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01 Introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web
- First Monday
- "..one of the first peer-reviewed journals on the Internet, about the Internet. First Monday expands the frontiers of academic publishing by combining the traditional values of peer review with publication on the World Wide Web."
http://firstmonday.org
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01 Introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web: Comparing Web Browsers
01 Introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web: Computer-Mediated Communication
- CMC Magazine Archive
- "Please note that this is an archive of past issues of a monthly magazine. The back issues may contain links to
Web sites, resources, and email addresses that are no longer valid. Please use keyword or people searching
techniques to locate resources that may have moved. "
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/archive/
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01 Introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web: Examples of E-commerce Sites
01 Introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web: Guides to Netiquette
- Netiquette Home Page
- "'Netiquette' is network etiquette, the do's and don'ts of
online communication. Netiquette covers both common
courtesy online and the informal 'rules of the road' of
cyberspace. This page provides links to both summary and
detail information about Netiquette for your browsing
pleasure."
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/index.html
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- RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines
- "This document provides a minimum set of guidelines for Network Etiquette (Netiquette) which organizations may
take and adapt for their own use. As such, it is deliberately written in a bulleted format to make adaptation easier
and to make any particular item easy (or easier) to find. It also functions as a minimum set of guidelines for
individuals, both users and administrators. This memo is the product of the Responsible Use of the Network (RUN)
Working Group of the IETF. "
http://marketing.tenagra.com/rfc1855.html
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01 Introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web: Help for Web Page Authors and Designers
01 Introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web: History of the Internet
01 Introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web: Learn More
- The Living Internet
- "The mission of this web site is to make comprehensive, in-depth information about the Internet available to everyone around the world. The site was developed from 1996 to 1999, launched on January 7'th, 2000, and is updated weekly."
http://livinginternet.com/
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01 Introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web: Myths Scams and Hoaxes
- purportal.com: the bunk stops here
- From the Scout Report - " E-Scribe New Media brings purportal.com to the Web in an effort to combat hoaxes and misinformation. Here users can search five of the most well-known sites dedicated to setting the record straight: Snopes Urban Legends Archive, About.com Urban Legends search, CIAC Hoax Database, CERT Computer Security Database, and Symantec (Real) Virus Encyclopedia. The site also features a special page devoted to hoaxes related to the events of September 11 and a list of helpful links."
http://www.purportal.com/
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02 How the Internet Works and Getting Connected
02 How the Internet Works and Getting Connected: Getting More Information About How The Internet Works
- How Web Servers and the Internet Works
- by Marshall Brain
" Have you ever wondered about the mechanisms that delivered this page to you? Chances are you are sitting at a computer right now, viewing this page in a browser -- so when you clicked on the link for this page, or typed in its URL (Uniform Resource Locator), what happened behind the scenes to bring this page onto your screen? If you've ever been curious about the process, or have ever wanted to know some of the specific mechanisms that allow you to surf the Internet, then this edition of How Stuff Works will be a real eye opener for you. You will learn about the Internet, and how Web browsers and Web servers use it to bring pages into your home, school or office. Let's get started!"
http://www.howstuffworks.com/web-server.htm
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- IETF RFC page
- A collection of Request For Comment (RFC)documents produced by the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF). These RFCs give the definition and specification of the protocols used on the Internet.
"The Requests for Comments (RFC) document series is a set of technical and organizational notes about the Internet (orginally the ARPANET). Memos in the RFC series discuss many aspects of computer networking, including protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, as well as meeting notes, opinions, and sometimes humor." - http://www.rfc-editor.org/
http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html
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02 How the Internet Works and Getting Connected: Selecting an ISP and Getting Connected
- CNET reviews 5 major ISPs
- "We test-drove five of the largest national ISPs operating in the United States--America Online, AT&T WorldNet, CompuServe, EarthLink, and MSN Internet Access--to find out which provided the best balance of dial-up connections, customer service, useful features, and an all-around pleasant experience. "
March 6, 2001
http://home.cnet.com/internet/0-3762-8-4951560-1.html
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- Webmonkey Guide to Finding an ISP
- "These days, it doesn't really matter
what you're doing; even standing at
the bus stop, minding your own
business, you'll be bombarded by ads
for ISPs (Internet service providers).
