Player Resources


Writing & Character Resources


Baby Names: Includes background information on names and a random generator
Fiction Factor: Advice on character creation and development
Google Image Search: Great for character pictures
Uncle Orson's Writing Class: Detailed and catagorised writing advice



Star Trek Resources

Daystrom Institute Technical Library: Large information resource including alien species
Memory Alpha: Huge wiki-based information resource
Startrek.com: The official Star Trek website
Star Trek Dimension - The Archival Edition: Includes heaps of info on stuff and star charts, etc.
Ex Astris Scientia: A wonderful Trek resource library



Instant Messengers and Chat

mIRC: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) for PC
Snak: IRC for Mac
Trillian: All IMs in one for PC
Miranda: All IMs in one for PC
AdiumX: All IMs in one for Mac

Commanding Officer (CO) Resources


PBB, PBEM & PBW Resources
Website Hosting
Free HTML & CSS Website Templates & Editors
HTML & CSS Tutorials
Images & Rank Pips
Other External Star Trek Resources
Writing & Character Resources
Instant Messengers and Chat - Communicate With Your Players



PBB, PBEM & PBW Resources

SMF: Task Group 47A's preferred forums for your PBB sim
PhpBB: Another forum for your PBB sim
Yahoo!groups: Email mailing list for your PBEM sim
Sim Management System (SMS): Basic site setup with posting archives for your PBW sim



Website Hosting

Site Ground: Relatively cheap, and they have an automagic install for the SMF forum
Trek Simms: Free hosting and install for SMS sites
IX Web Hosting: Decent prices
Geocities: Free webhosting, may have limited use ie unable to use banner exchanges



Free HTML & CSS Website Templates & Editors

Open Source CMS: Access to view demos of heaps of Content Management Systems (CMS)
thefreecountry.com: Free HTML editors
Taco HTML: Free HTML editor for Macs
fresscsstemplates.org: Free website templates
templateyes.com: Free website templates
ex-designz: Free website templates
Life Hacker: Free website templates & tips
Template World: Free website templates



HTML & CSS Tutorials

HTML CSS Tutorials
W3 Schools: Basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP
CSS HTML Tutorials
HTML.net: CSS Tutorials
HTML.net: HTML Tutorials



Images & Rank Pips

ST-Spike.org: For uniform images &smp; stuff
Kuro's Rank Pips
Ceb's Rank Insignias: Unique images with both black and white backgrounds