Free Office Suite. Product is free to download, use, and distribute.

Opera Web Browser Download.

PCMag.com - PC Downloads. PC Magazine Shareware Library: Freeware and Shareware Downloads. The Best Tune-Up Utilities for 2021 by Jeffrey L. Wilson, PC Magazine, Feb. 3, 2021. If your PC suffers from slow boot times, system crashes, or other computing ills, download a tune-up utility. These PC-enhancing tools represent the best utilities we've tested for injecting new life into a well-used Windows PC.

RealPlayer Free Download.

SnapFiles. Download freeware and shareware software programs, fully reviewed and rated.

Top 10 Coolest Free Apps (You Absolutely Must Know About). YouTube video, 13:03 min. Published by ThioJoe, April 25, 2020. Valid for both Android and iPhone!
● 1. TV Time The world's largest tracking tool for TV + movies.
● 2. Citizen is a force for good in the world. Stay safe and aware.
● 3. pixabay short looping videos. Thousands of free stock video clips and footage.
● 4. Steam Chat apps on Google Play.
● 5. Arrive mobile app for iOS and Android devices.
● 6. 1.1.1.1. The free app that makes your Internet safer.
● 7. Tangi short instructional and educational videos.
● 8. Socratic Get unstuck. Learn better. Built to support Science, Math, Literature, Social Studies, and more. For students.
● 9. Apple COVID19. Apple's COVID-19 screener updated with new questions to gauge symptom severity.
● 10. Calm Find Your Calm. Sleep more. Stress less. Live better.

Windows Media Player Download from CNET Download.

WinZip. Download WinZip Evaluation Version.

ZDNet Downloads. How to download YouTube videos, How to download your Slack message history if you're not a channel admin, What to do when Chrome stops letting you download PDFs, Why you can't trust Instagram, How to convert a PDF to Excel for free, The 9 best cloud storage services: Cost, free storage, and features compared ...

Free E-mail or Free email

See Spam below for E-mail filtering techniques and more anti-spam information.

emailStripper. Remove Forwarding Characters From Emails. emailStripper is a free program for cleaning the ">" and other formatting characters out of your emails. It will restore "forwarded" or "replied" emails back to their original state so they're easier to read. Just paste the entire email into the eMailStripper window and press the Strip-It button.

Free Email Address. FastMail.fm, InBox.com, Yahoo! Mail, GMX (German) and HotMail.

Free Email Address Directory. Listings for hundreds of free mail services, articles about free email, and resources to help you find email addresses. Includes HushMail, ICQMail, Mail.com, and many more.

Types of Free Email Service and how to choose one. Free email listings: Web-Based Email, POP Mail, Mail Forwarding, plus large selection of email providers offering services in languages other than English.

Free or Almost Free Internet access

Note of caution: Long distance or other connection charges may apply if you live outside of the free local dialing area, or if you live in an area where there is no free dialing.

Anoox Messenger: Chat World Wide for Free. No App or Software to download, to install and continuously update. Chat World Wide instantly via your Web browser - on any device: Desktop, Laptop or Mobile Phone. Send FREE Text messages from your Mobile Phone World Wide to anyone on your Anoox contact list or whoever that calls you via your Anoox messenger button. Easily update your contact list by adding Anoox non-members to your contact list via their email, or add Anoox members via their nick-name. Multi Language Support: Chat via your Anoox Private Chat room not just in English, but also in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian & Russian. Non-profit to empower Main Street: Last but not least when you Chat via Anoox messenger, rather than Big Wall Street based Google™, Facebook™, etc. messengers, you are part of a Global Community to empower People & small businesses on Main Street

How to Get Faster Internet Speed for Free. YouTube video, 8:42 min. Published by Linus Tech Tips, Apr 25, 2018. "It's not clickbait - this actually is a quick, easy, and free method to make your internet faster - no matter if you're on a Mac or PC, phone or desktop! Just change your DNS to Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1".

How to get High Speed Internet for Free. YouTube video, 1:25 min. Published by Jay Kapoor, Jun 6, 2016.

Free Internet Access Providers. There are very few free Internet Service Providers (ISPs) left in the world. Many are offering low rates, but not totally free Internet access. Select a country from North America: Canada, USA; from the following European countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, UK; and from Argentina, Brazil, Israel, and Singapore.

Juno Free Internet. Free Internet access for 10 hours per month. U.S. residents only, no new Canadian customers accepted as of January 2003.

NetZero.net. U.S. and Canada only. 10 hours of free Internet access per month. You can purchase unlimited and ad-free Internet access for a small fee.

Quadruple Your Internet Speed for Free. YouTube video, 10:38 min. Published by ThioJoe, 22 Sep 2016. This tutorial will show you how you can quadruple your internet speed at no cost. It involves using some science and physics to optimize the connection between your computer and the ISP.

Free/Low Cost Web hosting, Free/Low Cost Web sites (free websites)

100 Best Web Hosting. Reviews and ratings by Web professional and actual users.

1stHostWeb.com - Free Web Hosting. So What Do I Get with my Free Web Hosting Plan?

9 Legit Ways to Get Free Internet by Laurie Blank, Well Kept Wallet, Jan. 13, 2021.

50megs.

Angelfire.

The Best Free and Cheap Internet for Canadians During COVID-19 by Sascha Segan, PC Magazine, Mar. 23, 2020.

eSmartStart.com

FreeServers.

TheFreeSite.com.

FreeWebSpace.net.

6 Best Internet Service Providers 2021 from Reviews.org. ISPs not free.

Free Web storage space

FreeWebSpace.net. Free file storage space. A guide to where you can store files on the internet for free.

Top 10 Independent Web Hosting Reviews of business and personal web hosts. Rate hosting companies based on past user feedbacks, lab benchmark testing, and usage with each website hosting.

Internet Safety - Safe Surf

7 Ways to Protect Your Privacy Online by Kara Brandeisky, Money, June 5, 2014.

55 Ways to Save Money on Internet Safety: The DEFINITIVE Guide by Sam Chester, August 13, 2019. Contents: How to Save Money by Using Free Versions, Save by Setting Up Your Browser Wisely, Increasing Your Cost Efficiency, Free & Simple Tweaks You Should Do, Save More on Internet Safety: Super-Secret Bonus Chapter.

Be Safe Online. "The aim of this website is to provide information and advice to adults, especially parents and teachers, about potential problems of life on the Internet and how to behave."

Best Guides to Online Privacy & Security for Netizens from Privacy Critic. Contents include:
* What is online Privacy
* Laws in different countries in favor of Privacy
* Laws in different countries against privacy rights
* Type of Breaches
* Techniques used to compromise users privacy
* The biggest data breaches and how much impact have they made on the world financially
* Tips to secure individual online privacy
* Online privacy in the business world and how to protect it

The Best Parental Control Software and Apps of 2019 from CompariTech. A round-up of top tools on the market. Shows step by step how to use the parental control features that are available for FREE on popular devices like iPhone. Helpful for parents in the ongoing battle to keep children safe from whatever the next online threat is.

Childnet International - How to keep safe while chatting online.

A Complete Resource of Internet Safety for Kids from Mobile Broadband.org.uk. Useful annotated links grouped under: Children Internet Safety Rules and Training, Reporting Child Internet Abuse, Children Chat Safety, Children Internet Safety Videos, Films and Play Areas, Children Internet Safety Reports, Children Search Engines, Firefox Plug-in for Kids Safety Internet, Tools for Child Internet Safety.

COPPA: A few tips to keep your child safe online by Lisa Lake, Consumer Education Specialist, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), April 24, 2019. "Online games and websites for kids are everywhere these days - to the point where it's commonplace to see toddlers playing with them, too. And while the internet often offers a positive way for children to explore and learn, privacy concerns are lurking. To help protect children's privacy, the FTC enforces the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which requires websites and online services to obtain consent from parents before collecting personal information from kids younger than 13 ... Learn more about how to protect your child when he's online. File a complaint with the FTC if you think a site has put your child's privacy at risk ..."

Cyber Security Guide: Student Guide to Internet Safety. This Cyber Security Guide is intended as a basic backgrounder for college-age students, but the suggestions and best practices on how to increase personal security will work for everyone.

Cyber Security Tips from US-CERT (United States - Computer Emergency Readiness Team), part of the Department of Homeland Security. Site describes and offers advice about common security issues for non-technical computer users. 4 Things You Can Do to Keep Yourself Cyber Safe, Dec 18, 2022.

Cybersafety Quiz. See how cybersmart you can be. How to be cybersmart and use the Internet safely for Kids.

Cybersecurity 101: Protect your privacy from hackers, spies, and the government from ZD Net.

A Guide to Protecting Children's Privacy Online by Alex Smith, Best VPN Rating, 1 Sep 2018.

Guide to Protecting Your Child Online from 192-168-1-1-ip.co.
1. Ensure only appropriate search engine results
2. Check all the gadgets
3. Prevent phishing scams
4. Limit online interaction to real-life friends and family
5. Enable parental controls
6. Keep an eye out
7. Keep the right software on hand
8. Teach your children about personal internet protection
9. Avoid public wifi hotspots
10. Keep your kids in the loop

Hacking the World - Hacking Basics by PIA Research Team, Private Internet Access, Oct 4, 2021. Cybersecurity Glossary, General Statistics, Hacking 101.

Healthy Digital Citizens: Helping Kids Stay Active & Safe in the Internet Age. A resource for parents, grandparents, guardians, and educators to help kids thrive.