They're on buses, on billboards, on
T-shirts, on TV, in the paper. America
Online even has bumper stickers ("I'd
rather be online"). It's enough to
drive anyone crazy. So how do you
find the right ISP for you?"
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/guides/web/isp.html
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02 How the Internet Works and Getting Connected: Understanding and Dealing With Error Messages
02 How the Internet Works and Getting Connected: nslookup
03 Communication on the Internet
03 Communication on the Internet: Comparing Instant Messaging Software
03 Communication on the Internet: Dealing with spam
- Spam Cop
- A service to use for dealign with spam. At no charge, spamcop will route spam you received to the system administrator of the system that sent the spam. You can sign up for a paid service that will help to filter spam from you email.
http://spamcop.net/
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- Welcome to CAUCE!
- 'CAUCE, The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email is an ad hoc, all volunteer organization, created by Netizens to advocate for a legislative solution to the problem of UCE (a/k/a "spam").'
http://www.cauce.org/
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03 Communication on the Internet: Electronic Privacy
- Employee Monitoring: Is there privacy in the workplace?
- "Employers want to be sure their employees are doing a good job, but employees don't want their every sneeze or trip to the water cooler logged. That's the essential conflict of workplace monitoring.
New technologies make it possible for employers to monitor many aspects of their employees' jobs, especially on
telephones, computer terminals and through electronic and voice mail. Such monitoring is virtually unregulated.
Therefore, unless company policy specifically states otherwise, your employer may listen, watch and read most of your workplace communications."
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs7-work.htm
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- The Privacy Pages
- Table of Contents
What's New - UseNet - PGP, Encryption, and Computer Security - PGP
Related Software - Hackers, Phreakers, and Pirates - Articles and Periodicals -
Anonymous Servers - Invasions of Privacy - Privacy Organizations -
Feedback/comments
http://www.orlandomaildrop.com/privacy.html
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03 Communication on the Internet: Histories of IRC MUDs and MOOs
- MOO-Cows FAQ
- "The "MOO Frequently Asked Question List" is maintained by Ken Fox (
moo-faq@www.moo.mud.org). Direct all questions or comments concerning this FAQ to
him. Submissions and questions are welcome and appreciated. Ken Fox makes no warranty
regarding the fitness of any of the information in this FAQ."
http://www.moo.mud.org/moo-faq/
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- The MUDdex
- "Copyright 1993 by Lauren P. Burka
Maintained by Lauren P. Burka
"MUD stands for Multi-User Dungeon. Or Multi-User Dimension. Or Mauve Ugly Ducks."
-ashne
I have collected here documents pertaining to the history of MUDS. Most of these documents
are posts saved from Usenet, MUD-related mailing lists, or logs of MUD interactions.
Many of them are of historical or humorous interest. MUD software is still evolving. Computer
interaction, where identities are fluid and the division between word and deed is nonexistant,
presents new and unique problems that may never be solved."
http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/lpb/muddex/
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03 Communication on the Internet: IRC
- mIRC Homepage
- "IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a virtual meeting place where people from all over
the world can meet and talk; you'll find the whole diversity of human interests, ideas, and issues here, and you'll be able to participate in group discussions on one of the many thousands of IRC channels, or just talk in private to family or friends, wherever they are in the world.
To use IRC you need a small program like mIRC, a shareware IRC client for Windows, written by Khaled Mardam-Bey. mIRC is a friendly IRC client that is well equipped with options and tools. You can download mIRC here to try it out."
http://www.geocities.com/~mirc/
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03 Communication on the Internet: MOOs
- MOOs, Not Just Cows*
- 'I'm borrowing a definition from Drew Smith
who
teaches
internet courses here at the University of South Florida:
A MOO is an interactive, text-based, computer environment in which
multiple users can
communicate with each other in real-time, while moving about within a set
of linked, virtual "rooms".
