- EarthWeb.com|Web Page Development
- A wealth of web page development links on these topics: Acitive Server Pages (ASP), Browser-specific Issues, CGI, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), DHTML, HTML, Java, JavaScript, and PERL
- Free Stuff for Webmasters
- The Volition.com Free Stuff is a site full of, well, free stuff, aimed to help Webmasters build sites.
- JavaScript Mall for Webmasters
- Free Scripts, Learning, Tutorials, Resources, and Help.
- JavaScript tutorial
- A free JavaScript Learning Center.
- Webreference Colorizer
- A tool for choosing colors.
- Web Clip Art
- A site with lots of clip art links and collections.
- Free Images/Stock Photos
- A site with lots of photos, organized by category.
- HTML With Style
- An HTML reference, with some good tutorials.
- PERL for the Web
- A place to learn about using PERL on the web, with some good tutorials.
- HTML 4 spec
- The official W3C HTML 4.01 Specification.
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Introducing
the Internet
- Domain Name Registry List for Country and Alternate Domains
- Here is the list of
country domains.
- Puget Sound Area Internet Service Providers
- This is a chart created
by the Seattle Times that lists many local ISPs, their monthly rates,
number of subscribers, etc. There are links to the home pages for
each provider, too, so you can easily read about their services.
Published 9/24/00.
- Internet
Domain Survey
- Find the latest information
on how many computers are connected to the Internet using this site.
- Internet Web
Text: Index
- This is an excellent
online introduction to the Internet.
- How the Web
Works
- This explanation comes
from CERN, the organization that invented the World Wide Web.
- Internet
Navigator
- This is an excellent
self-paced tutorial on the Internet created by several colleges
and universities in Utah.
- Webopedia
- Some students have
told me that learning about the Internet is like learning a foreign
language. Here is a good dictionary to use when you hear a foreign
term!
- Decoding
and dealing with browser error messages
- Students who are new
to the Internet and the Web often feel they've made a mistake when
they receive an error message. Learn what all those cryptic error
messages really mean by visiting this site.
- Atlas of Cyberspaces
- This is an amazing
site that has incredible images of cyberspace. Best to view on campus
since the images take a long time to download using a modem!
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Browser
Tutorials
Check out these links
for good tutorials on using browsers and other Internet resources.
- Netscape
Navigator 4 Tutorial
- This is a useful tutorial
prepared by the Burlington County Library.
- Netscape's
Tutorial for Navigator 4.5
- Netscape provides
its own tutorial on using version 4.5.
- Internet Explorer version 5 Tour
- This is Microsoft's
tutorial for their latest browser..
- Internet
Explorer 5.5 Features
- This isn't a tutorial,
but it does provide a list of features for the new version of Internet
Explorer that we've just installed on all our computers.
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Email
Tutorials
These links are to sites
that help you learn different email systems. We are using Hotmail
for this class, but you might want to learn more about other email
clients like Eudora (my favorite) or Netscape Messenger or Outlook
Express.
- Outlook
Express version 5 Tutorial
- This tutorial was developed
at the California State University at Sacramento.
- Outlook
Express 5 How to Guide
- This is a guide developed
by Microsoft
- Netscape
Messager E-mail Tutorial
- Read about the features
available in Netscape Messenger.
- Hotmail
Tutorial
- This brief guide was
created by Arizona State University, Department of Education.
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Miscellaneous
Tutorials
These links are to sites
that describe the different types of Internet protocols and tools.
- WS_FTP
LE Tutorial
- This tutorial was
created by CalPoly. It's for a different version than we have on
campus but it is still useful.
- Foolproof
File Enclosures
- Sending and receiving
files can be challenging. This article is extremely helpful when
you exchange files with others who are using either other platforms
or software or both.
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Search
Tools
These links are to sites
that describe the different types of tools available for searching
the Internet and the Web.
- CIS 111 Search Tools
- This is a list of
search tools to use for our class.
- Tile Net Listserv
Directory
- Tile Net provides
a list of listservs and it also allows you to perform a key word
search to find listservs on topics of interest.
- Tile
Net Newsgroup Directory
- In addition to its
mailing list directory, Liszt also has a newsgroup directory where
you can look up a newsgroup by keyword.
- Conducting
Research on the Internet
- This page offers an
excellent overview of the types of resources available on the Internet
as well as tips on using them.
- Searching the
Internet: Recommended Sites and Search Techniques
- Begin your learning
about search tools here at the University at Albany Libraries. This
gives an excellent overview of the various types of tools along
with recommendations for which tools to use for which types of searches.
- How to Choose
a Search Engine or Research Database
- Another University
at Albany Libraries page, this has a very nice table that guides
you through the process of finding the right search tool to use
depending on the element you want to use for your search.
- Quick Reference
Guide to Internet Search Engine Syntax
- We will cover search
syntax in class, but this is another excellent page from the University
at Albany Libraries that discusses this topic.
- Search Engine Watch: News, Tips and
More about search engines
- This page is devoted
to keeping us informed about search engines and their development.
It has links to several other pages with useful search engine information,
too.
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Digital
Collections
- The
On-Line Books Page
- Sponsored by University
of Pennsylvania, this site has over 11,000 online books. You can
search by author or title and all the publications are free for
downloading.
- Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection
- This is a wonderful
collection of digitized maps offered by the University of Texas
at Austin.
- Perseus Project Home
Page
- Project Perseus was
originally a CD ROM product that they decided to offer over the
Internet. It covers all things Greek and ancient.
