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I like making websites and music and crafts, and if you do too, here's some how-to's and links to help you on your way.

How-To's

The Hart Collective site has a great how-to for beginning web design.

This site has a great resources and how-to web for making zines: grrrlzines.net

Generally Useful Links for DIYers

* Creative Commons Copyright [Most of the above is lisenced under with their smart "Some Rights Reserved" copyright]

* URL Redirection: www.webalias.com

D I Y Audio - Shareware / Freeware / Mashup

Don't have Garageband? Can't afford ProTools or a mixing studio? NO PROBLEM!!! When I made my first album, it was with a 2001 Windows machine running ME, $40 of RAM, a $1.50 computer mic from the dollar store, and the following freeware:

• Audacity - MIXING/QUASI-MASTERING [for both PC & Mac]

• Windows Sound - Open your PC. Go to -->Start -->Accessories -->Entertainment -->Sound Recorder. It's there, promise. -WINDOWS SOUND RECORDER

• Modplug Tracker [PC only. Worth vetting a virtualizer] - Amazing, in use for over a decade by the underground. For making anything from beats to symphonies using basically a spreadsheet.

• HammerHead - Simple and fun drum machine for PC
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• Freesound - A catalouging project, the Free Sound music sharing project has lots of lovely samples. CC Liscensing.
  

Making & Having a Website:

Resources for learning HTML & CSS:
* Webmonkey: http://www.webmonkey.com [really good tutorials!]
* html.net: http://www.html.net/tutorials/css/ [made CSS super simple to 'get']
* W3Schools: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp [W3 web standards]
* HTML Goodies: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/
* HTML Code Tutorial: http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/

HTML Editors - Free/Shareware:
* NVU - for Mac
* Pagebreeze - for PC [most os's]
* CoffeCup - for PC [XP or Vista only]

Free Templates:
* http://www.oswd.org/ [OpenSourceWebsites]

Free Javascript / DHTML [to make nice things like the galleries on this site]:
*Dynamic Drive - free, original DHTML and Javascripts

Setting Up Your Website:
* Register a Domain Name [ex. www.myradsite.com]: http://www.godaddy.com
**Consider registering your Domain as "Private" - it is well worth the $8**

* Server Space to put the site [html and images] onto
o Free - http://www.freewebs.com [the original hadassahsbizzare was hosted there!]
o List of free hosts: free-webhosts.com
o Not Free, but *green!* - http://www.dreamhost.com

* Collect Your Stats - these are both free and simple.
o http://www.hitslog.com/ [definitely sold my info and made me get junk mail. tho]
o http://www.statcounter.com

Content Hadassah Hill 2005 - 2008. Webdesign by HeelsOnWheels. Ephemerist #