Each room is associated with a textual description, and may contain one or
more objects, each with
their own textual descriptions. In some ways, a MOO resembles a cross between chat rooms and
the World Wide Web (without the graphics).'
http://www.lib.usf.edu/~ifrank/lis5937/moo.html
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03 Communication on the Internet: MUDs
- The Mud Faq
- "TMC is proud to be able to take over maintenance and upkeep of the MUD FAQ, created and maintained by Jennifer Smith since 1990. The MUD FAQ is a general-purpose document designed to introduce the prospective mudder to various aspects of mudding. The FAQ is broken down into 4 main sections"
1. MUDs and MUDding
2. MUD Clients and Servers
3. RWHO and mudwho
4. Servers at a glance
http://www.mudconnect.com/mudfaq/index.html
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- The MUD Resource Collection
- "The MUD Resource Collection is a list of links to many useful sources of MUD information.
The links should be of interest to both "normal" users of MUDs, as well as to researchers studying MUDs and related forms of computer-mediated communications. These pages are provided as a service to the academic community."
http://www.godlike.com/muds/
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03 Communication on the Internet: PGP
- MIT distribution site for PGP
- "PGP® or Pretty Good Privacy® is a powerful cryptographic product family that enables people to securely exchange messages, and to secure
files, disk volumes and network connections with both privacy and strong authentication."
http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html
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03 Communication on the Internet: Telephony Video and Internet Conferencing
03 Communication on the Internet: Where are the Chat Sites
- Alpha World
- "Dating back to the inception of the Active Worlds technology, AlphaWorld has become home to hundreds of thousands of virtual homesteaders. From ranch style tract homes to impenetrable stone fortresses to underground caverns - in AlphaWorld there's a place for everyone and room for infinite imagination."
http://www.activeworlds.com/tour/alpha.html
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- The Cybertown Palace
- "The Cybertown Palace is a large virtual space filled with lots of surprises. Inside, you'll meet Cybertown Citizens from all over the
universe. You can create artwork together or you can play games
together. All in real-time! "
http://www.cybertown.com/palace.html
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03 Communication on the Internet: Writing Effective Email
- A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email
- "Revision 2.0 -- Kaitlin Duck Sherwood
[Introduction] [What Makes Email Different?] [Context] [Format] [Page Layout] [Intonation]
[Gestures] [Status] [Formality] [Greetings and Signatures] [Summary]
[Appendix A: Bibliography] [Appendix B: Acronyms and Jargon] [Appendix C: Domain
Names] "
http://www.webfoot.com/advice/estyle.html
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04 Electronic Mail
05 Email Discussion Groups
- Tip World
- Tip World is a service that will send you email once a day about one or several topics. To get email about its
mailing list reviews, use the URL
to access the site on the Web and
select E-mail Mailing List Reviews.
http://www.topica.com/tipworld/
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06 Usenet News
06 Usenet News: Finding Newsgroups
- TILE.NET/NEWS
- "TILE.NET/NEWS
The Complete Reference to Usenet Newsgroups * Listed by Newsgroup Hierarchy * Listed by Description Index * Or search for your favorite topic."
http://tile.net/news/
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06 Usenet News: Information About Usenet
06 Usenet News: Some Classic Papers About Usenet
- A Primer on How to Work with the Usenet Community
- "This document is not intended to teach you how to use Usenet. Instead, it is a guide to using it politely, effectively and efficiently. Communication by computer is new to almost everybody, and there are certain aspects that can make it a frustrating experience until you get used to them. This document should help you avoid the worst traps."
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/primer/part1/
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- How to find the right place to post (FAQ)
- "There are thousands of Usenet newsgroups, and it is sometimes difficult to find the right newsgroup to ask a question or start a discussion.
This document gives some general methods of finding the right newsgroup or mailing list for a topic.
* Resources for new Usenet users
* Things that should not be posted to Usenet
* Understanding the Usenet hierarchies
* Finding the right newsgroup
* Binaries (images, executables, sounds, etc.)
* Crossposting to multiple newsgroups
* Choosing a good Subject: header
* Finding FAQs and other Periodical Postings
* Finding public mailing lists
* Starting a new Usenet newsgroup
* About this post
* Appendix: Anonymous FTP"
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/finding-groups/general/
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- How to Make the Best Use of Usenet News
- "Please, help to keep the Usenet useful!
* Read before posting,
* Read the fine manuals (RTFM),
* Get local help,
* Do not repeat frequently asked questions (FAQ), * When in doubt, use e-mail instead of posting (publishing) to a newsgroup,
* Follow the "Netiquette" rules and conventions, and always remember that you are communicating with millions of people all over the world!"
http://www.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/1.1/news/news2.html
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- What Is Usenet?