How Parents and Educators Can Protect Children's Online Privacy from Online Master of Legal Studies, 2U, Inc. What Are the Risks of Children's Online Activity and Education? How To Talk About Online Privacy and Security With Kids, Easy Ways to Empower Kids Online, Simple Steps to Protect Children's Online Privacy. Site includes additional Online Privacy Resources for Students, Teachers and Parents.

How Privacy Vanishes Online by Steve Lohr, Technology, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2010.

How to Keep Your Kids Safe in the Online World? [A Child Saver Guide for Parents] by mycomforthaven, June 6, 2021. "Our children ought to understand that 'Internet Privacy' does not exist. Each image we post online, and each piece of personal information available, can be accessed ... Our children need a decent understanding of what ought to and ought not to be shared."

How to Search the Internet Effectively from Media Smarts.

How to Set Parental Controls on All Your Devices from Panda Security, November 5, 2018. Site explains how to set parental controls on the following devices and services:
- Computer Operating Systems
- Internet Browsers
- Search Engines
- Video Streaming
- Gaming
- Cell Phones
- Parental Control Apps.

How Much Privacy Do You Have Online? From University of Dayton School of Law, University of Dayton's online JD degree, January 17, 2019.
● What Is Privacy?
● What Is Personal Information?
● Four Ways to Take Charge of Your Digital Privacy:
   1. Know what to look for in the Terms and Conditions.
   2. Clear out cookies and fully close a browser after every session.
   3. Take advantage of customizable settings.
   4. Use digital tools to better understand consumer rights.

How to Keep Your Teen (or Tween) Safe Online by Rebecca Edwards, Researcher & Writer, SafeWise, Feb. 25, 2021.

How to Protect Your Child or Teen from Identity Theft: Cybersecurity Best Practices from University of Texas - UT Austin Boot Camps. Contents include: Identity Theft Prevention Tips for Young Children, Identity Theft Prevention Tips for Teens, Protecting a Child's Identity and Location, Checking Your Child's Credit Report, What to Do if Your Child's Identity Is Stolen, Password Safety.

How to Protect Your Children on Their Smartphone by Sandra Henshaw, Tiger Mobiles. Last Updated: Mar. 28, 2019.

Internet Safety Guide for Kids by CyberGhost Research Team, May 3, 2022. A Parents' Guide to Internet Safety for Kids. Contents include: Online Threats to Kids, How to Protect Your Kids from Online Threats, Keeping Kids Safe on Social Media, Online Security Tips for Parents, The Internet and Teenagers, The Bottom Line.

Kids' Rules for Online Safety from SafeKids.com

InHope - Association of Internet Hotline Providers - Mission mission is to eliminate child pornography from the Internet and protect young people from harmful and illegal uses of the Internet. Choose a country to report child pornography and/or illegal content on the Internet: Austria, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, and other countries.

Internet privacy from Wikipedia.

Internet Safety for Kids (A Parent's Guide) from VPN Streamer, Australia.

Child Internet Safety from NST Attorneys at Law.

Internet Safety from KidsHealth, updated and reviewed by Steven Dowshen, MD. Contents: Internet Safety Laws, Online Tools to Protect Your Child, Getting Involved in Your Child's Online Activities, Chat Room Caution, Warning Signs That Your Child May Be a Victim.

Life-Changing Guide to Protect Your Children on Their Smartphone from Routers Network. Topics include: How to Keep Your Child Safe on Using the Smartphone, Best Parental Control Apps, Best Apps to Reduce Screen Time, Tips to Protect Your Child from Cyberbullying, Keeping Your Child Safe Online, Know How Your Child Is Using the Phone, Set a Good Example for Your Child.

Online Safety Resource Guide from ReviewLab. More than 60 individual resources aimed to help you stay safe online. Categories: General Online Safety Resources, Online Shopping Safety Resources, Online Identity Theft Protection Resources, Anti-Phishing Resources, Anti-Spyware Resources, Anti-Ransomware Resources.

Online Safety: Safety Tips for Your Online Devices from Protect the Good Life, Nebraska Attorney General, Lincoln, NE. Keep a Clean Machine, Protect Your Personal Information, Connect with Care, Be Web Wise, Tips for Parents, Online Purchasing, Cyberbullying, Social Networking, Texting and Sexting.

Cybersecurity advice to protect your connected devices and accounts by Alvaro Puig, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Mar 23, 2022.
- Update your software.
- Protect your accounts.
- Back up important data.

Identity Theft and Online Security. How to protect your personal information and privacy, stay safe online, and help your kids do the same.

Online Privacy and Security. Understanding online privacy, how to protect your devices from hackers and threats, and how to avoid common online scams.

A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety from the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety from U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Preventing Identity Theft: Industry Practices Are the Key. Outline of remarks by Beth Givens, Director, U.S. Dept. of Treasury, Washington, D.C. National Summit on Identity Theft, Panel on Prevention, March 15-16, 2000.

Safe Surf from 4Kids.org. Includes COPPA & CIPA Laws - Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) and Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA or the CHIP Act).

Sammy's Guide to Internet Safety. A free interactive learning resource for educators and parents from The Internet Experts. Topics include: Protecting Personal Information, Password Safety, Email Safety, Recap Quiz, Social Media Safety (Parts 1 & 2), Cyber Bullying, App Safety, Final Quiz. Learning activities for kids included with each topic.

Scam / Cyber Safety / Issue Tracker from IDStrong - Monitor. Manage. Protect. Site tracks security breaches worldwide by Date, Alert (What and Where of Incident), Severity (Risk Levels), Impacted Users, Type (Data Breach, Data Leak, Ransomware Attack ...), Region (Country), Source (More details). Site also includes:
Identity Fraud Statistics
United States Statistics
Data Breach Statistics.

Social Media Safety Guide for Parents. Blog from Online Maryville University. Contents include: Benefits of Social Media, Dangers of Social Media for Youths, Do the Benefits Outweigh the Downsides? Guidelines by Age: 2-4 Years Old, 5-7 Years Old, 8-9 Years Old, Preteens (10-12), Teens (13-17), General Guidelines for Social Media Safety, How Much Social Media Use Is Too Much?

Staying Safe on Social Networking Sites from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). CISA is part of the Department of Homeland Security. Feb 1, 2021. What are social networking sites? What security implications do these sites present? How can you protect yourself?
Limit the amount of personal information you post
Remember that the internet is a public resource
Be wary of strangers
Be skeptical
Evaluate your settings
Be wary of third-party applications
Use strong passwords
Check privacy policies
Keep software, particularly your web browser, up to date
Use and maintain anti-virus software

Ten Tips to Keep Kids Safe Online by Marian Merritt, from Norton. "Statistics vary, but at least 20 percent of kids will receive harassing, hateful, or insulting messages."

Ultimate Privacy Guide (How to stay safe online) by Jared Clarke, Privacy advocate and tech writer. Site includes:
Internet Safety for Seniors (Elderly),
How to Delete Twitter Account,
How to Delete Facebook Account Permanently.

The Ultimate Online Privacy Guide by Douglas Crawford, November 18, 2016. Topics include: How Secure is Encryption? Steps You Can Take to Improve Your Privacy. Anonymize Your Internet Use. Other Ways to Stay Private Online. Miscellaneous Security Hints, Tips and Tricks. Is Privacy Worth it? "Privacy comes with a cost. It is worth thinking about what compromises you are willing to make, and how far you will go, to protect it."

VPN vs Proxy by Kevin Townsend, The Best VPN, December 15, 2017.
What Is a VPN, and Why You Need One by Max Eddy, PC Magazine, March 17, 2021. The best VPNs can help secure your web traffic against snoops, spies, and anyone else who wants to steal or monetize your data.
VPN Beginner's Guide: What is a VPN? by Rob Mardisalu, Sep 20, 2020. Find out what is a VPN and how does it work.
VPN Glossary. What is a Proxy? When to use a Proxy? When to use a VPN?

● Which VPN to choose? Country-by-Country Guide to VPN Jurisdictions - Five Eyes, Nine Eyes & 14-Eyes Countries and VPN Jurisdiction by Rob Mardisalu, Mar 22, 2018. 31 countries listed from Australia to United States. Contributors: John Mason (Founder), Brad Smith (VPN Testing & Analyses), and YOU, the reviewer.

The Ultimate Parent Guide for Protecting Your Child on the Internet from vpnMentor.

The Ultimate Parental Guide to Protecting Your Child on the Internet by VPN Vanguard, October 30, 2018

Internet Service Providers

All Free ISP. Find a cheap or free internet access service provider in your local area, in U.S. or Canada.

Compare Reviews for Internet Service Providers from ConsumerAffairs. Top 10 Best Rated Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Read reviews of each of the top brands. Find out: What features matter most? What are the different types of Internet Service Providers? ConsumerAffairs is a consumer news and advocacy organization founded in 1998 by James R. Hood, a veteran Washington, D.C. journalist and public affairs executive.

TheFreeSite.com. Free Internet Access, free Net access providers.

Internet. Shop the best internet service providers. Compare home internet services from the best internet service providers.
What is DSL and how does it work? From AllConnect.com. Learn about DSL internet and which internet service providers offer DSL internet in your area (in United States only).

leaf Worldline. Prices as of August 2023. Unlimited Internet from $34.95/mo. Superhero Phone Bundle: Superfast Internet and Home Phone - Starting from $49.95/mo. Superhero TV Bundle: Superfast Internet and TV - Starting from $67.95/mo. Superhero Ultimate Bundle: Superfast Internet, TV and Home Phone - Starting from $72.95/mo.

