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Select from the links above to jump to sections on this page that will provide links to the topics indicated. From my own free offerings to a wide range of free sites, free software and other great free stuff, you will find an extensive range of useful tools, programs, information sites and more. The Wiz will be adding more great free stuff here regularly. Please come back and visit from time to time! Also, do send along any links you think should be on this page. Email to thewiz@ourhutch.com.

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The Wiz's Free Help And Information Pages!

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Other Free Tools And Information Pages!

Website/Listing Templates Tools & Tutorials

Wizards Place Forum

Graphics/Clipart/Backgrounds Sources & Archives

Beautiful Fairhope - A New Photo Each Day!
Photos and scenes in and around beautiful Fairhope Alabama AL.

Shipscript's Excellent Online Utilities

  • Click Gallery - online version of Clic*Pic.
  • Pretty Borders - dynamically create up to seven layered nested tables.
  • Clicky Buttons - Create your own clickable buttons and text menus.
  • Colors & Blends - Internet colors, names and a nifty blending tool.
  • Encryptor - Encrypt/decrypt HTML, help hide your source code.
  • The Shadow - Create drop shadows for your self-hosted images with HTML.
  • Charts & Tables - Quickly generate HTML charts and tables.
  • No-Spam Links - Make non-keyword-spamming links for eBay templates and pages.
  • Pop*View - Click image to open pop-up viewer.
  • X*Cell - Create a cross-sell gallery for eBay.
  • Editor - Great little HTML editor for template design.

Main Street Mall Online - An Online Shopping Community!
MSMO (miz-mo) Independent sellers, great products, buy or sell today!

HTML - JavaScript Resources

  • Getting Started - an excellent refresher and reference for HTML coding.
  • W3Schools - complete HTML tutorial for Websites.
  • HTML Goodies - a compilation of tips, tricks and more for HTML and beyond.
  • Web Design Group - straight forward, non-browser-specific, HTML design.
  • HTML Help Site - HTML coding specific to creating eBay templates.
  • Page Resources - HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, Style, CGI, Perl and more.

PHP - MySQL Starting Points

Lisa Mills Recording Artist

Some Helpful Websites

A Bit Of SEO Stuff

  • GoogleSEO - Matt Cutts excellent look at all stuff Google.
  • SEOToday -- good articles by industry experts and plain ol' users.
  • Webmaster Help Center -- good article on choosing an SEO adviser.
  • Wikipedia on SEO -- probably more than you want to know.
  • SEO Book -- the book isn't free but the excellent information on the site is!

A Couple of Image Hosting Sites

  • PhotoBucket -- undoubtedly the best free image host available.
  • Oniva -- not free, but probably the best hosting site around!

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The Reading Room


Not Free But Really Worth The Look!

Wholesale and Drop Shipper Sources

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Free Programs and Utilities!

General Software

Website/Template Design

  • First Page 2006 - the best HTML/PHP editor available today!
  • 1st Page 2000 - I still use this earlier version.
  • HTML Kit - HTML editor with support for CSS and more.
  • PHP Coder - like 1st Page 2000 but with focus on PHP coding.
  • NVU - the free alternative to Dreamweaver.
  • HTML Tidy - free utility cleans HTML code.

Business/Productivity/Desktop Applications

  • Open Office - full office suite handles Word/Excel files.
  • Scribus - open source desktop publishing software.
  • Free Accounting - free, powerful, small business accounting

Free Draw!
Main Street Mall Online - Buy or Sell Today - See Contest Details

Computer/File/Network Security

  • F-Prot Anti-Virus - the best anti-virus software available.
  • Avira Anti-Virus - great anti-virus protection for Win98, XP, Liniux.
  • AdAware - adware and spyware removal.
  • Zone Alarm - excellent, powerful, easy to use firewall.
  • Eraser - completely removes sensitive material from your hard drive.
  • FineCrypt - Great file encription a click away!
  • PGP - Pretty Good Privacy - one of the best public key systems around!

Internet Client/Server Applications

  • Pegasus Mail - the best, most secure, email client available.
  • AceFTP - great freeware FTP file transfer client.
  • Putty - powerful, yet easy to use, Telnet/SSH client.
  • Fire Fox - You should be using this web browser!
  • Tiny Web Server - powerful, easy to use web server for your computer.
  • Simple Server - another small but powerful web server for personal use.

Graphic Editors and Applications

  • GIMP - powerful graphics creation/editing software.
  • Irfanview - simple, powerful graphics program.
  • Inkscape - open source scalable vector graphics editor.
  • Picasa - picture managment, editing, and more.

Alternate Operating Systems

  • Red Hat LINUX - One of the very best LINUX distrobutions!
  • OpenBSD - As an old BSD guy myself, I gotta say, "Way Kewl!"
  • FreeBSD - Another leader in the free 'NIX O/S game.

Bulletin Board Software

  • Synchronet - the best telnet BBS software available.
  • PHP BB - excellent open source bulletin/chat board.

Shipscript's Excellent Downloadable Utilities

  • Clic*Pic - the best click-to-enlarge gallery creator around!
  • Rag*Tag - Check your HTML tags for miss-match.
  • Shipping Calculator - Make your own shipping calculator for eBay listings.
  • Rain*Bow - Find color codes from pictures or color pattern.
  • Tag*Bot - automates listing template maintenance and updating.
  • No*Click - sets image as background and covers with transparent gif.

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Clic*Pic

Get Clic*PicTM Click-To-Enlarge Gallery For Free!

Long recognized for her expert programming skills and useful website and auction utilities like Rag-Tag, Rainbow and Tab-Bot, Karen's (eBay user ID: shipscript) flagship product is without a doubt the clickable photo-gallery creator known as Clic*PicTM.

Now, through special arrangement with the author/programmer, the Wiz will pay for your full Clic*PicTM registration (a $29.95 value!) when you purchase a custom template with filler form designed exclusively for you by the Wiz. The custom designed filler form will include a special field to handle the output HTML code produced by Clic*PicTM as well.


Screenshot of Clic*PicTM Program

Crop and Compress Images: Simply drop your list of files onto the screen and watch the photos resize and arrange into a picture gallery. You can also zoom, crop, and rotate each photo if needed. Truly simple! No more ugly "white space".

Each Clic*PicTM gallery can have up to 32 photos! Standard images will be 400 wide by 300 high and average up to 60K bytes each. But you have the freedom to change the image format to any size or shape that is appropriate for your photo group (up to 800x800 pixels).


Screenshot of Clic*PicTM Gallery

Professional Looking Gallery: With a single click, Clic*PicTM will resize and compress your images, make your thumbnails, make a project folder, and create a professional looking gallery. The perfect batch-processing solution for power sellers, and the quick and simple solution for occasional sellers.

It's a natural fit: the very best click-to-enlarge photo-gallery creator and the Wiz's custom template and filler form. You deserve the best. Now you can get it in one place! Contact the Wiz for details: thewiz@ourhutch.com.

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Wiz

  • The Wiz's 'Cool Free Stuff' page designed, implemented and copyright © 2006 by Stephen B. Henry
  • Clic*PicTM descriptive text, the bow, and screen captures copyright © by ISDN*tek - Used with permission.
  • Original Country Clipart Graphic Copyright by Original Country Clipart by Lisa- Used under license

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