- 'Usenet is a world-wide distributed discussion system. It consists of a
set of "newsgroups" with names that are classified hierarchically by
subject. "Articles" or "messages" are "posted" to these newsgroups by
people on computers with the appropriate software -- these articles are
then broadcast to other interconnected computer systems via a wide
variety of networks. Some newsgroups are "moderated"; in these
newsgroups, the articles are first sent to a moderator for approval
before appearing in the newsgroup. Usenet is available on a wide variety
of computer systems and networks, but the bulk of modern Usenet traffic
is transported over either the Internet or UUCP.'
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part1
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07 Getting Around the World Wide Web Using a Web Browser
07 Getting Around the World Wide Web Using a Web Browser: About Browsers
- Browser News
- "This weekly newsletter gives you news about browsers, helps you find browsers both old and new, answers the question "why update?", reports internet statistics, and discusses year 2000 issues.
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/
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07 Getting Around the World Wide Web Using a Web Browser: Cookies
- Cookie Central
- "Welcome to Cookie Central.
We are dedicated to provide full information upon Internet Cookies, read below for our latest features, If you don't know what cookies
are read the description below."
http://www.cookiecentral.com/
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07 Getting Around the World Wide Web Using a Web Browser: Digital Certificates
07 Getting Around the World Wide Web Using a Web Browser: Privacy and Snooping
- Privacy Initiatives
- "The Federal Trade Commission is educating consumers and businesses about the importance of personal information privacy. Read more about our efforts, what we've learned, and what you can do to protect the privacy of your personal information."
http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/index.html
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07 Getting Around the World Wide Web Using a Web Browser: Security Tips
- Internet Firewalls Frequently Asked Questions
- "Firewalls have come a long way from the days when this FAQ started. They've gone from being highly customized
systems administered by their implementors to a mainstream commodity. Firewalls are no longer solely in the hands of
those who design and implement security systems; even security-conscious end-users have them at home.
We wrote this FAQ for computer systems developers and administrators. We have tried to be fairly inclusive, making
room for the newcomers, but we still assume some basic technical background. If you find that you don't understand this
document, but think that you need to know more about firewalls, it might well be that you actually need to get more
background in computer networking first. We provide references that have helped us; perhaps they'll also help you. "
http://www.interhack.net/pubs/fwfaq/
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- Selecting Good Passwords
- "The object when choosing a password is to make it as difficult as possible for a cracker to make
educated guesses about what you've chosen. This leaves him no alternative but a brute-force search,
trying every possible combination of letters, numbers, and punctuation. A search of this sort, even
conducted on a machine that could try one million passwords per second (most machines can try less
than one hundred per second), would require, on the average, over one hundred years to complete. "
http://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/Docs/passwd.html
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07 Getting Around the World Wide Web Using a Web Browser: Tutorials and Guides for Internet Explorer
07 Getting Around the World Wide Web Using a Web Browser: Tutorials and Guides for Netscape Navigator
08 Finding Information on the World Wide Web
08 Finding Information on the World Wide Web: Agents
- A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
- "The advent of software agents gave rise to much discussion of just what such an agent is,
and of how they differ from programs in general. Here we propose a formal definition of an
autonomous agent which clearly distinguishes a software agent from just any program. We
also offer the beginnings of a natural kinds taxonomy of autonomous agents, and discuss
possibilities for further classification. Finally, we discuss subagents and multiagent
systems. "
http://www.msci.memphis.edu/%7Efranklin/AgentProg.html
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- BotSpot
- "* Best of the Bots
* List of All Bots
* Bot News
* FAQs on Bots
* Secret Agent Man
* What's a Bot?"