Internet Statistics

Internet Statistics. Growth and Usage of the Web and the Internet researched by Matthew Gray of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Internet World Stats. Internet Usage Statistics. The Internet Big Picture. World Internet Users and 2014 Population Stats.

Search engines

See also Quick Click to Search Engines.

21 Alternative Search Engines to Use in 2022 by Matteo Duò, Kinsta, Aug 31, 2022.
21 Best Search Engines for 2022: Alternatives to Google Search by Nicola Bleu, Blogging Wizard, Oct 26, 2022.
25 Alternative Search Engines to Consider in 2022 - Here's Why Experts Choose Them by Sadia Zia, Cloudways by Digital Ocean, Nov 4, 2021.

A Chronology of Data Breaches. Network security. Data breaches have been reported because personal information has been compromised. Info includes data elements useful to identity thieves: Social Security numbers, account numbers, and driver's license numbers. Breaches posted on this site include only those reported in the United States from 2005 to present.

Google Press Center: Zeitgeist - Library of Congress Web Archives Collection. 15 Google Zeitgeist web pages reflecting lists, graphs, and other tidbits of information related to Google user search behavior, from August 2001 to September 2002.
Google Press Center: Zeitgeist. Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google. View Top 10 Gaining Queries, and Top 10 Declining Queries. 2002.
March 2004.

Search Engine Showdown. The Users' Guide to Web Searching. Detailed analyses and statistics.

The Spider's Apprentice: A Helpful Guide To Web Search Engines. Tips on using Internet search sites e.g. Google, Yahoo! Alltheweb, Open Directory Project (dmoz), Search Engine FAQ, Search Engine Ranking Algorithms: Meaning of Page Rank, Search Strategy, How Search Engines Work, History of Search Engines, and more.

Wall Street Executive Library Web Search & Computer. Direct links to all Search Engines & Directories, All Meta Search Engines, SpyBots, Search the Invisible Web, Free Public Records, Article Search, All News Search, Website / Domain Search, All Specialized Search Engines, Privacy Resources, PC Industry, Technical Support & Tools, Virus Check, Top Downloads, and Download Sites.

Web Search 101: A Beginners Guide to Web Search fromAbout.com. Learn how to search the Web, search more of the Web, basic Boolean search, common search mistakes, web search tips and tricks, how to develop a search strategy.
How to Search the Internet Effectively: Tip Sheet from MediaSmarts, a Canadian not-for-profit charitable organization for digital and media literacy.
A Beginner's Guide to Performing Better Web Searches by Adam Dachis, LifeHacker.com, July 25, 2011.
10 tips for smarter, more efficient Internet searching by Alan Norton, TechRepublic.com, April 27, 2011.
The Top Ten Web Search Tricks Everyone Should Know by Jerri Collins, January 4, 2018. Including: Web Search 101: The Top Ten Web Search Tricks. Use more than one search engine. Be specific.

Security and Spyware

Ad-Aware. Free download of anti-spyware software from Lavasoft. Note: Not to be confused with Adware.

Guide to Internet Security from Consumer Reports.

leaf Protecting your devices from spam and other online threats. Learn how to protect yourself from spam on all of your devices. Internet Safety Tips: Spam, Phishing, Spyware. How to Recognize It and Better Protect Yourself from Office of Consumer Affairs, Industry Canada.

Safety Tips for Fighting Spyware from Superior Data Solutions. See also Malware from A to Z. Anti-Spyware glossary provided by the Anti-Spyware Coalition. Key terms in the lingo of malware and cyber crime, from Lavasoft.

SpyBot Search & Destroy. Spybot +AV: The all-in-one anti-malware, anti-spyware and antivirus software solution. Free download. Patrick Kolla of Germany created this excellent spyware software for the world to use.

SpywareBlaster. Free download. Freeware, donation welcomed. SpywareGuard. Free download. SpywareGuard provides a real-time protection solution against spyware that is a great addition to SpywareBlaster's protection method.

Spyware & Unwanted Software from RBC. Spyware and unwanted software are programs installed on a user's computer without their knowledge to secretly gather information about the user. Once your computer is infected with spyware, third parties can monitor your web surfing habits and steal your personal information. As a result, spyware is a serious threat to your computer's security and your information.

SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition from SuperAntiSpyware.

Cookie Basics: How Internet Cookies Work by Marshall Brain, HowStuffWorks. "Cookies are not programs, and they cannot run like programs do. Therefore, they cannot gather any information on their own. Nor can they collect any personal information about you from your machine.
Here is a valid definition of a cookie: A cookie is a piece of text that a Web server can store on a user's hard disk. Cookies allow a Web site to store information on a user's machine and later retrieve it. The pieces of information are stored as name-value pairs."

What are Cookies? From Kaspersky. "HTTP cookies are essential to the modern Internet but a vulnerability to your privacy ... Cookies let websites remember you, your website logins, shopping carts and more. But they can also be a treasure trove of private info for criminals to spy on ... While most cookies are perfectly safe, some can be used to track you without your consent. Worse, legitimate cookies can sometimes be spied upon if a criminal gets access."

HTTP cookie from Wikipedia. "HTTP cookies (also called web cookies, Internet cookies, browser cookies, or simply cookies) are small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser. Cookies serve useful and sometimes essential functions on the web. They enable web servers to store stateful information (such as items added in the shopping cart in an online store) on the user's device or to track the user's browsing activity ..."

Windows Defender. Windows 10 delivers comprehensive, built-in and ongoing security protections you can trust - including Windows Defender Antivirus, firewall, and more.

Spam

5 Simple Ways You Can Fight Spam and Protect Yourself from Kloud9, May 16, 2022. 1. You must never share the email IDs publicly. 2. Think twice before you click on any link. 3. Avoid providing any response to the spam emails. 4. Download spam filter and anti-virus programs to protect your email account. 5. Use two-factor authentication and strong password.

How do spammers harvest email addresses? Uri Raz points out the many ways in which spammers can get your email address.

How to Get Rid of Junk Mail, Spam, and Telemarketers and E-mail filtering techniques from EcoFuture.org.

Internet Safety Tips for Parents from Ministry of Education, British Columbia.
Internet Safety Advice: Top 10 Tips for Parents from WebWise.
Internet Safety Tips for Children and Teens from New York Public Library.
Kids' Rules for Online Safety from SafeKids.com.
Why It's Never Too Early to Teach Your Child Good Social Media Habits by Nicole Harris, Parents, 6 Sep. 2018.
How to Stay Cyber Safe: Internet Tips for Kids and Students from Student Edge, Feb. 4, 2019.
Internet Safety & Security Tips for Parents from Algonquin College.
The 5 cyber safety tips every parent should know from Norton by Symantec.

How to stop spam emails from destroying your inbox. Thine commercial emails shall not pass! By David Nield, Popular Science, Feb. 2, 2021.

Mailwasher Anti Spam Software - The Reliable Free Spam Blocker.

Online Scams FAQs from Spamhaus.org. See also Chain Letters from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

How is your Phishing IQ? From SonicWall. Over 90% of cyberattacks start with a phishing email. Can you tell the difference between a legitimate and phishing email? Take the test to find out your phishing IQ. Your job is to identify what is real and what looks "phishy." After taking the quiz, they will give you the results and point out the red flags that can be easy to miss.
Webroot Phishing Threat Trends. December 2016. An update to the 2016 Threat Brief.

SPAMfighter: PC optimization, PC security and spam filters for clients and servers. "SPAMfighter is a global provider of state-of-the-art computer, mobile and server utility products to millions of users from 238 countries/areas around the globe. SPAMfighter's mission is nothing less than saving the world from unwanted spam advertisements and provide innovative optimization, security, and protection solutions." Free download of standard version.

Tools for Webmasters

Note: When submitting your website to be indexed by search engines, read Google guidelines first: Webmaster Guidelines provided by Google. Best practices to help Google find, crawl, and index your site. "Make pages for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users." In other words, "Don't be tricky and don't be evil."

5 Easy Ways to Help Reduce Your Website's Page Loading Speed by Gregg Crystal, inaligninc.

5 Ways to Improve Your Search Engine Rankings from SitePro News, Jul 16, 2022.

15 Best Free Image Optimization Tools for Image Compressionby Waseem Abbas, EnviraGallery, Sep 24, 2018.

18 image file compression tools tested by Mike Williams, December 21, 2015. Save bandwidth and accelerate your site's performance with these powerful free tools. "The bulk of these are Windows-based lossless compression tools as they're the most interesting (reducing file size without reducing image quality is a very appealing idea) ... We then asked every package to compress the same sets of GIF, PNG and JPG images ... and made a note of the savings."
Tiny PNG. Smart PNG and JPEG Compression. Tiny PNG optimizes your images with a perfect balance in quality and file size.

Optimizilla. This online image optimizer uses a smart combination of the best optimization and lossy compression algorithms to shrink JPEG and PNG images to the minimum possible size while keeping the required level of quality. Upload up to 20 images. Wait for the compression to finish. Click thumbnails in the queue for quality setting. Use the slider to control the compression level and mouse/gestures to compare images.

Compress PNG with the Force of an Elephant. Click UPLOAD FILES to choose up to 20 PNG images you want to compress. Wait for the upload and compression processes to complete. Click DOWNLOAD ALL to get all the compressed files at once, grouped in a ZIP archive. Or you can download each image individually.

Compressor.io. Compress and optimize your images up to 90% file size reduction. Compressor.io is a powerful online tool for reducing drastically the size of your images and photos whilst maintaining a high quality with almost no difference before and after compression.

