Design Tips & Tutorials
- Back to Basics: META Tag Resources / WebDeveloper.com ® - A guide to the meta tag.
- A Beginner's Guide to HTML - An excellent guide to all important HTML features. (National Center for Superconductor Applications, Univ. of Illinois)
- Beginning HTML at htmlgoodies.com - Good step-by-step instructions on various HTML features such as tables and forms.
- CNET Builder.com - Web Authoring - Spotlight on HTML
- HTML Compendium - Comprehensive HTML reference, well maintained and an essential HTML tool.
- NCSA - A Beginner's Guide to HTML
- Webmonkey for Kidshot - A great introduction to making web pages. It's easy to navigate and understand and filled with practical information.
- WebKIDS - A complete tutorial on basic and advanced HTML, with tips and tricks for web design. For both beginning and advanced web designers.
- Web Genies - A colorful, interactive site that is especially good for novice web designers. The language is easy to understand, all lessons are easy to follow, and a glossary is available.
Graphics, Images & Color Tools
- Cool Text - Allows users to create their own banners and logos that look great and require little or no previous experience in web graphic design.
- html Gear - Sponsored by Lycos, this site has free add-ons for a web site such as guest books and counters to enhance a site and make it more interactive.
- Browser-Safe Colors by Hue - Table of 216 safe colors, arranged by color. (Lynda Weinman)
- Browser Safe Colors by Value - Table of 216 safe colors, arranged lightest to darkest. (Lynda Weinman)
- ClipArtConnection.com
- Microsoft® Design Gallery Live
Free Web Page Hosting
The following Internet Sites may be of interest to young adults (ages 14-18). Due to the unregulated nature of the Internet, the Library cannot monitor the sites to which it links, nor any subsequent links, and cannot accept responsibility for the content or availability of those sites.
Books & Reading
- American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
- Best Books for Young Adults
- Bibliography Central!
- Book Forager (Adult/Young Adult) (Java) - A fun book-finding tool. Set your arrows right where you want them on Happy-to-Sad, Safe-to-Frightening, Gentle-to-Violent spectrums (and several others), and let Book Forager find titles to match. It loads a Java Applet, which may or may not run on later editions of Internet Explorer (litigation pending).
- Camel's Hump Radio
- Carnegie Library Teen Picks
- Comic Art & Graffix Gallery©
- Comic Book Net
- Comic Book Resources - Comic Book News, Reviews and Commentary - Updated Daily!
- Comic Books Internet Resources
- Comics.com
- Cool Stuff about Reading
- DC COMICS
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award (Ages 8-14) - Thirty books, fiction and nonfiction, are selected by a special Vermont panel each year for kids in grades 4-8 to read and study throughout the year. Then they vote for their favorite in March. This site has the latest list, and several from past years.
- Finding the YA Book Reviews
- Free Comic Book Day
- Genrefluent's Teen Resources
- Graphic Novels
- Graphic Novels
- Marvel Entertainment
- Poetry Pages for Young Adults
- Sci-Fi Fan
- Series and Sequels
- Teen Books
- TeenReads
- VPR presents Camel's Hump Radio Have You Read...
- YA Literature
- YALSA - Booklists
- Young Adult Book Lists
- Young Adult Reading
College & Careers (see also Job Hunting & Schools & Financial Aid
Free Software and Shareware
- CNET's download.com - An exhaustive resource of more than 40,000 software programs available for free or trial that can be downloaded via the Internet.
- The Internet Movie Machine - Animation software to download for free that is a lot of fun for beginning animators of all ages.
- Rocket Download - A comprehensive archive of reviewed shareware, freeware, and demo software.
Health
Homework Help (see also Children's Sites & Databases & Homework Helps)
- Ask Dr. Math
- Biography.com http://www.biography.com
- Botany - Plant parts & function
- Botany (Plant Science)
- Daily Life Site
- Elements of Style http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
- The Encyclopedia Mythica - An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore and legend.
- Getting an A on an English Paper
- Guide for Writing English Papers
- High School Hub
- History RefDesk
- Lives, the Biography Resource
- National Eating Disorders Association
- Online Biology Book
- Online Biology Project
- Plagiarism Q & A
- SparkNotes
- Study Guides & Strategies
- WebElements Periodic Table
- Where Teens Reign Supreme
Sports
What's Hot
- 4 Girls Health
- Brain Food - Puzzles for the brain to gnaw on
- Entertainment - Young Adult
- Harry Potter Network
- Hennepin County Library TeenLinks
- iEmily.com
- Internet Cartoons Forum - The Community Center for Cartoonophiles
- Internet Movie Database - Check out what flicks are out & get reviews
- Internet Public Library Teen Division
- Kids and Teens
- Kids shouldn't smoke
- Lord of the Rings
- Miniclip
- National Eating Disorders Association
- No Flying, No Tights
- OutProud - Be Yourself
- Raven Days
- Slashdot
- Something Fishy - Eating disorders
- Songfacts
- Student of the Month -- XL92
- Teen Growth
- TeensHealth.org
- TeenLink
- Teen Sites
- Vermont-NEA Hot Links for Kids