http://botspot.com
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- Competing for the Future with Intelligent Agents
- "In this first of a
two-part article we explore the what and why of
this advanced technology, its business and
technical benefits and implications. In part two we
will explore how to apply the paradigm to
business, explore architectures and standards,
and explain the relationship with object
technology - in particular the Object Management
Group's Object Management Architecture. "
http://home1.gte.net/pfingar/agents_doc_rev4.htm
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08 Finding Information on the World Wide Web: Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights
08 Finding Information on the World Wide Web: Directories
08 Finding Information on the World Wide Web: Filtering and Blocking Agents
- "TIFAP: The Internet Filter Assessment Project
- "TIFAP, The Internet Filter Assessment Project ran from April to
September, 1997. It was a librarian-led project managed by
librarian and author Karen G. Schneider. The purpose of this
project was to take a hard look at Internet content filters from a
librarian's point of view. Several dozen librarians from around the world participated. Some are filter proponents; some are not. All believe you don't know a tool until you test it. "
http://www.bluehighways.com/tifap
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08 Finding Information on the World Wide Web: Information About Directories on the Web
- Using Subject Directories
- "A subject directory is a catalog of sites collected and organized by humans. Subject directories are often called subject "trees" because they start with a few main categories and then branch out into
subcategories, topics, and subtopics. To find the homepage for the Atlanta Braves at Yahoo!, for example, select "Recreation & Sports" at the top level, "Sports" at the next level, "Baseball" at the third
level, "Major League Baseball" at the fourth level, "Teams" at the fifth level, then finally "Atlanta Braves." '
http://home.sprintmail.com/~debflanagan/subject.html
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08 Finding Information on the World Wide Web: Meta-Search Tools
08 Finding Information on the World Wide Web: Search Engine Information on the World Wide Web
- Search Engine Showdown
- " Search Engine Showdown, the users' guide to Web searching, compares and evaluates Internet search engines from the searcher's perspective. Developed originally as a way to keep track of the search engines and share that information, the site has grown to include
* Search engine features chart
* Detailed search engine reviews
* An online newsletter
* Statistical analysis
* Search strategies"
http://www.notess.com/search/
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- Search Engine Watch
- "Search Engine Watch provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines. The site was created by Danny Sullivan, an Internet consultant and journalist who continues to maintain the site for internet.com. He is assisted by associate editor Chris Sherman.
"
http://searchenginewatch.com
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08 Finding Information on the World Wide Web: Search Engines
08 Finding Information on the World Wide Web: Search Tutorials
- Web Searching Tutorial
- "Searching the Web is not easy. There is a lot of junk out there, and it can be frustrating to
sift through it all. I would imagine you have tried to use the search engines like Alta Vista
or Lycos, and have run into the fact that its difficult to easily find the information you need.This tutorial will help."
http://www.askscott.com/tindex.html
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08 Finding Information on the World Wide Web: Virtual Libraries
09 Successful Search Strategies
- Basic Search Strategy: the Ten Steps
- "The following list provides a guideline for you to follow in formulating search requests, viewing search results, and modifying search results. These procedures can be followed for virtually any
search request, from the simplest to the most complicated. For some search requests, you may not want or need to go through a formal search strategy. If you want to save time in the long run, however, it's a good idea to follow a strategy, especially when you're new to a particular search engine. "
http://www.webliminal.com/search/10steps.htm
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09 Successful Search Strategies: Search Features and Search Engines
- Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals
- "Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals is a unique publication that explores and deliberates on a comprehensive range of issues important to the professional database searcher. The magazine is targeted to experienced,
knowledgeable searchers and combines evaluations of data content with discussions of
delivery media. Searcher includes evaluated online news, searching tips and techniques, reviews of search aid software and database documentation, revealing interviews with leaders and entrepreneurs of the industry, and trenchant editorials. Whatever the experienced database searcher needs to know to get the job done is covered in Searcher. "
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/
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- Using a Search Engine
- "The four main steps in using a search engine are: translation from your search request into search terms that you type, methods of combining the search terms to give the computer more information about your search request, examining the results presented, and re-searching if needed. This cycle can be repeated as necessary until you have found that which you are looking for or you decide that you have exhausted the selection from this search engine, and you move onto another tool."
http://www.askscott.com/sec2.html
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09 Successful Search Strategies: Spiders Robots Indexing
- The Web Robots pages
- "Web Robots are programs that traverse the Web automatically. Some people call them Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders. These pages have further information about these Web Robots. "
A collection of resources about Web robots or spiders.
