• The 216 color "safe" Web pallette. Limiting yourself to this set of colors will guarantee your images won't be dithered on a 256 color monitor. Includes an option to let you see what any given background and foreground color pair looks like.
• Another page with generally non-Web-safe colors, sorted by color name.
• If you are working at a higher resolution and want an easy way to see how your page(s) look on a "standard" or smaller monitor, try one of the links below:
  • A tool to size a 480 x 320 pixel window.
  • A tool to size a 640 x 480 pixel window.
  • A tool to size an 800 x 600 pixel window.
  • A tool to size a 1024 x 768 pixel window.

Metacharacters:

• A table of Windows-specific Metacharacters, otherwise known as "character entities". This is how you include special characters like   ©   or   ™   in your Web pages.
• Here's another table which shows the "correct" (platform independent) way to use those special characters.

Debugging tools:

• A CGI tool to display the HTML source code for a specific page. Just type in the URL and view the results. Useful for seeing what HTTP headers are returned, or how the page "works". Also useful looking at the component pages of a site that uses FRAMES. Headers are shown in red, tags and such in blue, and the raw text in black. This tool is useful to see what type of Web server is delivering the Web document, or when the document was last modified.
• A CGI tool to display the Parameters & ENVIRONMENT as seen by the Web server. Useful for debugging a <FORM> -- just set the target of your form's "ACTION=" attribute to point to "http://www.micapeak.com/cgi-bin/viewparms". You can also point to it via an <A> link, and see what info your browser sends to the Web server, and what info the server provides to your browser (clicking on the link above will do this for you).

FORMs:

• A Sample FORM with just about one of every type of form gadget you could want. Clicking on the form's SUBMIT button invokes the Parameters & ENVIRONMENT link above.