FAVORITE SITES
SEO for Homestead - SEO Building Blocks is the 'how-to' guide to search engine optimization for Homestead sites. Written by Homestead users, for Homestead users.
The Homestead Connection Forum for users of Homestead software. Learn - Share - Grow
Create a site map for the search engines or check out how your site looks to the spiders at XML-Site Maps. Visit the Sitemap Tutorial page for how to make and insert the sitemap into your Homestead pages.
HC Forum Moderator, glendal, offers up sound advice on web design (and some great recipes!).
Stat Counter is an excellent way to keep track of your visitors and the pages they view. Free
Turning your photos into thumbnails is a breeze with the EZ Thumbnails program. Free
With Irfan View you can edit images, apply a variety of effects, thumbnail and more. Free
Dynamic Drive offers scripts you can incorporate into your Homestead site design.
10,000+ Free Fonts at Better Fonts - Offers a paragraph preview of each font.
Google's Webmaster Help Center. Webmaster tools and guidelines.
Find out How Stuff Works on this fact-filled site that covers 'soup' to 'nuts'.
Free web building tutorials at W3Schools. Web building references and easy on-line examples.
FAVORITE TIPS
Browser Shots provides screen shots of your site in multiple browsers.
Get a site check-up. Site Analysis checks load time, links, meta tag check, and more. Free
Get a mouseover effect on hover, visited and active links.
Match the scrollbar color to your site. Works only in IE - other browsers show regular scroll bar color.
Directions to create a Site Map for your visitors and one for Google.
A PDF file. This color chart shows the colors used by Homestead software.
Add a Favicon and stand out from all the other bookmarked sites in your visitor's Favorites
The Webmaster's color laboratory. A great tool for choosing colors for your site.
Mask off the music element and still give visitors the option to turn the sound off.
How to put the Anfy photo scroller/effects on your Homestead site.
HC Favorite Sites & Tips
HC Favorite Sites & Tips
Clic Pic is a great program for creating photo galleries. Free Trial