34 Search Engine Optimization Tips - Techniques and strategies for best SEO results from Monitor Backlinks.

50+ incredible freebies for web designers by Juan Pablo Sarmiento. Resources.

101 Most Useful Websites and Web Apps (as of Jun 28, 2022):
1 archive.is - take a permanent snapshot of a web page that will exist forever even if the original page is gone.
2 autodraw.com - create freehand doodles and watch them magically transform into beautiful drawings powered by machine learning.
3 fast.com - check the current speed of your Internet connection.
4 slides.com - create pixel-perfect slide decks and broadcast your presentations to an audience of any size from anywhere.
5 screenshot.guru - take high-resolution screenshots of web pages on mobile and desktops.
6 dictation.io - accurate and quick voice recognition in your browser using Google Speech API.
7 reverse.photos - upload an image and find similar pictures on the web.
8 copychar.cc - copy special characters and emojis that aren’t on your keyboard.
9 codeacademy.com - the best place to learn coding online.
10 noisli.com - ambient noises to help you improve focus and boost productivity.
11 iconfinder.com - millions of icons for all kinds of projects. Also try icons8.com and flaticon.com.
12 jotti.org - scan any suspicious file or email attachment for viruses.
13 wolframalpha.com - gets answers directly without searching – see more wolfram tips.
14 earth.google.com - explore beautiful cities, landmarks and orbit the world in 3D from the comfort of your browser.
15 unsplash.com - the best place to download images absolutely free.
16 videos.pexels.com - an online library of free HD videos you can use everywhere. Also see videvo.net.
17 invideo.io - make impressive videos and branded stories for Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Also see animoto.com and biteable.com.
18 everytimezone.com - a less confusing view of the world time zones.
19 e.ggtimer.com - a simple online timer for your daily needs.
20 random.org - pick random numbers, flip coins, and more.
21 remove.bg - remove the background from any photograph without firing up Photoshop. Also see unscreen.com for removing the background from GIFs and videos.
22 myfonts.com/WhatTheFont - upload an image of any text and quickly determine the font family.
23 fonts.google.com - the best collection of open source fonts that you can use anywhere without restrictions.
24 fontstruct.com - draw and build your own fonts and use them in any application.
25 calligraphr.com - transform your handwriting into a real font.
26 regex.info - find data hidden in your photographs – see more EXIF tools.
27 youtube.com/webcam - broadcast yourself live over the Internet without any complicated setup.
28 camelcamelcamel.com - Create Amazon price watches and get email alerts when the prices drop.
29 homestyler.com - design from scratch or re-model your home in 3D.
30 pdfescape.com - quickly edit PDF in the browser without Acrobat.
31 draw.io - create diagrams, wireframe and flowcharts in the browser. Also see asciiflow.com and excalidraw.com.
32 web.skype.com - make voice and video calls in your browser with Skype.
33 onlineocr.net - recognize text from scanned PDFs – see other OCR tools.
34 wetransfer.com - for sharing really big files online.
35 file.pizza - peer to peer file transfer over WebRTC without any middleman.
36 snapdrop.com - like Apple AirDrop but for the web. Share files directly between devices in the same network without having to upload them to any server first.
37 hundredzeros.com - the site lets you download free Kindle books.
38 app.grammarly.com - check your writing for spelling, style, and grammatical errors.
39 noteflight.com - print music sheets, write your own music online ( review).
40 translate.google.com - translate web pages, PDFs and Office documents.
41 kleki.com - create paintings and sketches with a wide variety of brushes.
42 similarsites.com - discover new sites that are similar to what you like already.
43 bubbl.us - create mind-maps, brainstorm ideas in the browser.
44 color.adobe.com - get color ideas, also extract colors from photographs.
45 canva.com - make beautiful graphics, presentations, resumes and more with readymade template designs.
46 lmgtfy.com - when your friends are too lazy to use Google on their own.
47 midomi.com - when you need to find the name of a song.
48 history.google.com - see all your past Google searches, also among most important Google URLs
49 faxzero.com - send an online fax for free – see more fax services.
50 tinychat.com - setup your own private chat room in micro-seconds.
51 privnote.com - create text notes that will self-destruct after being read.
52 domains.google.com - quickly search domain names for your next big idea!
53 squoosh.app - compress images on the fly. Site works offline as well.
54 downforeveryoneorjustme.com - find if your favorite website is offline or not?
55 gtmetrix.com - the perfect tool for measuring your site performance and web vitals.
56 builtwith.com - find the web hosting company, email provider and everything else about a website.
57 urbandictionary.com - find definitions of slangs and informal words.
58 cccefseatguru.com - consult this site before choosing a seat for your next flight.
59 stackblitz.com - a playground for building web projects in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Also see: glitch.com.
60 flightstats.com - Track flight status at airports worldwide.
61 mymaps.google.com - create custom Google Maps with scribbles, pins and custom shapes.
62 snopes.com - find if that email offer you received is real or just another scam.
63 typingweb.com - master touch-typing and improve your typing speed. Use typelit.io and practice typing with classic literature.
64 todo.microsoft.com - a beautiful todo app and task manager. Also see Trello.
65 minutes.io - quickly capture effective notes during meetings.
66 talltweets.com - Turn Google Slides in animated GIF presentations and videos.
67 ifttt.com - create a connection between all your online accounts.
68 namechk.com - search for your desired username across hundreds of social networks and domain names.
69 gist.github.com - create anonymous and secret text notes and much more.
70 mathsolver.microsoft.com - solve algebra, calculus, trigonometry and other Maths problems with detailed step-by-step explanations.
71 powtoon.com - create engaging whiteboard videos and presentations with your own voice overs. Also see videoscribe.co.
72 beautifier - Prettify your source code and make the code readable. Supports JavaScript, JSON, PHP, HTML and more.
73 carrd.co - build one-page fully responsive websites that look good on every screen.
74 spark.adobe.com - make stunning video presentations with voice narration and wow everyone.
75 anchor.fm - the easiest way to record a podcast that you can distribute on iTunes without have to pay for hosting.
76 duolingo.com - learn to speak Chinese, French, Spanish or any other language of your choice. Also see memrise.com.
77 buffer.com - the easy way to post and schedule updates on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+ and Facebook.
78 10minutemail.com - create disposable email addresses for putting inside sign-up forms.
79 pixton.com - create your own comic strips with your own characters and move them into any pose.
80 twitterbots - create your own Twitter bots that can auto-reply, DM, follow people and more.
81 headspace.com - learn the art of meditation and reduce stress, focus more and even sleep better.
82 forms.studio - receive files from anyone in your Google Drive with File Upload Forms.
83 class-central.com - a directory of free online courses offered by universities worldwide.
84 googleartproject.com - discover museums, famous paintings and art treasure from all around the world.
85 instructables.com - step-by-step guides on how to build anything and everything.
86 flowgram.com - make data-driven graphics, charts and infographics. Also see adioma.com and eas.ly.
87 figma.com - create interactive wireframes and product mockups.
88 photos.icons8.com - make your own stock photographs in high-resolution with custom backgrounds, models and facial expressions.
89 gohighbrow.com - Take bite-sized courses on a variety of topics, chapters are delivered by email every morning.
90 appinventor.mit.edu - build your own apps (sample) for Android and iOS by dragging blocks instead of writing code. Also see thunkable.com.
91 htmlmail.pro - send rich-text emails with gmail mail merge.
92 wirecutter.com - whether you need a vacuum cleaner or an SD card, this is the best product recommendation website on the Internet.
93 mockaroo.com - download mock data to fill the rows in your Excel spreadsheet.
94 witeboard.com - A digital whiteboard for teams to collaborate during online meetings and classes.
95 duckduckgo.com - a clean alternative to google search that doesn’t track you on the Internet.
96 whereami - find the postal address of your current location on Google maps.
97 zerodollarmovies.com - a huge collection of free movies curated from YouTube.
98 getrevue.co - start an online email newsletter and get detailed analytics on your subscribers engagement.
99 upwork.com - find freelancers and subject experts to work on any kind of project.
100 razorpay.com - easily request payments from customers anywhere in the world.
101 udemy.com - learn anything from music to Microsoft Excel to accounting with online video courses.

A1 Sitemap Generator. Create HTML and XML Sitemaps. Other Sitemap Generators:
Free Sitemap Generator spiders your entire site (up to 5,000 pages for free accounts and 25,000 for premium accounts) to make sure all links/pages are included in the sitemap.
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xml Sitemaps.com. Sitemap generator that creates XML and HTML variants. Free up to a maximum of 500 pages or purchase a script for unlimited use.
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● Comment from Google: "A Sitemap file can contain no more than 50,000 URLs and must be no larger than 50MB when uncompressed. If your Sitemap is larger than this, break it into several smaller Sitemaps. These limits help ensure that your web server is not overloaded by serving large files to Google ... Use a sitemap index file to list all your sitemaps and submit this single file to Google rather than submitting individual sitemaps."

Active Search Results - ASR. Internet Search Engine with ASR Page Ranking Technology.

AdsWiki.net. Adnetworks Wikipedia. Lists and compares Advertising Networks. Categories: Payment Frequency, Payment Method, Country, Proof of payment, Payment Processor, Advertising News.

Top 10 - CPM Networks. Not all Adnetworks are scams, but some definitely are.

Best Mobile Display Ad Networks from Thalamus. Ad Networks typically offer pricing models of CPM, CPC, CPI, CPA on channels such as Mobile Display, Mobile Video, Desktop Display, Desktop Video. A majority of their inventory are in countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and India.

