I have here gathered some very useful links to a veriety of different tools that you can download for free and use to assemble your own mighty homepage creations. This page will show you that a nice homepage doesnīt have to cost you one single dime! In time I will add new programms as I find them.

When creating homepages youīll first need basic programs such as a HTML-editor and a program to create and personalise your homepages graphics. When this is done you can add music and try some cool Javascripts. Animated gifs will also give an extra touch to your page. But Iīd like to put out a big warning flag for those animated gifs, donīt use too many! There is nothing worse than a homepage that flickers in every corner. You shold use the fact that the human eye attracts to movement and use animated gifs where you want the visitor to pay his/her attention.

What you must also think of is the fact that you canīt use too much graphics, that means that your site would become very big and heavy to download, most visitors hate waiting. A good homepage should be simple to navigate threw. Divide your homepage into categories and create an easy navigation interface with (to prefer) graphical buttons (like mine on the left side of this page). If you donīt know what you want your page to look like use the internet for inspiration. Thereīs millions of good looking pages out there to inspire you. Learn from others misstakes and good things. A good thing is to connect the looks of your page with the contents.

There are three different kinds of HTML-editors   graphical, semi- graphical and textbased. The graphicals are best for beginners. (They donīt require any codeing skills).

1. Einstein HTML Pro

This is a very good editor, in Swedish.

  1. Paint Shop Pro

The best shareware editor there is. A very good thing is that itīs possible to use photoshop filters with this program. (For PC).

2. The Cheaper Image

This is a good editor for the Mac. You can use photoshop plugins with this program too.

The formats used on the Internet is gif or jpeg, if you want to publish for example a bmp picture you have to convert it to either jpeg or gif. Jpeg uses High colors and supports compression, gif only uses 256 colors but allows transparancy(GIF89a).

1. Graphic Workshop

Shareware 40 USD. (PC)

2. GraphicConverter

30 USD. (Mac)

When animating gifs you make a couple of pictures which you then put together as an animation in a gif animation program.

1. GifConstructionSet

This is the program I use for gif animation. (PC)

2. WWW GIF Animator

This program focuse at text animation and banners.

3. GifBuilder

Gif animation for the Mac.

A java editor will help you add javascripts to your HTML documents.

1. Hot Chili

Shareware 29,95 USD. (PC)

2. MacOS Runtime for Java Software Developer Kit

Apples Java editor. You can program your own Javascripts with this one. (Mac).