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Feature Pages/Articles
Project FeederWatch
More than 10,000 participants across North America have made Project FeederWatch part of their winter ritual. Get involved!
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Feature Pages/Articles
Bearded Dragon Care Sheet
The Inland Bearded Dragon rightfully earns its name by the very pronounced beard sometimes shown in defensive displays as well as during mating behavior.
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A Day at a Dog Show
Ever been to a dog show? Get the inside scoop from an expert!
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Straight Talk About Pedigreed Cats & Kittens
What does it mean that your cat has a "pedigree"? Is there such a thing as a purebred cat? How can you find a good cat breeder, and select the right cat breed for you?
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Traveling With Birds
Whether summer or winter, holiday time can mean travel - either for vacation or moving.
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Betta Care
One of the first things a new betta owner notices is the betta's large personality.
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DESERT MILLIPEDE
Desert Millipedes are a cylindrically-shaped arthropod in the Class Diplopoda. Coloration can range from a light tan to a dark brown. Some individuals are an orange or a burnt orange color and these can be beautiful.
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Helping Injured and Orphaned Baby Animals
Wild baby animals are better left with and raised by wild parents, but sometimes the parents are hurt or dead. Wildlife rehabilitator Kathy Bernhardt suggests what to do in case you find a baby animal.
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Recommended Software

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Web Browsers

World Wide Web applications are interactive access programs that can be utilized to access data from the web, FTP, gopher, and telnet applications, to name a few. WWW browsers have graphical interfaces and display pictures; in addition, applications viewed through browsers will become "point and click" applications.

Windows Macintosh
Linux/FreeBSD Other OS's

FTP Clients

File Transfer Protocol is the ability to send and receive files from other computers. FTP programs vary widely in their features, from simple programs that let you select a file and tell it where to upload to, to programs that let you schedule uploads and downloads and more. As with most programs, make sure you get one that does what you need but don't bother with a ton of features you'll never use!

Windows Macintosh

HTML Editors

Hyper-Text Markup Language is the language used for writing pages for the World Wide Web. HTML Editors assist the author by providing buttons and icons that insert the necessary tags.

Windows Macintosh
  • Edit Plus
  • UltraEdit 32

    • If you prefer editing your .html by hand or need a good .html reference guide kingsnake.com recommends the 2 resource books below:

    Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML & XHTML in 21 Days
     
    by by Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn

    HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition

    by Elizabeth Castro

     

    Graphics Programs

    Image Editors
    Image editors are the various programs you can use to change your images in any way. From simple conversion programs to advanced special effects, you can find it here.

    Windows Macintosh

    Animated (Moving) GIFs
    Animated graphics have become the standard on most web pages. In this section, you will find an assortment of programs designed specifically to create and edit these animations.

    Windows Macintosh

    Image Mappers
    These programs assist you in creating clickable image maps, where the visitor can click on different areas of an image to go to different links. Most modern web browsers support the "client-side image maps" that these programs generate.

    Windows  
     

    Log File Analysers

    Would you like to know who has visited your site, get charts and graphs of visits? If so, then this section is for you. These applications provide basic HTTPD log analysis, reporting and more.

    Windows Macintosh

    File Compression Utilities

    Archiving utilities allow an individual to compress/decompress files, making them smaller for uploading, downloading, putting on disk, etc. To decompress the file, you usually need a decompression program of the same format, to expand the files and make them usable again. There are many different formats of compression which vary in popularity. Currently ZIP is the most popular, but other formats such as ARJ, RAR, and even LHA and ARC have their adherents.

    Windows Macintosh

    For the most complete listing of internet and
    web design tools on the net check out     TUCOWS

     

     

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