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html
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10 Specialized Databases
11 Selecting Evaluating and Citing Information from the Internet
12 Managing and Using Information from the Internet
12 Managing and Using Information from the Internet: Copyright and Intellectual Property
- intellectual property law server
- "The intellectual property law
server provides information about
intellectual property law including
patent, trademark and
copyright. Resources include
comprehensive links, general
information, space for
professionals to publish articles
and forums for discussing related issues."
http://www.intelproplaw.com/
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- The Copyright Website
- "This site endeavors to provide real
world, practical and relevant copyright information of interest to infonauts,
netsurfers, webspinners, content providers, musicians, appropriationists,
activists, infringers, outlaws, and law abiding citizens."
http://www.benedict.com/
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12 Managing and Using Information from the Internet: File Formats
- Every File Format in the World
- "This is a list of file name extension or
suffixes that indicate the format or usage of a file and a brief description of that format.
We don't really show the file format itself here. In fact, many formats are proprietary and we couldn't show them to you.
In some cases, we link to a definition of the file format or to related information. "
http://whatis.techtarget.com/fileFormatA/0,289933,sid9,00.html
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13 Transferring Files Using FTP
14 Putting Information on the Web
- HTML Help by the Web Design Group
- "The Web Design Group was founded to promote the creation of non-browser specific, non-resolution specific, creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide. To this end, the WDG offers material on a wide range of HTML related topics. We hope that with this site as a reference, you will be able to create Web sites that can be used by every person on the Internet, regardless of browser, platform, or settings."
http://www.htmlhelp.com/
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14 Putting Information on the Web: Browser-Safe Colors
- The Browser-Safe Color Palette
- "The Browser-Safe Palette only contains 216 colors out of a possible 256. That is because the remaining 40 colors vary on Macs and PCs. By eliminating the 40 variable colors, this palette is optimized for cross-platform use."
Site by Lynda Weinman contains lots of useful information about use of color and design.
http://www.lynda.com/hex.html
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14 Putting Information on the Web: Evaluating Web Pages and Web Sites
- Evaluation of information sources
- "This page contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. It is intended to be particularly useful to librarians and others who are selecting sites to include in an information resource guide, or informing users as to the qualities they should use in evaluating Internet information. Feedback and suggestions of other sites for inclusion are welcomed by the site maintainer, Alastair Smith."
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm
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14 Putting Information on the Web: Getting Your Web Site Noticed
- Promotion 101 - Web Site Marketing and Promotion Info Center
- "Promotion 101 - Web Marketing Info Center. Search engines are the most popular way (and usually the only way) smaller web sites can be found since they are portals to the world wide web. Studies show it's more likely a person will click on a link to your site from a search engine before they click on a banner ad, so it's critical your web site be ranked high on search engines. We hope this site will help you increase your traffic."
http://www.Promotion101.com
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 38 )
- Search Engine Submission Tips
- " This section of Search Engine Watch is primarily for webmasters, site owners and web marketers. It covers search engine submission and registration issues. It explains how search engines find and rank web pages, with an emphasis on what webmasters can do to improve their search engine placement by using better page design, HTML meta tags, and other tips." By Danny Sullivan
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.html
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14 Putting Information on the Web: Guides to Web Design
14 Putting Information on the Web: Information Architecture
- Managing Web Resources for Persistent Access
- "Creators, publishers, libraries and other information repositories all
have a vital role to play in ensuring web based information resources can be located and accessed for use in the current environment and into the future.
These guidelines are intended to assist those responsible for the management of published online materials to make sure links made to those resources continue to work."
http://www.nla.gov.au/guidelines/2000/persistence.html
(Added: 9-Jun-2001 Hits: 8 )
- Web Architect
- "The Web Architect column is written by a team of Web consultants from Argus Associates in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Lead by Lou Rosenfeld, the team of Web Architects help you understand how to organize
information more effectively on your site."
http://www.webreview.com/1998/08_14/
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 39 )
14 Putting Information on the Web: Internet and Web Statistics
- Internet Domain Survey
- "The Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet by
doing a complete search of the Domain Name System. It is sponsored by the Internet Software Consortium with technical operations subcontracted to Network Wizards."
http://www.isc.org/ds
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 37 )
- Media Metrix
- "Media Metrix is setting the
standard for Internet and Digital Media measurement
worldwide, focused on
measuring all people in all
places on all media platforms. We are the global source for accurate, reliable and timely
behavioral data and at the
core of clients' critical
strategic business decisions."