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Baku. Free download. Baku allows you to search for system registry errors and unneeded files that can be safelly removed. Be careful when using this software. You need to know exactly what "unneeded" files you want deleted, otherwise it might foul up your system.

Bootstrap. Most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

Bravenet Site Search - Search webpages on your own site.
FreeFind search engine - Add a search engine to your Website. 32MB initial limit, about 3000 pages free.
Mamma.com - Add search results to your website.
siteLevel is a hosted site search solution, which allows your site's visitors to search the contents of your site. Free version of siteLevel Basic service, ad-supported with 1000 page limit.

Best Web Directories. Review of Best Free, Paid, and Reciprocal Directories, Best Webmaster Directories, Top Canadian and UK Directories, Automatic Submission Sites, Link Popularity, Automated Linking Tools, Link Exchange Sites, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Tips, Web Page Content, Improving Link Popularity, Title & Meta Tags, Doman Name, Free Meta Tag Generator, SEO Search Tips for Google, Yahoo & MSN, Best Web Hosts Listings, Directory Ranking Criteria, and more.

BigNoseBird.com. Everything you need to build great web sites. Over 300 pages of tutorials, reference materials, and other free resources.

Blender.org. Free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems. Includes Features, Tutorials, free Blender Download.

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Broken Link Checker. Free Online Broken Link Checker. This free online Checker / Validator not just tells you which of your hyperlinks are dead but it will also show to your where exactly those stale references locate in your HTML code.
Broken Link Checker from CreatingOnline.com.
Dead Link Checker. Free Broken Link Checker. Excellent software which allows you to check your whole website or a single webpage at a time. 100% scanned. Shows number of URLs checked, as well as OK and Failed URLs under headings: Status (e.g. 404, Operation timed out), URL and Source Link (Title of your link). Makes it really easy to find and correct your errors.
Free Broken Link Validator from W3C Link Checker.
REL Link Checker Lite.
Xenu Link Sleuth: Find Broken Links.

Browser Information. Browser statistics. Description and history of browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, and Opera, from W3 Schools. See also The Netscape Archive - Official support by AOL ended on March 1, 2008.

Browsers: All About Web Browsers

48+ Eye-Opening Web Browser Statistics (2020) by Jessica Henson, UK Web Host Review.
Apple Safari Browser
Avant Browser
Aviator - The WhiteHat Aviator? Web Browser
Baidu Browser
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Chrome - Google Chrome Web Browser
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Dolphin Browser for Android, iPhone, iPad. Free Mobile Browsers
Firefox - Mozilla
Internet Explorer - Microsoft Download Center
Netscape Navigator
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SeaMonkey
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Web Freer

Browsershots.org. Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test, CSS Gallery, Web Design Gallery, Icon Search Engine.

CCleaner - Crap Cleaner free software download - Spyware Free. CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. The best part is that it is FAST and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)

ChangeDetection.com provides page change monitoring and notification services to internet users worldwide. Anyone can use this service to monitor any website page for changes. Just fill a form below, ChangeDetection will create a change log for the page and alert you by email when a change in the page text is detected. Free service available since 1999.

domain age checker

Check PageRank. Check your Page Ranking for free. Gives you immediate results. You can download a PDF for your PageRank report. Site also provides a convenient link to a history of your Domain from Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

5 Ways to Improve Your Search Engine Rankings by Damien Fisher, Fishtank Agency, published in SiteProNews, Jul 20, 2022.
1. Choose Relevant Topics and Keywords - Keywords are a vital part of SEO and are used by search engines to understand what a website or page is about and whether it's relevant to what a user is searching.
2. Set Up On-site Optimisation - On-site SEO optimisation tells Google and other search engines what your website page is about.
3. Set Up a Blog and a Consistent Blogging Schedule.
4. Create a Link-building Plan.
5. Measure and Track Your Content's Success.

9 Tried-and-True Tips to Amplify Your Website's On-Page SEO by Ray Blakney, CEO and co-founder of Live Lingua. Article published on SiteProNews, Issue #3131, Jul 18, 2022. Helpful tricks and strategies include:
1. Optimize Every Single Landing Page.
2. Place Related Keywords in H2 & Bolded Tags.
3. Don't Ignore the Meta Description Tags. Every single tactic can be monumental for boosting your site's rank.
4. Optimize the Meta Title Tag. Adding in the keywords will really help boost the page's overall rank.
5. Plan Your Internal Linking Wisely.
6. Unique Content Is Key.
7. Check Page Load Speeds.
8. Can Google Read the Pages? If the content of your pages is not readable by Google's spiders and crawlers, this can be detrimental for the overall ranking of the domain.
9. Remove All "Dead Pages". Delete all of these "dead pages" on your website, as they could be lowering your ranking without you even knowing it.

● Find out what is a Spam Score. Moz Spam Score Checker.

● Disavow links to your site. Google Disavow Tool. Warning from Google: "This is an advanced feature and should only be used with caution. If used incorrectly, this feature can potentially harm your site's performance in Google's search results. We recommend that you only disavow backlinks if you believe that there are a considerable number of spammy, artificial, or low-quality links pointing to your site, and if you are confident that the links are causing issues for you."

Check URL Safety from Trend Micro's Widget Gallery. Type in URL to check website's Reputation - malicious or non-malicious. Also indicates its Category - type of website.

How to Identify and Avoid Scams from Trend Micro.

Trend Micro Check - Browser Security. Verify the legitimacy of links and websites against the largest scam database in the world. Never visit fake sites and scammers never get your personal information. Install Trend Micro Check on your browsers to detect scams for free.

Google Safe Browsing examines billions of URLs per day looking for unsafe websites. When unsafe sites are detected, Google will show warnings on Google Search and in web browsers. Search to see whether a website is currently dangerous to visit. Search by URL to check site status.

Website Reputation Checker. This service helps you detect potentially malicious websites. Check the online reputation/safety of a website.

URL Reputation API by APIVoid can detect potentially phishing and malicious URLs.

IPVoid - IP Address Tools Online. Scan an IP address. IP blacklist check, whois lookup, dns lookup, ping, and more.

Codecademy. Learn to code interactively, for free. This free site offers opportunity to learn Web fundamentals: HTML, CSS, jQuery, Javascript, Python, Ruby, PHP and APIs.

CodeGuru the number one developer site. Visual C++, .NET / C#, Visual Basic, Blog, Forums, Videos, Submit an Article, Win8 Gallery, Newsletter.

Comet Cursor Removal Instructions and Help from PC Hell. Includes Removal Instructions for Other Programs: Spyware Removal and Other Resources, How to Delete Undeleteable Files, How to Remove SurferBar, How to Remove Starware, Bargain Buddy Removal Instructions, Bonzi Buddy Removal, Kazaa Removal Instructions, Gator Software Removal, HotBar Toolbar Removal, Smartsearch.ws Homepage Hijacker Removal Instructions and Help, and many others.

Cool Site of the Day: Webmaster Resources. Top 40 Tools & Tips for Web Sites.

Create Your Websites. A Beginner's How-To Guide to build a website from scratch. A free step-by-step tutorial designed for non-technical users teaching them how to create their own website in 4 simple and easy to follow steps.

Free CGI Web Tools for Your Website. Download the source code for several CGI applications. This enables you to customize, translate, and modify, ready-to-use CGI applications.
CGI Tools/Libraries Software from SourceForge.



How to Create a Website by Lars Lofgren, Quick Sprout, April 8, 2020. A simple guide on how to create a website with 3 easy solutions.

How to Create an Ecommerce Website in 5 Easy Steps by Lars Lofgren, Quick Sprout, April 11, 2020. A step-by-step guide to creating your ecommerce website or online store.

How to Make a Website. An easy, step-by-step guide from Robert Mening, a web developer, March 11, 2020. This FREE guide has helped to launch over 125,000 websites already. You can make your own website without having to learn code. This is one amazing guide as Robert made it for BEGINNERS. Although the guide is very detailed, it is very easy to follow. It's 'Up-to-Date' as he updates his guides every month. It is Platform Specific (WordPress). Your website will be set up the right way on the right platform for what you need. Robert also provides you with support - FREE help and consultation via email.

How to Start an Online Store. Step-by-Step Guide for Creating an Online Store (e-commerce site) by Robert Mening, author of WebsiteSetup.org and freelance web developer since 2004.

WordPress 101. WordPress Tutorials. This is the original WordPress 101 video tutorial series that has helped more than 3,000,000 people learn how to use WordPress to build their own blog or website. This series of free WordPress tutorials cover everything you need to know to get started using WordPress.

Creating RSS Feeds for Your Website from 2 Create a Website. See also:

How to Embed RSS Feeds into HTML Web Pages - The Easy Way by Amit Agarwal, Mar 5, 2008.

How to Use Google Meet - Detailed Tutorial. YouTube video, 11:32 min. Published by Teacher's Tech, Mar. 24, 2020.

Free RSS to HTML PHP Script from FreeForAll.

Magic RSS - for Your Web Site. "Magic RSS allows you to present any RSS feed on any web page with the insertion of one line of code. It's that simple. And it's completely free."

RSSPECT. Automatic and free RSS feeds for everyone. Offers three kinds of feeds, so you can add an RSS feed to literally anything you find online.

RSS2Java. RSS to Java, your ultimate source for easily adding RSS feeds to your website. Service is FREE of charge and only requires you to fill in the form. A JavaScript code will be generated and needs to be plugged into your website.

What Is RSS? from RSS2Java. "RSS is a simple XML-based system that allows users to subscribe to their favorite websites. Using RSS, webmasters can put their content into a standardized format, which can be viewed and organized through RSS-aware software."

