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Photos and Graphics
- 123rf.com, dreamstime.com, fotolia.com (many languages)
- Getty Images, istockphoto.com, [submit.]shutterstock.com
- bigstockphoto.com, sehenswerk.com (English), adpic.de, alamy.com (German, English), panthermedia.net (German, English, Polish)
- de: digitalstock.de, imagepoint.biz, [photographer.]ShotShop, zoonar.de (Deutsch)
- not only images: stock.adobe (de, at, fr, es, mx, pt, br, it, nl, dk, no, se, pl, cz, ru)
- free stock photos: pexels (also videos), stockvault.net, collection of free photos: my-free-photos.com
- Icons8 - icons, illustrations, photos, music and design tools
- Vecteezy: free vector art, stock photos & videos
- OpenClipArt.org free vector graphics (They don´t pay for the certificate so you may have to acknowledge a browser warning)
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Online Tools: Image, Video & more
- online file converter, convertio.co: also up- & downscale images
- JPEGcompress: compress images simply by drag & drop, +before/after, well optimized
- AI image upscaler: enhance image resolution
- pdfBear: all pdf tools of desire
- view font file: FontSee, view installed fonts: WordMark (only Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge)
- download-video.net (Linux: youtube-dl),
Loom - records you and your screen
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR), convert an image into text, download sw↑🖫
- OCR + online photo cropping (optical character recognition / image → text)
- remove.bg | remove and replace the background of your photos
- AI photo manipulator | change faces, emotions, age, gender, backgrounds
- Otter AI | capture meetings
- LiteWrite notes stored locally on your browser, dropbox or remote storage
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Software + Docs
- Gimp,
mora-foto.it: Gimp Tutorials for photo editing, - professional open source paint & photo editing
Grokking the GIMP (online book),
layer modi(de, fr, es, it) - proprietary alternative: PhotoShop
- Inkscape: vector graphics; tutorials: intro: 1, 2, 3, more advanced: 1, 2, 3, tech: 1
- DarkTable: OSS alternative to Adobe Lightroom; videos diffuse/sharpen - 1, 2
- Digikam: photo management, f.i. also search for 'pix', 'Converseen' etc. at /oss/pop/↑🖫 AppImageHub and UptoDown
- Hugin Panorama Factory: open source - stitch several photos together into one
- Blender: open source 3D modelling & animation
- OpenShot, Top 7 OSS+Linux Video Editing Software, proprietary & Win-only: Edius
- font viewers: FontBase, Opcion (Java), Fontmatrix: Win/Tux (+extract/inst. f.), Linux: font-manager, fontpreview
font editors: FontForge, BirdFont, Linu/GNU only: TruFont # view fonts online: Online Tools↑
- Audacity: audio software for multi-track recording and editing
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Photography Tutorials, Tips & Competitions
- Adorama,
PetaPixel (news, learn photography),
some free tutorials
- de: kleine Fotoschule,
Marcus Florschütz: Photography Tips
- ExpertPhotography
Photzy,
CameraGurus (bottom: Learn P.),
- Joel Grims: Photo Blog, William Patino: 10 tips for landscape photography
- Life Framer Photo Award, Trogon Tours
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- w3c: common html entities, German with char pics: html special chars
- W3C HTML markup validation service
- mobile friendlieness test for web pages: by Google, SEOAura
- microcopy.me | helps you find persuasive headlines & slogans
- Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools
- Ahrefs Webmaster Tools: Login / SignUp, MOZ.com
- test site speed, ssl-site-test, updown, mxtoolbox: check the DNS records of your domain; email: DMARC(DKIM)+SPF+smtp & blacklist test, http[s], whois, ping, soa, arin, etc., email server security tech.-supp.
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Tutorials: Content Creation for the Web
- w3schools: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, SQL, CSS & more (even C#, C++),
Kleber's blog: pt: Wordpress
- docs.w3cub.com: WebApi, DOM-Ev, Modernizer, CSS, HTML, Wordpress, Javascript, Apache, Nginx/Lua, XSLT & XPath, HTTP
- ApacheDoc, LinuxGuruz: Apache, CGI, PHP, HTML, MySQL #
java2s.com: Javascript, JQuery, Java,
- TutorialRepublic: Learn How to Make a Website: HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, SQL, jQuery
developer.mozilla.org
- selftaughtcoders.com: very short HTML introduction, Linux/Debian: install selfhtml,
HTML5 Video Tutorial (de/en, +Javascript)
- two and three column layouts, css-tricks.com: Aslett-Clearing-Method, CSS3.info, CSScreator.com (forum)
- Linode Guides: Security/SSL certs: certbot, web & email servers, databases, kubernetes, more
- Microdata: semantic schema markup for HTML pages, intro
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Links: Content Creation for the Web
- matomo Webstat (Javascript) - avoid the Google data kraken, webstat bash (Apache logs, small sites only)
- seobility, sistrix: check your website for fallacies concerning SEO (search engine optimization)
- websquash srch. eng. submission, submitx se submission, ew submission (with ad-emails) - only submit one at most every two weeks; otherwise that may punish your site
- whole-search global SE ranking, website-datenbank.de, com/org.all-url.info, webtechsurvey.com
- Triberr - blog automation, Blog Platforms & Indices↑📎
- CopyBlogger - hints for writers
- SimilarWeb: top websites,
Webscore: Moz-Score,
SEOmastering: 'real' pagerank,
siteprice.org
- ACME.sh: automatic SSL certificate retrieval (Aut. Cert. Mngm. Environ., for use with web servers)
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Find a Professional
- find a designer: on Dribble
- find a photographer: FlyToGrapher, the-AOP.org, Pixolum (de), FindAPhotographer (USA), LocalGrapher (world)
- find professionals: Fiverr, Bark, translation: lingy.uk,
general: CompanySpotter
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Sw., Offers, Docs and Courses at Pay
- skillshare (web-dev),
udemy,
21draw,
domestika,
aub.ac.uk,
- image & video software: TopazLabs: AI upscale & denoise
- e-Commerce: SquareSpace
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Webhoster, VPS & DNS registrars + links&docs
- UberSpace web hosting – manual, lab, dashboard, webmail: ssh, command line config (English, German), you can run own services like a Jabber server
- NetCup – wiki, control panel, webmail VPS (Virtual Private Server), Webhosting, ssh, Domains (English, German)
- simple, popular paid hosting alternatives: AlfaHosting (de), HostEurope (de, en), Dogado (de), Ionos (many languages, cheap)
- free hosting: 000space.com (English)
- free and professional hosting: lima-city.de (German)
- network23: free WordPress blogs for activists and agitators
- dotplex webhosting – FAQ(en/de), control panel, webmail: ssh, on request with DANE (German site)
- popular VPS:
NetCup,
Hetzner,
Contabo,
BuyVM,
DigitalOcean,
VPSroom (mgr),
Host.co.in,
QHoster (virtual private servers)
- de:Angebote vergleichen, ip-projects.de Webhosting, VPS, Domains (English, German)
- VPS🡂cloud computing: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure (Microsoft), Google, DigitalOcean, OpenStack, sw: Kubernetes, Pulumi, Terraform
- content delivery networks: What is a CDN?, CDNOverview, CDNFinder, Limelight, Akamai, Level 3, StackPath/MaxCDN, ChinaCache
- domain registration: INWX: free open API, help, DNSSEC / webmail (English, Spanish, German), webhosting: internetworx.de
- domaindiscount24.com English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish, Chinese
domains: Only use accredited registrars; some spam sites steal your domain name and sell it back to you at a high price
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