Extra Tools and Add-ons for Web Builders

JavaScript Tools & Resources

The JavaScript Color Cube
Select colours by rolling your mouse over them on the colourcube. The background will change to the colour your mouse is on and the colorcube will display the hex value for it.

JavaScript Kit
Free scripts and tutorials.

The JavaScript Source
A cut and paste library of javascript source code that you can use on your web pages.

Collections of Tools & Add-ons

Bravenet Free Web Tools for Webmasters
Bravenet Web Services provides a collection of add-ons for your site such as guestbooks, hit counters, polls, message boards, and many more. The free services are supported by advertising, but for a small fee you can subscribe to the pro service which is ad free.

Server.com
Another collection of add-ons including a calendar, discussion forum, guestbook, and others. There is a leasing option to use the WebApps without advertising.

Free Tools
A collection of tools including polls, guestbooks, horoscopes, message boards and more

Communications Tools

Boardhost Message Board
A free bulletin board service supported by advertising, but which also has an ad-free service for a price.

Nicenet Classroom Assistant
Nicenet is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing free services to the Internet community. The Classroom Assistant is a full featured online classroom for distance learning and classroom support.

ParaChat Chat Rooms
ParaChat offers chat room services that are hosted on their server. They supply the code to add to your Web page that will invoke the chat room through a Java applet. You can choose the free chat service, supported by advertising, or use one of the paid services for greater control over your chat room.

Yahoo Discussion Groups
These free discussion groups include a bulletin board, live chat, file sharing, a database, and a link library. Easy to create, but members must have a Yahoo ID to get through the registration process.

Discus
Another discussion forum that must be installed locally. There is a free version and a paid version; the paid version allows for greater customization and security features.

Freedback
This free service provides customizable interactive forms that do not require cgi scripts to be run on your server.

Calendars

Super Calendar
Another service for creating a dynamic online calendar that requires no HTML experience or programming on the local server. It has a password protection feature that allows you to set your calendar so that only those who have authorization can view it. This service is also available in different languages.

Yahoo Calendars - Canadian Version
Yahoo has a nice calendaring tool that lets you create daily, weekly, or monthly calendars for private or public use. You will need to have a Yahoo ID (free, but you must register) to use the calendar service

Web-based Calendars
There are a whole collection of calendaring tools now available, and Yahoo has a nice list of tools that are free or pay-for-use services.

Quizzes, Games, & Puzzles

Hot Potatoes
A software for creating online quizzes and puzzles that is provided free of charge to educational institutions if they agree to make the quizzes available online at no cost.

Quia
This free service is designed for educators to create a variety of activities, quizzes, and learning games online. They are hosted at Quia and are available to others who visit the Quia site. The service is supported by advertising, but a subscription fee upgrades the service to include many extras and customization options.

Live Feeds

Surf the Net with Kids
A free service that provides live feed items from Barbara Feldman that are geared towards children. Choose from a daily factoid, game-of-the-day, or surfing calendar to add some fun to your site for kids that is fresh every day.

Moreover
A professional newsfeed service that allows non-profit sites to access a limited section of their database for free. You can select specific categories of news for your site, and some customization with keywords is provided to narrow the type of news received. The free service is NOT available to commercial organizations.

Magportal
This news service provides access to articles in magazines and journals, and allows webmasters to set up a feed to specific topical categories that captures links to current headlines and loads them into the local site.

Updated: January 2004, Additions: January 2004