In this issue:

PARTNERS AND SPONSORS
1. Everyone.net
2. Webmasters: Power Your Site With FREE Content!
3. Earthweb and internet.com

NETWORK ANNOUNCEMENTS
4. Editor's Note: Cleaning House
5. A1JavaScripts.com: 3 New Scripts
6. 123Webmaster.com: 102 Dead Links Removed
7. FresherImage.com: New Article
8. Looking for Submissions

WEEKLY FEATURE
9. Ramon's Live Pencil

READER FEEDBACK
10. Comment of the Week: NS6 - What's the Deal?

DEVELOPER TALES
11. A Stone, Alone: A Colorful Turn

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PARTNERS AND SPONSORS
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3. Earthweb and internet.com
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NETWORK ANNOUNCEMENTS
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4. Editor's Note: Cleaning House
Hello readers! Welcome back to our weekly newsletter. This past week has boasted some moderate network site updates, but has been filled mostly with housekeeping. In addition to the removal of any dead material through out the network, we've been optimizing pages, to help the load time of our sites. During the next few days we will also be upgrading some of our backend scripts to further speed things along. After all, there's more to a pleasant visit then rich, full content :)

As always, feel free to contact me with feedback at: jason@bigresources.com

5. A1JavaScripts.com: 3 New Scripts
http://www.a1javascripts.com
Webmaster Ian McDonald has added 3 new scripts to A1JavaScripts this week. Included in the mix are:

The Multi FX Script:
http://www.a1javascripts.com/dhtml/page_effects/multifx.html
This is a DHTML script that will produce a colored spinning circle of dots which hovers around your browser window space.

Dynamic Page Script
http://www.a1javascripts.com/page_effects/dynamicpage.html
This JavaScript will reload a page on link click, producing new content within that page each time.

The Text HighLight Script
http://www.a1javascripts.com/text_effects/highlight.html
This JavaScript provides two methods of highlighting text inside a form. It will work on button click, or on link click.

6. 123Webmaster.com: 102 Dead Links Removed
http://www.123webmaster.com
Based on our visitor's 404 reporting, 123webmaster has been purified of 102 dead links. While this clean-out has dropped the directory back down past our landmark 3000 link mark, it has gotten rid of many of the annoying dead links throughout the directory, which will hopefully make surfing more pleasurable. In the coming week, we hope to validate of the pending links in our database to bring us back to 3000 by our next newsletter.

7. FresherImage.com: New Article Added
http://www.fresherimage.com
FresherImage has had another update this week, with an article about Ramon Gonzalez Teja, webmaster of http://www.livepencil.com. This article has been selected as our WEEKLY FEATURE, and can be read further down this ezine.

8. Looking for Submissions
We're looking for original articles, tutorials, and product review submissions to be featured in both our Ezine, and on http://www.123webmaster.com. If you feel that you are a talented web writer, and are knowledgeable with website promotion, webmaster tools, graphic design, webmaster tips, or web scripting (any language) then please send your article submissions to jason@bigresources.com.

All approved articles will be published with full credit to their author (including a link, email address, and any other information that you would like included), and will be read by over 50,000 webmasters. Submit today, and get published!

Jason M. DesRoches
jason@bigresources.com
Editor In Chief, Big Resources Ezine.

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WEEKLY FEATURE
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9. Ramon's Live Pencil
by Jason M. DesRoches

***This week's article features the talents of Ramon Gonzalez Teja, webmaster of LivePencil.com. In the pages following the one below, Ramon provides us with a detailed, step by step process of the making of a high quality animation.***

Ramon is a freelance illustrator who has worked in his industry since 1977 from his home in Madrid, Spain. Although Ramon has lived most of his life in Spain, he was born in Dallas, Texas on the 21st of May 1951, where he lived until the age of two.

Ramon's artistic talents emerged at a very early age. When asked why he began drawing Ramon replied:

"That's such a hard question to answer. Why did I start breathing? Why did I start walking ?...Talking ?... It came naturally."

Since 1977 Ramon has used that natural talent in his freelance business. Ramon has never had to hold a regular job due to the high demand of his high quality airbrushed works.

Ramon was finally introduced to the digital age in 1992. Using the Macintosh, Ramon was able to create the same quality work that he was producing with his airbrushing equipment.

Although Ramon's profession allows him to choose the assignments that he decides to take on, it has always limited him creatively. Like everybody else, Ramon's job requires him to conform to the demands of a employer (or in his case, a client). As a result, Ramon sought out a release valve for his creativity. In June of 2000, LivePencil.com <http://www.livepencil.com> would become that creative outlet.

At LivePencil <http://www.livepencil.com>, Ramon is able to be his own boss, and design the type of images that he enjoys to work on. Today, a visit to LivePencil will yield a variety of brightly colored icons, animations, and wallpapers, which are updated at a semi-regular basis with the free time that Ramon has.

Check out the step by step process on one of Ramon's animations starting on the next page of this article.

View the rest of this article online at:
http://www.fresherimage.com/Tips/LivePencil

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READER FEEDBACK
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10. Comment of the Week: NS6 - What's the Deal?
I would like to thank Mike DeOreo for this week's Reader Feedback, and our Comment of the Week.

"Hi Jason,

Ok, so this doesn't really have anything to do with yesterday's newsletter, but I thought that I'd rant to you anyway since you don't mind getting email! All I have to say is, NS6, what's the deal? It looks like Star Trek, but it surfs like it was made in the stone age! Did these guys actually try surfing the web with it themselves before they released it? It was hard enough getting my IE pages to look good in Netscape, but now my Netscape pages don't even look right in the new Netscape!! It's nerve racking! If you have any business with the Netscape folk, give them an earful for me!"

What can I say about Mike's comment? Only one thing, "Nuff said".

Got feedback, questions, or angry rants? Send it my way, I might be goofy enough to publish you. jason@bigresources.com

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DEVELOPER TALES
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11. A Stone, Alone: A Colorful Turn
by Jason M. DesRoches

**This week we continue our saga of our webmaster Stone's storyline "A Stone, Alone"**

When stone enters the Gemini oracle he is shocked to find that his path has been pushed back by several new paths that the wizard has created since stone last left only days ago. Now instead of traveling down the road to Stone's oracle, all of the travelers from the wizard's oracle are following these new trails. Stone had worked and sweated for days and days digging his path to the wizard, now to find that his top path from the wizard had been replaced without notice... Stone fumes with anger.

"Wizard!" Stone shouts. "Wizard, come show yourself, I know that you are here!"

But there is no reply from the wizard. Stone spends several minutes searching through the Gemini oracle, but can find no trace of the old, crooked, dark wizard. Feeling that there is nothing more he can do, Stone leaves the oracle, and returns to the forest. Distraught by recent events, Stone decides to take a new way back to his oracle, and possibly search for fruits from the forest to bring back with him.

Not long into the journey back, Stone discovers a bright colorful tree, filled with fruits. Stone heads for the tree, and stops suddenly. Stone notices that the tree appears to be occupied by a bird... a brightly colored bird... a tucan? It is a tucan, the brightest tucan, on the brightest tree, with the brightest fruits Stone has ever seen in the forest.

*End Part VIII*
Will Stone have better dealings with the Tucan then he did with the wizard? Be here next week as our story continues.

Send feedback to: jason@bigresources.com

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