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Part 9 - A list of common MIME types and Tools worth having for web design

Appendix 1

A list of common MIME types

  • application/octet-stream - bin
  • application/oda - oda
  • application/pdf - pdf
  • application/postscript - ai eps ps
  • application/rtf - rtf
  • application/mif - mif
  • application/x-csh - csh
  • application/x-dvi - dvi
  • application/x-hdf - hdf
  • application/x-latex - latex ltx
  • application/x-netcdf - nc cdf
  • application/x-sh - sh
  • application/x-tcl - tcl
  • application/x-tex - tex

Appendix 1

A list of common MIME types

  • application/octet-stream - bin
  • application/oda - oda
  • application/pdf - pdf
  • application/postscript - ai eps ps
  • application/rtf - rtf
  • application/mif - mif
  • application/x-csh - csh
  • application/x-dvi - dvi
  • application/x-hdf - hdf
  • application/x-latex - latex ltx
  • application/x-netcdf - nc cdf
  • application/x-sh - sh
  • application/x-tcl - tcl
  • application/x-tex - tex
  • application/x-texinfo - texinfo texi txi
  • application/x-troff - t tr roff
  • application/x-troff-man - man
  • application/x-troff-me - me
  • application/x-troff-ms- ms
  • application/x-wais-source - src
  • application/zip - zip
  • application/x-bcpio - bcpio
  • application/x-cpio - cpio
  • application/x-gtar - gtar
  • application/x-shar - shar
  • application/x-sv4cpio - sv4cpio
  • application/x-sv4crc - sv4crc
  • application/tar - tar
  • application/x-ustar - ustar
  • application/x-lzh - lzh
  • application/x-gzip - gz
  • audio/basic - au snd
  • audio/x-aiff - aif aiff aifc
  • audio/wav - wav
  • image/gif - gif
  • image/ief - ief
  • image/jpeg - jpeg jpg jpe
  • image/tiff - tiff tif
  • image/x-cmu-raster - ras
  • image/x-portable-anymap - pnm
  • image/x-portable-bitmap - pbm
  • image/x-portable-graymap - pgm
  • image/x-portable-pixmap - ppm
  • image/x-rgb - rgb
  • image/x-xbitmap - xbm
  • image/x-xpixmap - xpm
  • image/x-xwindowdump - xwd
  • text/html - html htm
  • text/plain - txt
  • text/richtext - rtx
  • text/tab-separated-values - tsv
  • text/x-setext - etx
  • video/mpeg - mpeg mpg mpe
  • video/quicktime - qt mov
  • video/msvideo - avi
  • video/x-sgi-movie - movie
  • vrml/x-world - wrl
  • i-vrml/i-world - ivr

# Microsoft types

  • application/msword - doc dot
  • application/x-ms-access - mdb
  • application/vnd.ms-excel - xls
  • application/vnd.ms-powerpoint - ppt ppz pps pot
  • application/vnd.ms-project - mpp
  • application/x-ms-publisher - pub
  • application/x-ms-schedule - scd
  • application/vnd.ms-works - wdb wks wps wcm

Appendix 2

Tools worth having

Windows files (most can be freely downloaded)

Bitmap-oriented Tools

  • Photoshop Tryout
  • Fractal Painter demo
  • Macromedia Xres 2.0 SE
  • Paint Shop Pro (www.jasc.com)
  • Alien Skin Black Box Drop Shadow & Cutout filters
  • KPT Gradient Designer
  • MindWorkshop GraphicWorkshop (Windows 3.1 and 95 versions)
  • Ulead PhotoImpact GIF and JPEG SmartSavers

Animation Tools

  • GIF Construction Set (Windows 3.1 and 95 versions)
  • Xing MPEG maker demo
  • QuickTime for Windows
  • Flash
  • FutureWave CelAnimator

Audio Tools

  • GoldWave
  • CoolEdit
  • Awave
  • Media Player 6.4 or newer (free from Microsoft)
  • QuickTime 4.1 or newer (quicktime.apple.com)

Uploading Tools

  • WS FTP (Windows 3.1 and 95 versions)
  • or similar FTP client

3-D & VRML Tools

HTML Authoring & Publishing Tools

  • HomeSite (Windows), BBedit (Mac) or similar text editor
  • Netscape Communicator or Mozilla (all platforms)
  • FrontPage, Dreamweaver, GoLive or similar

Utilities

  • RTFtoHTML
  • ESScode
  • Gzip (Linux, Win)
  • WinZip, WinRAR, WinAce or similar (Win)
  • Stuffit Expander (Mac)

Misc.

  • Acrobat (Full version recommended; Reader required)
  • PD clip-art and animations
  • Microsoft Web Fonts
  • Microsoft Web clip-art
  • other "Art Tiles" and cool backgrounds

Mac files (most can be freely downloaded)

Bitmap-oriented Tools

  • Photoshop Tryout version
  • Fractal Painter demo
  • Equilibrium DeBabelizer LE
  • KPT Gradient Designer
  • BoxTop PhotoGIF
  • BoxTop PhotoJPEG
  • Transparency
  • GIF Converter
  • GraphicConverter
  • Black Box Drop Shadow & Cutout
  • FireWorks
  • CelAnimator

Animation Tools

  • GIFBuilder
  • ItsaGIF
  • Astarte M.PACK demo  (MPEG maker)
  • Sparkle
  • QuickTime streamliner

Audio Tools

  • MPEG Audio Coder

Uploading Tools

  • Fetch 3.0 (Mac)

3-D & VRML Tools

HTML Authoring & Publishing Tools

  • Claris Home Page
  • PageMill
  • Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0 / Netscape Communicator (free)
  • Microsoft FrontPage Express (free)
  • PageSpinner

Utilities

  • RTFtoHTML
  • MPACK
  • Stuffit Expander

Misc.

  • Acrobat
  • Microsoft Web Fonts
  • Microsoft Web clip-art
  • PD clip-art and animations
  • Java Applets
  • Other "Art Tiles" and cool backgrounds

Note: the continued availability of these items can obviously not be guaranteed. If an item is not at the site(s) listed above, be sure to perform a search using a good Internet

Search Tool such as the one at http://www.google.com to see if it can be found elsewhere.

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