Criteria of Website Excellence. Summary of 21 criteria used in refining the list of 100 Best Websites.

Design. Software and Apps from Lifewire. Whether you're into graphic design, animation and video or some other aspect of design, we've created the resources you need for success. Animation & Video, 3D Design, Graphic Design.

Disable Right Mouse Click Script from DynamicDrive.com. A cross browser DHTML No Right Clicks Script. Use it to stop surfers from easily saving your web page, viewing its source, or lifting images off your site.

Dr. Dobb's Software Tools for the Professional Programmer. Includes Articles of a highly technical nature, Columns, Op-Eds, Source Code, Newsletters, DevSearcher, TechNetCast, Book Reviews, Embedded Systems, Microprocessor Resources, Software Careers, Dr. Dobb's Store, Subscriber Services, and more.

DupKiller.net by Oleksandr 'TR' Roslov. Freeware. A fast and powerful tool for searching and removing duplicate or similar files on your computer.

Dynamic Drive. DHTML (Dynamic HTML) code library. Provides free, original DHTML scripts and components. DHTML Script categories include: Menus and Navigation Systems, Special document effects, Scrollers, Images (General, Slideshows, onMouseover), Mouse Trail effects, Links and buttons, Dynamic Content New! Dynamic Clocks and dates, Form effects, Text animations, Browser Window, DHTML Games, and more.

Easy Cleaner from ToniArts. EasyCleaner searches Windows registry for entries that are pointing nowhere. EasyCleaner lets you delete unnecessary files such as temps and backups, search for duplicate files, manage startup programs, invalid shortcuts and add/remove software list.

FavIcon Generator. Use this online tool to create a favicon (favorites icon) for your site. A favicon is a small, 16x16 image that is shown inside the browser's location bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up. It is a good way to brand your site and increase its prominence in your visitor's bookmark menu.

Firefox 2. Free download for Windows, English. Firefox is a stripped down, streamlined rebuild of Mozilla, a browser.

FontSpace.com. Wild Wood font - Created in 2000 by Jester Font Studio.
Free Spooky Fonts.
Free Scary Fonts.
Horror Fonts from 1001fonts.com.
Urban Fonts.

FreebieList.com. Free hit counter services, free counters, website trackers for web pages.

FreeBulkSEOTools.com. Tools include: Page Rank Checker, DA Checker, Alexa Checker, AccuNumber Checker, External Links Checker, Alexa Backlinks Checker, and Blog.

Free Counters from UK. Free hit counters, Free web counter, Free page counters.

thefreecountry.com. The Free Country.com's collection of free programming resources, free webmasters' resources, free security resources and free utilities.

FreeFind Site Search Engine. FreeFind adds a "search this site" feature to your website, making your site easier to use. FreeFind also gives you reports showing what your visitors are searching for, enabling you to improve your site. FreeFind's advanced site search engine and automatic site map technology can be added to your website for free.

Free Guestbook from theGuestbook.com. Read terms of service.
eFreeGuestbooks.
Get Your Free Guestbook from Free Guestbook.net.

Free Meta Tag Analyzer from Scrub The Web. Also includes: Free Meta Tag Optimizer, Free Search Engine Optimization, Keyword Density Analyzer, Meta Tag Help, and Web Page Analyzer.

Free Monthly Tune-Up! From NetMechanic. Free Monthly Tune-Up service will test up to 10 pages of your Web site without charge.

Free Speed Video from Easy Video Maker. 100% Free Software. Easy video speed changer for speed up or slow down videos. No first frame image, just all black. Don't know how to fix that problem.
Online Video Resizer from OnlineVideoCutter.com. Free. Choice of size to reduce video from original to 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p.

Frequently Asked Questions About Robots. FAQs include: How often should sites be submitted for indexing? What factors determine the database rankings? What kind of pages result in better rankings? Is there a meta keyword description limit? Why is my site no longer in a search engine index?

Glyphicons - Components. Over a dozen reusable components built to provide iconography, dropdowns, input groups, navigation, alerts, and much more. 200 glyphs in font format from the Glyphicon Halflings set. Glyphicons Halflings are normally not available for free, but their creator has made them available for Bootstrap free of cost. ~ Courtesy of Glyphicons.com.

Google Apps. Smart apps for email, documents, sites and more.

Check Page Rank of any web site pages instantly:
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Google PR - Google Page Ranking. Do you know what Google PR is and what your site PR is? Page Ranking is a way to figure out how your site ranks overall on Google. Ranking ranges from 0 (worst) to 10 (perfect ranking) and is a gauge of how you are doing on this search engine. Free Page Rank Checker.

How Much Is A Web Site Worth? From Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. Opinions and suggestions on how to determine the dollar value of a web site for sale or purchase.

How Much Is Your Web Site Worth? By Darcel Jackson. In Charles Bennet's opinion, the following 7 items are key considerations in assessing the worth of a dot com business: URL, Value vs. Worth, Domain Name, Traffic, Income, Assets, Confidentiality.

How Much is Your Website Worth? FREE Domainz Website Evaluation. Includes: Useful tips to improve your existing Website.

How to Add Google Analytics to Your Web Site from eHow.

How to Create a Wikipedia Page from NetReputation.com, provider of Online Reputation Management Services. "Most Google searches usually lead to their connected Wikipedia pages. Wikipedia business listings are usually situated towards the top of the search engine results page (SERP). This makes most people want to create a new Wikipedia page for their company. An article or page on the platform could mean instant visibility and an additional reputation boost for your business. Wikipedia is a highly trusted source for consumers."

How to Determine the Value of a Web Site. "The easiest method is to use the Net Income the website has produced over the last 12 to 24 months to arrive at a value range." Website Appraisals. Example Appraisal in PDF includes details of Valuation Formulas. How to Sell a Web Site. Tips on How to Transfer Your Website Once It's Sold - Sample Contract.

How to Never Spend Money on PC Software Ever Again by Chuck Gray, Central Rappahannock Regional Library (CRRL) Staff, Fredericksburg, VA.

Internet Archive Wayback Machines. Explore more than 299 billion web pages saved over time.

Internet Supervision.com. Sign up for a free website monitoring account. InternetSupervision.com monitors the availability, performance, and content of your website.

IP Address - What's My IP Address.

What is an IP Address - Definition and Explanation from Kaspersky.

How to Hide My IP Address. Andrey Doichev lists 6 fool-proof ways to hide your IP address including keeping your Internet connection encrypted and fully anonymous, from TheBestVPN.com, March 30, 2017.

JustWebProxy is a blog about web proxy and proxy server for anonymous browsing and user privacy. A web proxy lets a user browse the internet without giving out their IP address information through the help of a server. It provides a level of privacy for the user by masking their information from the websites they are visiting.

IP Address Locator Tool. Free IP address lookup for all Internet connections. Enter an IP address to find its location. Results include Country info: Country Code, Distance to Nearby Cities, Latitude, Longitude, Capital City, TimeZone, Nationality, Population, CIA Map Reference, Currency, Flag of Country.

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Laptop battery reconditioning: 3 hacks you didn't know existed from Battery Reconditioning Experts. Tired of having to recharge your laptop batteries all day? These 3 laptop battery reconditioning hack can help.

LinkPartners.com. The Easy Way to Find Link Swap Partners.

Links Exchange Services and Resources . Listing of several of the top link exchange providers from DiscoveryVIP.com.

Malwarebytes. Excellent Anti-Malware software. Highly recommended. Free version download. Can upgrade to Premium. Well worth the cost.

Mobile-Friendly Test from Google. This mobile friendly test will analyze a URL and report if the page has a mobile-friendly design.
Google to boost mobile-friendly algorithm this May [2016] from Search Engine Land.

MyTechSupport.ca is Your Computer Technical Resource Headquarters. Free Tech Support can be obtained by posting your problems and/or questions in their Forums. Includes: Computer Web Directory, Computer Related News, and Technology Related News, Hot Utilities.

NetMechanic. Power Tools for Your Web Site. Improve your site: Identify Web site errors, Find browser display problems, Use GIFBot to optimize slow loading graphics. Promote your site: Search Engine optimization and submission, Get HTML help from Webmaster Resource Center, Check out the Webmaster Tips Newsletter by subject or by date.

OldVersion.com has been supplying the online community with old versions of various programs since 2001.

PageRank from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. See also How can I improve my site's ranking? From Google Webmaster Help Center.

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Ranking.com. Formerly TrafficRanking.com. Calculates the ranking for the top 900,000 most visited websites on the Internet. All services are free. Check out your favorite sites to see their ranking.

reallybig.com. Offers 5000 resources for Web builders, including free clipart, CGI, counters, fonts, HTML, Java, animation, backgrounds, icons, wysiwyg editors, buttons, photographs, site promotion, and more.

Scripts & Software for Your Website and Miscellaneous, Server & Developer Software, free from Webnet77.com. Scripts include: EEZYMail, WebAuth, Advanced Bible Search and Read Script, HTMLCompiler, Scripture Moment, perl counter, SpamBotPoison, POP Server Diagnostic tool, Header/Footer, Form Mailer, IP to Country - Track visitors to your site and put a cool IP to Country lookup table on your website.

Search Engine Optimization Tutorial by Christine Churchill, from NetMechanic. Why Search Engines Are Important to You - Learn how much traffic you could be getting. The Basics - What's the difference between Yahoo and Alta Vista, and more? How to get listed - What to do and what you can expect to happen. How to improve your ranking - Just being listed isn't enough - Learn tricks to get a top ranking.

