Webmaster tools
 

Keeping Viruses, Hackers, and Worms at bay
Back up, Back up, Backup, make sure that even if you loose a battle, you don't loose the war. If you don't have the money for a tape backup adding an inexpensive CDR to your system allows you to back up on CDs

Use the best Antivirus program you can buy.  We recommend Norton Antivirus from Symantec for both the client and server. Tests have shown and our experience agrees that they do the best job keeping viruses and worms at bay.

Use an Anti Trojan software. Most people miss this one  but there are a lot of script kiddies out there pulling down code from malicious sites and using it to gain access to other peoples computers. This site goes into detail about Trojans.

Block Access to your Computer, use a Firewall. Close ports that are not being used. The best software firewall that we've seen is Zone Alarm  from Zone Labs. It lets you know if someone is trying to access your computer or if your computer is trying to report information to someone.

 

Scripts and Graphics bring a Website to life
Java Scripts provide animation and function to Websites.  Fortunately there are a lot of Java Scripts available on the internet . This saves a lot of time writing and debugging when someone else has already done most of the work.

We need some pretty pictures to go along with that text.  Around here, the hands down Favorite Graphics Program for designing static drawings and short gif animations is Corel

Flash has changed the look of  the Web.  A word of caution, using Flash or heavy animation over a slow connection can cause the surfer to click away before they get to see your great graphics. Be sure animation is important to your customer. Having said that,  definitely we recommend Macromedia for Flash

 

HTML Editor resources and Web Server tools
If your going to host websites on a Windows Server,  you need somewhere to turn for help. What better place to turn to for help than the source of the problem. After all you paid big bucks for the software.

Annoyances.org one of the most complete collections of information assembled for and by actual users of Microsoft Windows. Explore this free web resource by selecting one of its many destinations
Windows NT has a number of private sites dedicated to helping users overcome various flaws and peculiarities of Windows  Servers.

Ask Web Designers what the top three HTML editors are and FrontPage will always be included. Sometimes it's number one, sometimes number two, some times number three but it's always there

Microsoft is still bad at writing instruction manuals.  No one  seems to know why.  They certainly have the money to hire good writers. One guess is that they're using programmers as writers to make things needlessly complex. Anyway, these people can help.