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MS Clipart, SXC, Free-Graphics, FreeFoto, FreePhotoBank,
FreeRangeStock, FreeStockPhotos, JupiterImages,
WindowsOnOurWorld, Clipart.com, Clipartconnection, Freewebtemplates
A selection of image and clipart sites.

AnimationFactory, Animations, BestTemplates, DynamciFactory, DreamTemplate, FreeFlashTemplate, Perfectory and TemplateMonster
A selection of animated clipart sites.

ephotozne, on-line magazine,
kodak (world) home, kodak (UK) home, kodak digital learning centre
A selection of sites related to photography, both digital and traditional

Animated gif collection, Gif construction set,
some sites related to making animated gifs.

Ardman, Artem, Artcrimes, Comics Dot Com, Clipartconnection,
Core-industrial design, Disney, Dreamworks,
Industrial Light and Magic, Kings comics, Pixar,
Sito, Spumco, Screenbean Clipart, World-wide art, Wildbrain.com
A selection of sites which contain graphics and design ideas.

Comic Art at Princeton Uni, Cartoon Art Museum,
Comic Research Bibiolography,
Ohio State Uni Cartoon Research Library.
More sites for people and professionals interested in graphics and design on the web.

Beginners guide,
Learn the basics of html.

W3school, JAVAscriptKit
Advice on how to program scripting languages built into many browsers.

DreamWeaver, a basic tutorial, downloadable manual,
DreamWeaver templates, resources, info and links,
FrontPage, FrontPage in the classroom,
FrontPageHowTo, TemplatesAndThemes,
DreamWeaver and FrontPage, two of the most common commercial web authoring packages.

Paint.Net, Corel graphics software,
Fireworks, Flash, Director, NVu, Komposer,
Adobe Acrobat Home, Adobe Acrobat Design Centre
Other popular software for authoring web content.

Live news information (RSS Feeds, BBC News , Moreover, NewsFeedMaker), hit counters (StatCounter,TheCounter), community hosts (Yuku, ForumCo, CamFrog, EZboard, Google Apps), embedded data (GoogleDocs), mail services (EveryOne, Google Mail), word puzzles (WordWeb), embedded media (photogalleries, YouTube video, Google Maps, Google Earth, Stickam webcam feeds, UstreamTV webcam feeds, GCast free podcasting, Live365 commercial Podcasting and radio), online surveys (free-online-surveys.co.uk, freeonlinesurverys.com, webonlinesurveys), TIBCO AJAX Toolset, Desktop SDK, WebToolKit, WebMasterTools, Maps API, AJAX tools, Google Talk and if all the preceding items are not enough, visit the weballey guide to web tools.
Services that enable you to embed information and data within a web site. 

Java, Microsoft.Net (free) Express Editions,
MySQL, MyPHP, PostgreSQL, Firebird
General programming tools and database programming tools.

Browsers.com
Library of links for browser plug-ins and Active-X controls.

Acrobat viewer, Windows MediaCentre, Flash Player,
Apple iTunes, Apple QuickTime,RealPlayer, Shockwave
A number of popular media enhancements that can be useful when browsing.

WhoIs
A place where you can find out if the web name you want is free.

onebigworld reviews, uk web hosting guide,
123-reg, freeservers, HeartInternet or DotEasy
(with other hosts suggested by
freewebspace.net and free-webhosts.com)
Some links to help you find the kind of webhost that you need.

ThinkFree and MediaMax.
Web storage solutions.

EasyPano virtual tour software, PanoGuide products and galleries,
VirtualPix tourmaker, PTgui panoraic images, Isee Media virtual tour software, pixaround.com, arm-chair-travel, mbvirtualtours,
QuickTime VR tutorial, making a vr tour, vrml web portal,
escience lectures introduction to virtual reality,
A whole set of tools related to virtual tours and vrml.

Java, Microsoft.Net (free) Express Editions,
MySQL, MyPHP, PostgreSQL, Firebird
General programming tools and database programming tools.