http://www.mediametrix.com
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 37 )
- NUA Internet Surveys
- "Nua Internet Surveys is the authoritative source
online for information on Internet demographics
and trends. Its information reaches 200,000
people worldwide every week and has been
translated into Russian, German, Greek,
Portuguese, Italian, Hebrew and Spanish. Nua
Internet Surveys is a database containing over
three years of information gathered and collated
by Nua."
http://www.nua.ie/surveys
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 39 )
14 Putting Information on the Web: Publicizing a Web Site
14 Putting Information on the Web: Selecting a Web Presence Provider
14 Putting Information on the Web: Tools to Help Create Web Pages
14 Putting Information on the Web: Weblogs
15 Writing Web Pages
- HTML 4.01 Specification
- "This specification defines the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the
publishing language of the World Wide Web. This specification defines HTML
4.01, which is a subversion of HTML 4. In addition to the text, multimedia, and
hyperlink features of the previous versions of HTML (HTML 3.2 [HTML32] and HTML 2.0 [RFC1866]), HTML 4
supports more multimedia options, scripting languages, style sheets, better
printing facilities, and documents that are more accessible to users with disabilities. HTML 4 also takes great strides towards the internationalization
of documents, with the goal of making the Web truly World Wide."
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/cover.html
(Added: 16-Jun-2001 Hits: 9 )
15 Writing Web Pages: Information About Creating Web Pages
15 Writing Web Pages: Information About Creating Web Pages: Discussion groups
15 Writing Web Pages: Information About Creating Web Pages: Listings in Directories
- The Virtual Library of WWW Development
- "A comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia of web technology, The Web
Developer's Virtual Library is a well-organised goldmine of tutorials,
examples, and links to great resources. It's for webmasters and Internet developers who are creating web sites with HTML, CGI, Java, JavaScript, graphics, VRML, multimedia, animation, etc."
http://wdvl.internet.com/Vlib/
(Added: 4-Dec-2000 Hits: 35 )
15 Writing Web Pages: Information About Creating Web Pages: Newsgroups
15 Writing Web Pages: Information About Creating Web Pages: Tutorials and Guides
- Complete HTML Reference Guide
- A nice piece of work. "Your complete HTML reference guide. Whether you are a web programming pro, or just a curious beginner, this site is sure to help you with any web development related questions you may have. "
http://www.bensplanet.com/
(Added: 13-May-2002 Hits: 0 )
- Table Tutor
- "Hello. My name is Joe and I'm going to give you a few simple lessons on how to make tables for your web documents. You might be thinking that a table is simply one of these but if you've ever seen some of them fancy-like web pages you might be interested to find out that they make good use of the TABLE tags! Just to illustrate, here is the same page with a gray background and the table BORDERs turned on.
"
http://www.sitebuildingtools.com/tables.html
(Added: 2-Sep-2001 Hits: 10 )
15 Writing Web Pages: Personal Web Pages
- Personal Home Pages and the Construction of Identities on the Web
- "Abstract: The ?personal home page? is a new genre brought into existence by that branch of the Internet which is known as the World-Wide Web. Personal home pages are online multi-media texts which address the question, ?Who Am I??. Since the Web is, amongst other things, a global publishing system, such pages make public the personal. At the same time they can be seen as making personal the public, since home page authors engage in bricolage, adopting and adapting borrowed material from the public domain of the Web in the process of fashioning personal and public
identities. In such sites, what are visibly ?under construction? are not only the pages but the authors themselves. This may have particular value for some marginalized groups."
