PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:
- 511.org
S.F. Bay Area Transportation Information covers all major and minor transit operators.
- New Orleans Regional Transit Authority
Streetcar and bus operator in the City of New Orleans.
- Jefferson Transit
Bus operator on the East Bank and West Bank of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
TRANSPORTATION FAN AND VOLUNTEER SITES:
- CanalStreetCar.com
by Edward J. Branley. Information about New Orleans includes the Canal and other streetcar lines.
- Canal
Street: A Street Railway Spectacular
by H. George Friedman. An excellent pictorial chronicle of the history and development of streetcar service on the main drag in New Orleans. Look for some of my own pictures in there!
- Market Street Railway
Volunteer proponents of historic streetcar operation in San Francisco.
- Tom's North American Trolley Bus Pictures
Historic and contemporary coverage of all ETB operations on this continent.
- Bus Bus Bus: Bus Images from Creative Commons for you to enjoy
- Western Transit
Western United States transit information in a monthly newsletter.
NEW ORLEANS:
- The Gumbo Pages
by Chuck Taggart. Louisiana culture. My inspiration for creating a page about K&B Drug Stores.
SOFTWARE:
- IrfanView
Image viewer and manipulator by Irfan Skiljan. Freeware for non-commercial users. This program resizes and thumbnails the pictures presented on this website and makes a great default viewer for a variety of media types. Registration or donation is only 10 euros and worth it.
- PhantomEFX
Makers of Reel Deal casino games.
- UnFREEZ by Whitsoft
Development
Free GIF animator.
- Free Download Manager
An excellent no-cost way to organize multiple downloads from a page or zip archive.
GRAPHICS AND CODING:
- Open
Source Web Design
Free downloadable web design templates. My source for the "Simple Beauty" template used beginning July 2010.
- Banner Fans
Easy, professional-looking banners hosted online or downloadable.
- ACME Heart Maker
and Label Maker
Create Valentine candy hearts and Dymo-like labels with personal messages.
- ImageMagick
Downloadable source code for image manipulation.
-
ImageMagick Studio
Online image annotations, decorations, and manipulations. Offers FTP uploading of finished images.
- WebFX
Fun special effects applied to images.
- Hype's Color Specifier for Netscape v.3
Hexadecimal and 256 color codes. My color selection guide since 1998.
- ColorCombos.com
Explore color combinations for web pages.
- The Free Site
Comprehensive list of links to free software, graphics, code, etc.
- Flaming Text
Banners with burning letters and other effects.
- R.T.'s Blank Plates
Blank license plates from the United States and Canada.
- ZyWeb
Graphics source with a free 30 day trial.
- JavaScript Kit
Useful Javascript routines I've incorporated on this site from time to time.
- Dynamic Drive
is another great Javascript site. The wonderful Simple Controls Gallery introduced in January 2010 comes from there.
- The Site Wizard
CSS navigation menu bar buttons wizard.
- favicon.cc
Create a favorites icon for your website.