BASIC archives
An archive of code to help people getting to grips with programming in BASIC.

Microsoft Examples
Sample code from Microsoft

w3schools, Code101,
The Code Project, FreeVBCode,
DeveloperFusion, CodeAve, VBnet,
dotnet2themax, ASPindex, TekTips,
MindCracker, Mentalis.org, developer.com,
Laura Lemay's web workshop, VBacceleratror,
VBCE code for WinCE, Sun Java tutorials, CodeToad,
VBhelper, Sybase online books on programming,
AllAPI guide to api calls with code samples,
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional program links
There are many sites devoted to presenting snippets of code, and also explaining how to edit that code. These are great places in which to learn new programming techniques. Try some of the addresses listed above, and add those you like to your favorites.

Word VBA code by Zawawi,
Deborah Pate's guide to automating Outlook,
Dicks advice on automating Outlook and Excel,
MSDN advice on how to move files in Outlook,
MS Outlook HowTo advice,
Outlook Code with code and advice on automating Outlook,
developer.com advice on ftp using the vb inet control,
MSDN advice on exporting data to Access,
MSDN advice on automating Access from VB,
ExcelAdvisor,
Access web links to advice on Access,
Programming MS Access,
FAQ for Access Programming,
Publishing an Access report to the web
As well as general programmign sites, there are also quite a few that deal with MS Office. and automating aspects of Office.

Greymatter catalogue of plugins for.NET,
Greymatter catalogue of OCX / ActiveX plugins,
Greymatter catalogue of DLL and LIBRARY plugins,
Greymatter developer links,
VBextras catalogue of developers' components,
Total Visual Sourcebook,
Sky Software Windows Explorer active-x plugin,
VoiceInsert active-x,
WordOCX active-x,
VideoOCX active-x,
CapturePro active-x,
Clickatell smsmessaging code ,
Visual Studio service pack info,
Microsoft dll database,
Free Acrobat Editor,
PlanetPDF,
Adobe Acrobat support,
BetweenBorders issues for publishing to both US and Uk readerships
One of the mistakes I made when I started programming was to not seek out ready made components that I could buy in - and thus save a lot of time, by not having to 're-invent' the wheel.

Microsoft Agent Resources,
Samples of coding a web page with an agent in it,
Samples of coding in Office,
MSDN advice of coding for agents,
MSDN advice on creating agent characters,
MSDN on the Agent Character Editor,
Microsoft Agent Resources: Speak Albert, Speak,
Microsoft Agent Ring Resources,
MASH Microsoft Agent Scripting Helper and Character Gallery,
MS Agent LaunchPad,
MS Agent Introduction to Programming,
EDICT Virtual Language Centre,
Reallusion Text-To-Speech engines,
Digalo Speech Tools,
British Dyslexia Society Textic software,
Audacity sound recorder,
Sound Recorder software for Windows,
More MP3 recording software
One of the really fun additions to Office and to the Windows programming environment is Microsoft Agent Technology. Use the links presented above to get up to speed with using agents to read to you.

XNA Game Studio Express
3D GameMaker,
DarkBasic and DarkBasic Pro games authoring resources,
gamedev.net portal,
gamedev.net physics tutorials,
gamasutra,
makegames.com
Want to go further? The preceding list is a list of tools for making your own computer games.

Burks
From Brighton University, a collection of links to other sites. Lots of texts and downloads for people of a technical disposition, designed for computer science students. Available on CD for a fee of £5, if you want to work off-line.

Cryptography for visual basic Data encryption techniques article and links, Cypherpunk site, SpyBase, Jane's Intelweb,spyorg portal, Followus, Verilocation
Some links to wider issues related to securing ideas and information.

Burks
From Brighton University, a collection of links to other sites. Lots of texts and downloads for people of a technical disposition, designed for computer science students. Available on CD for a fee of £5, if you want to work off-line.

Home Robots, info and links, Lego Mindstorms robot links,
Robosapien Home site, Active Robot kits, Robots Direct kits
Resources to enable you to make your own robots.

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