SEO in a Nutshell: Understanding, Credibility & Deliverability by Jason Barnard, Search Engine Journal, Oct. 23, 2020. By understanding what Google's problems are, we can better help it to help us. Make sure your SEO efforts support Google's three most important "needs." Jason Barnard / October 23, 2020.

SEO Report Card. Let UpCity analyze your site for FREE and see how it ranks versus your competitors.

Shorten URL for Free

- Bitly URL Shortener
- Google url shortener
- is.gd URL shortener
- Ow.ly Shrink URL
- Shortener.rb.gy. Excellent free Shorten URL site. Includes https:// in shortened URL. Has the shortest URL.
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- TinyURL.com. Enter a long URL to make it short, i.e. tiny. Includes https:// in shortened URL. Some sites are banned and their URLs will not be shortened.

Smart Computing Daily Tip Archive. Tips are listed in date order, newest to oldest. Topics include: Increase the Font Size on a Web Page, Clearing Internet Explorer's Cache & History, Test Your Hard Drive, Change Your Mouse Pointer Back to Normal, Keep Your Digital Camera Dry, How to Remove Startup Items, and much more.

SourceForge - Download, Develop and Publish Free Open Source... SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development web site. SourceForge offers free access to hosting and tools for developers to create powerful software in thousands of projects to share with a global audience. As of January 2013, the SourceForge directory connects more than 46 million consumers with free or open source software and serves more than 4,000,000 downloads a day.

● Visit Security & Utilities to download free Windows Security and Utilities Open Source Software.

Special Characters:

HTML Entities & Special Characters from WhatsMyIP.org.

HTML 4.01 Character Entity References by Alan Wood. List of 252 named entities (for letters with diacritics, Greek letters and various special characters) supported in HTML 4.01.

HTML ISO-8859-1 Reference and HTML Symbols from W3Schools.com. ASCII character set, Standard ISO character sets, Mathematical symbols, Greek letters, and other symbols. Older browsers may not support all the HTML5 entities in the table below. Chrome and Opera have good support, and IE 11+ and Firefox 35+ support all the entities.

Rapid Tables: HTML character codes. All HTML character codes of text fonts and symbols from 0 (& # 0 ;) to ￿ (& #65535). Click on character to get HTML code. See also Online Calculators & Tools from RapidTables, including RBG Color Codes Chart, and under Web Design: Web Colors, Web HTML tags code, Web Tools, Website Development.

Special ALT Characters. Tutorials from Ted M. Montgomery.

Microsoft Keyboards - Standard English (US101) - Typing Diacritics and Special Characters.

Unicode Character Table: Arabic.

Unicode Character Table, Character Sets, Tables of Common Character Sets from Madore.org, by David Alexander Madore, Signs of the Zodiac, Symbols for Facebook.

Speed Test. SpeedTest by Ookla. Click on BEGIN TEST to start testing your internet connection download speed. Anything less then 12 is too slow. Try this test again using a different browser.

Sprite Generator - CSS Sprites. Optimize your website using CSS Sprites! Generate CSS Sprites to speed up your website by reducing HTTP requests.

CSS Sprites Generator. What are css sprites? Upload your images. (Note: Please don't upload HUGE files. That's not the purpose of sprites technique.)

CSS Sprite Generator from Daniel's Tools.

Sprite Cow. Open file. Select Sprite. Pick background.

StatMyWeb. Alexa Traffic Rank Checker, Broken Link Checker, Ping Test, Domain Look-up, IP Location, Website Speed Test, Website Info, Encode/Decode Urls, View Trace Route, Google Page Rank, Domain Availability, Domain Whois, Reverse IP/Look-up, Server Status, Link Extractor, Reciprocal Link Checker, HTML Tag Counter, HTTP Headers, DNS Records, Website Worth Calculator.

Step by Step on Creating a Password Protected Website by Janice Woods, Web Hosting Professional, Jan. 27, 2021. Why do you need to password protect your website? Protecting your website with a password can be useful for a variety of reasons including: Showing work in-progress to a client (e.g. web developer, designer), Sharing photos or ideas with friends, and Members-only content. Protecting your website with a password can be easily done by following the helpful guide on this site.

Staying in Touch with Technology from New York Times, March 3, 2011. How older adults can keep up with technology. Article recommends practical and useful software and applications.

The Ten Commandments of Good Web Design by KrystalRose Designs.

There Is an Attitude on the Web that everything is free for the taking. Article on virtual pirating by Joe Gillespie.

Thumbnails and Screenshots. Free web service to create thumbnails and screenshots from websites. Compare Free or Premium plan.

Top 10 Best Free Video Editing Software for Windows posted by Wondershare Editor Liza Brown to Choosing video editing software, Jul 21, 2016.

Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.

Username Generator from Jimpix.co.uk.

Username Generator from SpinXO.

How to Create an Anonymous Email Account by Eric Griffith, PC Magazine.

How to Make a Unique Username. Co-authored by wikiHow Staff. Using Your Imagination. Using a Name Generator. Community Q&A.<

How to Set Up a Secure Email Address by Edward Mercer, studioD.

How to create safe online accounts: An internet security must-know, from BullGuard Security Center.

How to Make a Unique Username from wikiHow.

How to Create an Original Username from wikiHow.

Name Generator - Find the Perfect Username from Name-Generator.org.uk.

Username Generator from Jimpix.co.uk.

W3Schools. A fantastic collection of Full Web Building Tutorials - All Free: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, XHTML, WAP, ASP, SQL tutorials with lots of working examples and source code. Type your URL and get an excellent, free, instant validation of your source code with W3C, complete with detailed analysis of any errors that you may have on your Webpage plus how to correct them. Quick Starters: MyFirst HTML, MyFirst CSS, MyFirst JavaScript, MyFirst VBScript. Validation: Validate HTML, Validate CSS, Validate XHTML, Validate XML, Validate WML, and much more.

WAVE. Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool. WAVE is developed and made available as a free community service by WebAIM. Originally launched in 2001, WAVE has been used to evaluate the accessibility of millions of web pages.

Web Commandments: Ten Deadly Sins and How to Overcome Them by Constance J. Petersen, written for VBTech Journal, revised Aug. 1999.

Web Page Word Counter from WordCounter.net. Enter the URL of the webpage you want counted. Instant result gives you the number of words on this web page and lists all of the words on the page under two categories: Non-Common Keywords and the number of times they appear as well as All Keywords and the number of times they appear on the page.

The Web Robots Pages - Learn how to direct robots that visit your Web site. Web Robots a re also called Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders.

Web Robots FAQ.

A Standard for Robot Exclusion.

Web Robots Database, Robots Mailing List, Articles, and more.

Web Robots and Information. "WWW Robots, often known as crawlers, 'bots, scrubbers, indexers or spiders, are programs that visit websites on the World Wide Web and recursively retrieve linked pages for the purpose of searching for resources or indexing sites for search engines." "How can I stop a robot from indexing my site or a portion of it?"

No Robots Please. A quick way to prevent robots visiting your site.

About the Robots <META> tag. You can use a special HTML <META>> tag to tell robots not to index the content of a page, and/or not scan it for links to follow.

Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition by Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton. Process, Interface design, Site design, Page design, Typography, Editorial style, Graphics, Multimedia.

WebMaster Tools from UK. Over 1500 free graphical and animated images.

Website Grader. Find out how strong is your website for FREE from HubSpot.

SiteChecker.pro. Get Free Website SEO Score Online. Improve your SEO rating with the best website checker.

woorank. Website Review Tool & SEO Checker. SEO Analysis Tool to Improve Website Traffic, Conversions and Usability. Try it for free.

RazorSocial. Website Analysis Tools: 7 Powerful and Free Tools by Ian Cleary, June 8, 2018.

SEOptimer. SEO Audit & Reporting Tool. Enter an URL address and get a Free Website Analysis!

SEO SiteCheckup. Search Engine Optimization Made Easy. Enter URL and check for all factors. User-friendly analysis.

Neil Patel SEO Analyzer. How much more traffic should you actually be getting? Start the quiz - 3 minutes. "What's your URL? (Neil will be running it through his analysis software as you are taking the quiz).

dareboost. Test, Analyze and Optimize your website. Web Performance, SEO, Security, Quality and more. Website Speed Test and Quality Check for Free.

What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content by Lorelle VanFossen. Information on Website hijacking, Copyright theft, Website theft.

What is SEO: A beginners guide by Fishtank, Apr 11, 2022. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. SEO refers to the process of optimising your website to increase the position in which your website appears on the search results page. The higher up your site is shown, the more people will see it and ultimately click through to your site.

Wise Disk Cleaner & Wise Registry Cleaner from Wise Cleaner.com. Free download. Freeware.

Zamzar. File conversion made easy. Convert documents, images, videos & sound - 1100+ formats supported. When you sign up for a paid Zamzar account, you can convert an unlimited number of files per day, which removes the 2 files per 24-hour-period limit for all free customers.

Popup stoppers, Ad blockers

Popup Blockers. Freeware downloads from SnapFiles.

Pop-Up Stopper Free Edition from Softonic.

Popup Stopper Software at Free Downloads Center. Shareware and freeware popup blockers or popup stoppers.

Win awards

Award Sites! Guides and Ratings. Purpose of site is to set standards for Website award. Over 1700 rated site awards listed in 8 levels (1.0 to 5.0) and 25 specific categories.

Awards. Please view awards this site has won since 1999.

Mona Lisa Select Site Award. Read specific criteria to win this award.

