Web Page Editing Tools

Color Charts

CLEAR CSS Generator - The CSS Generator is the fast and easy way to generate CSS coding for colors, fonts, and margins by choosing colors from the color chart and entering values for font and margins.
ColorPicker 3.1 - Choose the colors you want on your web page and see how they will look. A copy of ColorPicker is available for download for use on your own computer.
Color Maker - Try this site if you want to see what your page will look like using various colors and backgrounds. The code you need for your page is provided.
Doug's RGB Hex Triplet Color Chart - One of the first available, this includes a color chart that has both hexadecimal and RGB numbers. It also lists the non-dithering colors that are safe for the Web.
HYPE's Color Specifier - Want the code for White Smoke, Burlywood, or Peach Puff 2? This colorful chart gives you the hex codes and rgb codes for every color imaginable. Choose your colors from this extensive color chart. Includes RGB Hex codes and decimal codes.
RGB Color Values - From the Web Design Group (WDG), a chart showing some of the most frequently used color choices for web pages
Sky CSS Tool - Allows you to quickly generate CSS code for color schemes, lists, borders, margins, and much more.
Visibone's Webmaster's Color Lab - Click a color, get it's codes and complimentary colors to help you design.

Graphics

Clip Art Connection - Lots of free web clip art and animated gifs. Incredible! If you can't find what you need from this list of links, it doesn't exist.
Digital Camera Basics - Great beginner site for anyone who wants to buy a digital camera or learn the basics of good digital picture taking
Digital Photography Tutorials - From Photoxels, many tutorials, written in easy to understand terminology, on how to take great pictures.
A Few Scan Tips (Scantips.com) - Tips for beginners on how to best use your scanner
Open Clip Art Library - High quality public domain images to use freely.
desktopPublishing.com: The ULTIMATE Desktop Publishing Resource - An advanced site with product reviews, links to incredible clipart, and web site templates.
Corel - The publisher of Paint Shop Pro offers some great tips.
GIF Wizard - SHRINK the file size of your GIF graphics so that they load faster.

Web Development

Bare Bones Guide to HTML
PageResource.com
SitePoint - An excellent source for learning the basics to the most advanced cutting-edge techniques. For the beginner, check out Learn HTML and CSS: An Absolute Beginner's Guide
Validate CSS - Check a live stylesheet, upload a file or directly input code
Validate HTML - Check a live web page, upload a file or directly input code
W3Schools - Easy-to-use tutorials on HTML, CSS and more
Webmonkey (Lycos) - Information for beginners, builders, and masters with a "how-to" library and quick reference guides 
WebDeveloper.com - For those who are serious about developing web sites
Web Diner Inc. - Web Page Tutorials, Help, Downloadable Clipart and More! along with downloadable font collections
 

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