Heather's Random Links
This is where I share all my favourite places to go on the Web that are not writing-related. They are divided into categories:
All-time favourites
Cool informational sites
Website creation sites
All-time favourites
The Hunger Site - Click on the button, and sponsors donate food to hungry people around the world, distributed through the UN's World Food Program. You can donate once per day, so bookmark it and visit often.
It Pays To Learn - Sign up and take fun multiple-choice quizzes in a wide variety of subject areas, and earn "cash points" that can be redeemed for money. Highly, highly addictive.
Spedia - One of the only "pay to surf" programs that not only is still around but still offers decent rates. You can earn points with their ad bar, by reading promotional e-mails, by signing up for various things through them, etc.
Completely FREE Software - My favourite freeware site. All freeware (no demos or shareware), and all good quality. Most of it is reviewed. There's some great stuff here.
Cool Information Sites
Urban Legends Reference Pages - I could spend hours browsing through here (and I have, on occasion). Urban legends, those annoying e-mail hoaxes, you name it, it's here. Very entertaining and informative.
AllHealth Online Psych - A bunch of quizzes and stuff, quite fun.
Website Creation Links
Prohosting - My web space provider! 15 megs of space for free, including cgi access (if that's what turns your crank... I don't bother, myself) and until recently no forced ads. They also offer professional web hosting (not free) with domain names and all that jazz. Their free pages are here.
Buttonz! and Tilez!
This is a pair of really great toys tools that allows anybody, even someone as graphically challenged as myself, to make cool buttons and background tiles. I made all my backgrounds and buttons using these programs.
1st Page 2000 - This is the HTML editor I use for fancier stuff. I use it most for its ability to let me make templates for different kinds of documents (thus eliminating the need to copy and paste code from one novel chapter to another) and a few other features. Plus it comes with a bunch of Javascripts and stuff, which I'll eventually start playing with if I get bored enough.
Image Tagger - This small program inserts height and width (and optionally, alt and border) tags for images into your html files if you're too lazy to do it yourself. (The reason you want these tags is that it speeds up page loading times.) It can add tags to up to 50 files at a time.
Biginfo - Lots of resources for the webmasterfully inclined. Yes, I know that's not a real word.
