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Web Browsers

Netscape is the current market leader with Version 4.0 of Netscape Navigator being their "Official" release, which is available for many computing platforms.
Microsoft is next on most lists, with it's Internet Explorer 3.0 for Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, and Macintosh.
NCSA Mosaic, hey it started with this one a couple versions back. The last of the Mosaic browsers, version 3.0 was recently released.
UdiWWW a HTML3 browser
Arena a HTML3 browser
and Yahoo! also has a list (which is bigger).

Well that should be a start.

HTML Editors

If you're using Windows, you can use that nifty program called notepad. Any text editor (vi, emacs, pico, or SimpleText) is fine for HTML and allows fro better control of the web page design. Sure there are wysiwyg editors, but they have a habit of creating lousy code that doesn't validate, plus we're all pretty much code snobs here. :-)

Graphics Programs

Photoshop from Adobe is the most popular for graphical work. Available for PCs, MACs, and UNIX systems.
Paint Shop Pro from JASC feature packed for a good price. Available for the Windows only.

Pluggins

Metatools the makers of Kai's Power Tools 3.0 a great set of plugins for textures and transformations.
ULead Web Extensions
But Plugins aren't always need as we prove with this quick tutorial for drop shadows with Paint Shop Pro.

Web Graphics

First pick the appropriate format for the graphic. The general rule is for photos use jpeg and images with sudden color changes and fewer colors (drawings) with gif.

Then optimize the graphic from there. Jpegs can have the compression settings modified so that the file size is smaller. Whereas with gif files, you can reduce the number of colors in the palette, which will decrease the file size.

Bandwidth Conservation Society gives suggestions for optimizing graphics for the web.

There is also the problem that systems that can only display 256 colors, may not be able to display all the colors so then dithering of the image will occur. Netscape has adopted a 216 color palette that is common between their PC and Mac browsers.

Other Pages

A Decimal to Hex Color Converter and test for your background, text, and link colors.

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