Quite a few
places on the net offer you freespace if your isp doesn't: Geocities,
Angelfire
are two such
services. Once booked in, signed up and so forth they have excellent
HTML editors, for the not so clued up or lazy to produce fairly professional
looking results. If on the other hand you feel you want to get to
grips with HTML and java and all the hullabaloo that goes with it, here
are a couple of links to help you decorate your homepages with nice thangs:
Ok then where to start . To kick off even if you are going to use an editor provided by the homepage hoster it is a good idea to get a rough idea as to the basic coding .. you never know you might just get hooked. A good start can be found at the Beginners Guide to HTML .
Then once
you can see how to put images and sounds on your pages and tables and all
sorts of rather luverly thinks you'll probably want to know where you can
get some of these ready made goodies. So here are a few links to
backgrounds, ani-gifs, jpegs, borders, and all things pictorial:
Windy:
a wealth of stuff and she doesn't mind you using it
just give credit where credit is due.
Gifs: free images gifs etc.
Course you can always make yer own with a nice graphics program like Coreldraw or PaintShopPro and even get em animated with a special program... The www is your oyster just remember that not everyone wants to wait for ages for your page to download withlots of fancy pics, gifs and stuff as impressive as it probably will look...
You can go and get yerself REALAUDIO as lots of sites now have thier sounds in realaudio format so you'll need this to listen to em... oh it is free btw! You can also listen to web radio, live new broadcasts and all that stuff. On the radio I seemed to get a lot of buffering and bugger all else but maybe I was unlucky.
The
Ultimate Band List .. I found
this when looking for lyrics tis an excellent resource to find links to
1000's of bands.... quite awesome.
CD
Zone: choose and buy
Netradio:
internet radio lots of channels
RadioTower:
the place to find an international radio station on real-audio
AllStar:
music e-zine
Internet
Underground Music Archive
Free
Midi files if you would like to add a sound of two to your homepage
ladida di dum
Ha no page on muisc would be complete without a link to that journal without equal NME and also that other wonderful mag SELECT.
I am not putting links here to specific bands pages as I would not wish to impose my choices on you... ahh talk about kind. Hmm more kinda Bitter Sweet Symphony.. yep for sure.
Internet
Movie Database: the title says it all
Home
Video Guide: this is excellent has movies galore
Mr
Showbiz: interviews news and all the latest
Aint
it Cool: gossip gossip and more gossip
For a meeting
of Vision and Sound how about putting some bits and bobs of the movies
on your page get it from
the
Movie Sounds Homepage