Free-Backgrounds.com - click
on the download link to get the background not the Free Signup link or
you will be inundated with lots of junk mail. To download the background,
right-click on the background of the sample web page (the page you see
after clicking on the download link) and choose Save Background As...
Web Graphic Archive -
10,000+ free web graphics (arrows, lines, bullets, buttons, balls, clipart,
and icons for use in web pages or desktop publishing)
The Free Graphics
Store - Free web graphics classified by type (graphics, backgrounds,
bullets, strip backgrounds, animated gifs, lines & pointers, guest
artists, and icons)
Animation Factory - Over 30,000
original animations and designs for use on web pages, e-mail, and presentations.
(requires a link on your web page back to Animation Factory)
The Clip Art Connection - Searchable
free resource for all types of images and digital imagery. Thousands of
local images plus hundreds of clipart related links.
Calendars
Net - A free online web calendar host. Create and edit your calendars
directly on line at this website then link your calendar to your own web
page. Click here to
see an example.
Free Weather Stickers for your Homepage
(Caution: The weather sticker does not remain current if your web
page is saved or published through Netscape Composer)
Quia - Create a game or quiz (13
types of games, 2 types of quizzes), fill out the Game Editor or Quiz Editor,
then link the URL of your game or quiz to your web page. (Free 30 day trial
period or $49 per year)
Fun Brain - create online quizzes
and have the results e-mailed back to you ($29.95 per year)
Hot Potatoes - The
Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive
multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering
and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware,
but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make
their pages available on the web. Click
here to see an example.
Counters/Trackers
eXTReMe Tracking
- With the eXTReMe Tracker you get every advanced feature required to picture
the visitors of your website. Conveniently arranged, numbers, percentages,
stats, totals and averages, all the way up from simple counting your visitors
until tracking the keywords they use to find you. Click on the picture
to see an example of the statistics for this website.
Search Engine Registration
SiteAdd - Submit your site to the
top search engines - Free
Submit Free - Add your
website to the top 27 search engines for Free
Bravenet Web Services
- This free tool is one of the simplest methods for mass search engine
submission - enter your URL, check a few boxes and click a button.
Search Engines to put on your Website
Pico Search Engine - PicoSearch
offers free search for sites up to 1,500 pages, with unlimited searching.
Improving your Website
Web Site Garage - provides
services for maintaining and improving your Web site such as automateing
site maintenance checks, optimizing graphics and analyzing traffic.
Links
Checkers - Contains links to websites that will verify every link on
every one of your pages.
AnyBrowser.com - Contains web
site analysis tools, web site tune ups, web site maintenance tools and
more.
Working with Graphics
GIFWorks - Create your own special
effects with any GIF -- even animated ones! Resize it, colorize it, optimize
it, and jazzercise it -- then save it and take it with you.
Click
Publish - step-by-step instructions for publishing web pages and changing
your password in the Davis School District using Netscape Composer (you
must first have a username & password). If you do not have Netscape
on your computer click
here and choose the link to download versions 4.7x and 4.8.
FTP - step-by-step
instructions for publishing web pages in the Davis School District using
WS-FTP (a free program for educators). A link to download the latest FTP
software is included. You do not have to have Netscape on your computer
to use FTP.
Creating
Classroom Webs contains steps to get you started creating a classroom
web page and also some excellent examples of Elementary, Jr. High, and
High School classroom web pages
ThinkQuest
- These are competitions that include the ThinkQuest Internet Challenge
and ThinkQuest Junior. As part of these competitions, students and educators
form teams and develop educational websites which are then published to
the Library.