- Project Gutenberg
- Project Gutenberg
is the place to find digitized books, plays, poetry, documents that
are in the public domain. These publications can be downloaded for
free.
- Electronic
Text Center at the University of Virginia
- This site has materials
in several languages (English, French, German, Latin, Japanese Chinese,
and Cyrillic. Not all of the materials are available to the general
public however.
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Evaluating
Information from the Web
This is perhaps the most
important part of the course. Pages get published on the Web without
going through any filtering process. It essential that students learn
to use critical thinking skills to evaluate resources from the Internet
and Web.
- HoaxBusters
(Computer Incident Advisory Capability)
- Check this site before
you email all your friends about a computer virus. It will tell
you if the virus alert is a hoax.
- Computer
Emergency Response Team (CERT)
- This is the authoritative
site on real Internet viruses.
- Computer
Virus Myths
- A site worth exploring,
this page links to computer virus hysteria awards, urban legends,
and new hoaxes.
- Don't
Spread That Hoax
- This site has a list
of recent hoaxes, famous hoaxes, and links to informative sites.
- Evaluating Internet Resources
- This is the University
at Albany Libraries guide to evaluating Internet resources.
- Evaluating Web Resources
- Widener University
Wolfgram Memorial Library has one of the most comprehensive sites
on evaluating information from the Web. Notice that they also have
a link to additional sites that discuss evaluation.
- Evaluating Advocacy
Pages
- Checklist for evaluating
advocacy pages.
- Business & Marketing Pages
- Checklist for evaluating
business & marketing pages.
- Current Events
& News Pages
- Checklist for evaluating
current events and news pages.
- Information
Pages
- Checklist for evaluating
information pages.
- Personal Pages
- Checklist for evaluating
personal pages.
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Libraries
on the Internet
These are links to libraries
that can be accessed through the Internet.
- Seattle
Community College District Libraries
- The SCCD Library home page has links
to a new web-based catalog (much easier to look up books, CDs, videos,
and other resources) and a link to web-based periodical indexes.
You can access the periodical index from home if you go to the library
and get the account name and password.
- Seattle Public Library
- This is the home page
for Seattle Public Library. However, use the following link to connect
to the online catalog and other resources available from SPL.
- King County
Library System - Washington State
- This is the home page
for the King County Library.
- University of
Washington Libraries
- This is the home page
for the University of Washington Libraries.
- Library of Congress
Home Page
- The Library of Congress
has unique offerings. Please spend some time here.
- The Internet Public
Library
- This is one of the
best tools for finding good, reliable information on the Internet.
It is very well organized and each link is described (annotated)
so you know in advance what type of information you'll find when
you select it.
- Librarians'
Index to the Internet
- Another extremely
useful tool for locating information on the Internet. These links
have been organized and evaluated for you.
- The
Library Spot
- The site is well organized
and offers links to many, many specialized and general reference
pages. It is easy to use and all the resources are annotated and
evaluated.
- Electric
Library
- The Electric Library
has full text articles from hundreds of magazines, newspapers, books,
and radio, government, and TV transcripts. It is fee based but if
you subscribe for a year, it is only $5.00 per month.
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Web
Page & Graphics Resources
These are links to sites
that will help you create your home pages.
- Yale Style Manual-Table
of Contents
- This is the best site
I've found for all aspects of home page design.
- Webmonkey HTML
- In addition to basic tags, this site has tutorials
on more advanced topics like DHTML, CSS, Frames, tables and more.
- Writing
HTML - a tutorial for creating web pages
- This is an excellent tutorial created by Maricopa
Center for Learning & Instruction.
- NCSA--A Beginner's
Guide to HTML
- Home pages are created
with HTML and this site offers an excellent overview of this programming
language.
- HTML 4.0 Tags
- From the Web Developers
Virtual Library, this page has a list of all the tags for HTML 4.0
the current standard. This list also include attributes so it will
come in very hand in your "web work."
- Seven
Deadly Sins of Web Design
- Jacob Nielsen's list
of things to avoid in your web page design.
- ProjectCool
Table Tutorial
- This is an excellent
resource for teaching yourself how to create tables.
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- Pixel Foundry Background Archive
- The Pixel Foundry
has many excellent articles on design and also this great background
archive.
- Arts:Design
Arts:Graphic Design:Web Page Design and Layout:Graphics
- This page at Yahoo
has one of the best lists of places to find graphics on the Web.
- Realm Graphics
- I like this site for
graphics alot. It has tons of lines, backgrounds, bullets, icons,
and buttons.
- Freeimages.com
- This site has a rich
collection of free images that are categorized for easier finding.
- Browser
Safe Palette
- Use colors in your
web sties are browser safe. This page shows by hue the color safe
palette. A bonus is that it also give the hexadecimal and the R
G B values for each color.
- Web
Color Combination Tool
- This is a really easy
to use color combination tool that a former student alerted me to.
Drag colors around the page to pick the ones you want to use.
- GIF
and JPEG Crunchers
- This site allows you
to compress your images in the GIF file format. It also allows you
to compress JPG files.
- ColorMaker
- This page lets you
select different colors for your background, text, links, and visited
links. Then it shows you what your colors will look like on a page
as well as giving the color codes you need for tagging.
- How
Users Read on the Web
- This page describes
the best way to present text on a web page. This is important information
for those of us who want our pages to be as useful as possible to
the general WWW population.
- JavaScript from
Webdeveloper.com
- If you want to add
some JavaScript code to your page, check out this useful page.
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