Website Awards. Apply to over 1000 Award Sites around the world.

Website awards from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Website Awards Worksheet. This Worksheet may be downloaded by anyone who wants to apply for awards. You can apply to hundreds of Award Sites around the world.

Yahoo! Search Directory: Best of the Web > Awards. List of Award Sites.

005.13 Programming languages (Computers), Web designs, Java, JavaScript, Perl, (Regular expressions)

Delphi Central. Delphi Tutorials, Hints, and Information about Delphi programming.

JavaScript.com. Javascript.com is the largest JavaScript repository online, containing over 7000 Javascripts.JavaScript Source: Free JavaScripts, Tutorials, Example Code - "cut and paste" JavaScript examples for your Web pages.

perlintro - Perl Tutorial.

Regular Expressions from the Open Group. Regular Expression Definitions, Regular Expression General Requirements, Basic Regular Expressions, Extended Regular Expressions, Regular Expression Grammar,

Regular Expressions Tutorial. Lesson on Regular Expressions by Scott A. Hommel, a technical writer on staff at Sun Microsystems.

Using Regular Expressions. What are regular expressions? What sort of things can I do with regular expressions? And the drawbacks? Why are they called "regular expressions?"How do I write a simple search pattern using a regular expression? How do I write a simple search-and-replace using regular expressions? and more. .

WebDevelopers.com. Topics include: ExtremeFlash, FlashKit, FlashPlanet, Gif.com, Java Boutique, ScriptSearch, StreamingMedia, Voice XMLPlanet, XML 101, Internet News, Internet Investing, Internet Technology, Linux/Open Source, ECommerce, ISP and ASP Resources, Wireless Internet, Downloads, Internet and Copyright Law, and more.

005.7 HTML (Document markup language), CSS (Cascading style sheets)

5 Best Free HTML Editor Software Tools for Your Site by Tirena Dingeldein in IT Management, Sep. 12, 2019.

HTML Tutorial for Beginners. YouTube video, 11:57 min. Published by LearnCode.academy, Aug 1, 2018.
HTML Elements Reference from Mozilla Developer. This page lists all the HTML elements, which are created using tags. They are grouped by function to help you find what you have in mind easily. Jump to: Main root, Document metadata, Sectioning root, Content sectioning, Text content, Inline text semantics, Image and multimedia, Embedded content, Scripting, Demarcating edits, Table content, Forms, Interactive elements, Web Components, Obsolete and deprecated elements.
HTML Codes - HTML Special Characters. HTML Codes to Add Special Characters on Your Web Page.
Learn HTML / CSS / XML. The information on this page will help you learn the languages that make up the Web.
Learn HTML. The easiest way to learn HTML and CSS. Learn HTML provides an interactive tutorial that explains how to build HTML and CSS websites step by step.
HTML Tutorials - XHTML Tutorials.

The Bare Bones Guide to HTML. Lists every official HTML tag in common usage, plus Netscape and Microsoft extensions. Downloadable in several formats and available in 21 different languages.

Beginners' Guide to HTML. How to Make Your First Web Site. All About HTML for Beginners: Starting with the Basics by Web Developer? Staff.

BellaOnline: The Voice of Women - HTML. Simple tutorials on What You Need to Write in HTML, Say Hello World in HTML, HTML Body Tag, HTML Image Tag, and HTML Anchor Tag.

Best CSS Tutorials from The Internet from DicoveryVIP.com. Includes CSS Reference Table.

Best HTML Tutorials from The Internet from DiscoveryVIP.com. Includes HTML Guide: Full HTML Tag Definition Lists.

The Best Online HTML Editor. This free HTML WYSIWYG editor program allows you edit your source code online without downloading any application.

Building a School Web Site by Wanda Wigglebits. Designed for beginners.

Cascading Style Sheet Style Guide. CSS Style Guide.

Cascading Style Sheet - Glossary of CSS Terms - Basic CSS terms with example code, from Code Style.
CSS Font Family Property Glossary - Understand Web font jargon.
Media dependent style sheet glossary - Print style sheets and more.
CSS font sampler and survey - The Code Style font sampler is a guide to the most common fonts on Windows, Mac and Linux. Use the font sampler to pick the right font style codes for your site.

Cascading Style Sheets, level 1. W3C Recommendation 17 Dec 1996, revised 11 Apr 2008. Reference material containing authoritative and detailed specifications on everything you need to know about level 1 Cascading Style Sheets. See also Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification. W3C Candidate Recommendation 08 September 2009.

HTML: Creating a Web Page by Paul Grabowicz and Scot Hacker, from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

CSS Quick Tutorial. An easy to follow basic introduction to Cascading Style Sheets. See also reference guide to CSS.

Dr. Watson. Type in your URL, Dr. Watson will analyze your Webpage on the Internet. 1 - Analyze HTML syntax. 2 - Verify regular links. 3 - Verify image links. 4 - Generate word counts. 5 - Spell-check non-HTML text. 6 - Compute estimated download speeds. 7 - Check search engine compatibility. 8 - Check site link popularity. All for free.

Free HTML Page Maker Online Generator. Free Online Web Page Editor from CreatingOnline.com.

HTML 101: Back to Basics. Tutorial aims to teach you plain HTML, from scratch.

HTML and CSS Tutorials. And Stuff.. HTML Dog, the web designer's resource for everything HTML and CSS, the most common technologies used in making web pages. Tutorials. References. Articles. Examples.

HTML Check & Repair. Useful HTML tools from NetMechanic. Include: Automatically find and repair HTML code errors with one quick click. HTML Check & Repair: discovers bad HTML tags and syntax. HTML Toolbox automatically fixes html problems upon request with one quick click. Spell check: automatically checks for spelling errors in 11 languages. HTML Validator: site checks your whole site in one swoop, on one command, making maintenance easy.

HTML Code Tutorial. Free reference guide for help with HTML.

HTML Codes - Characters and symbols. Table of ASCII characters and symbols. Table of special characters includes ASCII - Dec & Hex, Symbol, HTML Number, HTML Name, and Description.

HTML.net. Free tutorials. Everyone can learn how to make a website. Use tutorials on HTML and CSS and PHP and JavaScript and start building your own website in about an hour.

HTML TIDY from W3C. Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY. Free download.

HTML Tutorial from W3School. Learn how to use HTML to create your own Web pages.

HTML Tutorial from W3Schools.com.
HTML Element Reference. HTML Tags Ordered Alphabetically.
HTML Forms. An HTML form is used to collect user input. The user input is most often sent to a server for processing.
W3Schools HTML Tutorials include: HTML Introduction HTML Editors HTML Basic HTML Elements HTML Attributes HTML Headings HTML Paragraphs HTML Styles HTML Formatting HTML Quotations HTML Comments HTML Colors HTML CSS HTML Links HTML Images HTML Tables HTML Lists HTML Block & Inline HTML Classes HTML Id HTML Iframes HTML JavaScript HTML File Paths HTML Head HTML Layout HTML Responsive HTML Computercode HTML Semantics HTML Style Guide HTML Entities HTML Symbols HTML Emojis HTML Charset HTML URL Encode HTML vs. XHTML HTML Forms HTML Forms HTML Form Attributes HTML Form Elements HTML Input Types HTML Input Attributes HTML Input Form Attributes HTML Graphics HTML Canvas HTML SVG HTML Media HTML Media HTML Video HTML Audio HTML Plug-ins HTML YouTube HTML APIs HTML Geolocation HTML Drag/Drop HTML Web Storage HTML Web Workers HTML SSE HTML Examples HTML Examples HTML Quiz HTML Exercises HTML Certificate HTML Summary HTML Accessibility HTML References HTML Tag List HTML Attributes HTML Global Attributes HTML Browser Support HTML Events HTML Colors HTML Canvas HTML Audio/Video HTML Doctypes HTML Character Sets HTML URL Encode HTML Lang Codes HTTP Messages HTTP Methods PX to EM Converter Keyboard Shortcuts

HTML Tutorials with Style. Tutorials presented in a humorous way following the KISS principle, i.e. Keep It Simple Stupid. Teaches use of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) to create Web pages from simple to advanced.

Introduction to HTML from W3Schools.
Introduction to HTML from MDN Web Docs (previously known as MDN - the Mozilla Developer Network).
HTML Tutorial from TutorialsPoint.
HTML History.
HTML Lessons Menu.
HTML Forms.
7 Day Course in HTML.
How to Build Frames.
How to Do Layers.
HTML - Tag from tutorialspoint, Simply Easy Learning.
Creating Layers on Your Web Pages with Divs by Bradley Jones.
HTML Helper Page. Type in your text, test your webpage and see results immediately.
Technical and Repair Information.

Learning HTML for Kids: A Step-by-Step Tutorial. What is HTML? Basic concepts, Primary tags, Lists, Attributeys, Graphics, Tables, and more.

Lissa Explains It All. Excellent, brightly colored tutorial for kids. Basics, HTML, Frames, Tables, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), Add Color, Java Script, Fun Stuff (Image maps, Counters, Marquees, Music ...) and Tools.

Meta Tag Analyzer. Helps you design a more robot friendly Web page. Provides free online General HTML Analysis, HTML Title Tag Analysis, and META Tag Analysis.

Top 10 Best Website Builders of 2014. Today's easy-to-use website builders, complete with drag & drop editors and an endless choice of templates and functions, help users create a website within minutes.

W3C MarkUp Validation Service. Free service that checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards. Includes Site Valet, WDG Validator, CSS Validator, Link Checker, HTML Tidy, Tidy Online, and other valuable tools.

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