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/webident.html
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 38 )
15 Writing Web Pages: Sources for Images and Graphics
15 Writing Web Pages: Special Characters
- ISO Latin-1 Character Set
- "This is a list of the HTML entity names of all of the ISO Latin-1 characters. Every symbol may be designated either by its entity name or by its decimal ASCII code number. In the latter case, the decimal ASCII code number is always preceded by an ampersand & and hash mark #, and followed by a semi-colon ;. " By by David Harper and Lynne Marie Stockman
http://www.obliquity.com/computer/html/symbols.html
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 37 )
- ISO8859-1/HTML stuff
- "Up to and including HTML3.2, the document character set and the default transmission
encoding were iso-8859-1, and this was the only coding that a browser would have to
implement in order to satisfy the specifications. In practice, many browsers supported other
character encodings to some useful extent, but that lies outside of the scope of this particular discussion." By A.J.Flavell
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/iso8859/
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 36 )
15 Writing Web Pages: Web Page Colors
- The Browser-Safe Color Palette
- "The Browser-Safe Palette, as I so named it, is the actual palette that Mosaic, Netscape, and Internet Explorer use within their browsers. The palettes used by these browsers are slightly different on Macs and PCs. This palette is based on math, not beauty. I didn't and wouldn't have picked the colors in this palette, but Netscape, Mosaic, and Internet Explorer did, so...." Lynda Weinman
http://www.lynda.com/hex.html
(Added: 1-Sep-2001 Hits: 8 )
16 Enhancing Web Pages
- TUCOWS HTML Stuff
- "This site will help show you how to design a site from start to finish and beyond. Plus, with programs and scripts from MS Windows, Linux, Apple, and BeOS you can be assured that all of the tools you will need to design a site can all be found in one place!"
http://html.tucows.com/
(Added: 29-Apr-2002 Hits: 7 )
- About CGI
- CGI programs are programs that run or execute on a server, not the client as is the case with Java and JavaScript. In a nutshell, a Web page (on a client system) through a form or an image tag makes a reference a CGI program. The input data for the program is taken from the Web page, the program processes the data, and the program may produce output as a Web page that is sent back to the client system.
If your Web hosting service gives access to CGI programs or if you use some of the free CGI services on the Web, you'll get a copy of the HTML to use. Then you customize it as necessary to fit your application. In either case you need to know:
- the appropriate HTML to use
- the URL of the CGI program
- what variables and values you have to supply or change
http://
(Added: 16-Apr-2002 Hits: 3 )
- The Web Standards Project
- "The WEB STANDARDS PROJECT is a coalition of web developers and users. Our mission is to stop the fragmentation of the web, by persuading browser makers
that standards are in everyone's best interest. Together we can make the web accessible to all"
http://www.webstandards.org/
(Added: 16-Jun-2001 Hits: 9 )
16 Enhancing Web Pages: About Audio Files
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio
- "This document contains some pointers to information on computer-based audio sound and associated software available around the world on the World Wide Web (WWW or W3), the global hypermedia system which provides worldwide information. The following information is available:
* General repositories
* Newsgroups
* On-line radio
* Software
* Books (also in the UK)
* Other information and items"
http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/audio.html
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 38 )
16 Enhancing Web Pages: Creating Audio Files for Web Pages
- Audio for the Worldwide Web
- By Charlie Morris. "There's a revolution under way in the audio world, but it's just beginning to intersect with the revolution called the Worldwide Web. All major browsers can handle a variety of audio (and video) formats with ease, and including audio on a Web site is theoretically no more complicated than including graphics. Web audio is booming in certain areas such as Internet radio stations and online music distribution, but few mainstream Web sites include sound. Why is the Web still mainly a silent world? This article explains the basics of adding sound to a Web site, discusses the pros and cons of various formats, and takes a look ahead at some really world-shaking things to come. "
http://wdvl.internet.com/Multimedia/Sound/Audio/
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 40 )
16 Enhancing Web Pages: Creating Video Files
16 Enhancing Web Pages: Details About the EMBED Tag
16 Enhancing Web Pages: Going to the Source for Information About Java
- The Source for Java Technology
- The home page for java resources by Sun Microsystems. "*Press *Java Tutorial *JavaOne *Java Community *Process *XML *Jini Technology *Applets *Employment *Java Wear & Books *Consumer &
Embedded "
http://java.sun.com/
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 36 )
16 Enhancing Web Pages: Going to the Source for Information About JavaScript
- About JavaScript
- Most Web browsers include an interpreter (part of the browser software) that will interpret and execute instructions written in a language called JavaScript. These instructions are part of the Web page and are translated or interpreted by the browser on the client system. They aren?t compiled first, as is the case with Java programs. JavaScript includes ways, for example, to write instructions that respond to events that occur while a person is viewing a Web page. These events include opening or closing a Web page, moving the mouse over a region of a form, clicking on a button on a Web page, or selecting an item from a menu. A script could collect and verify input from a user before passing it back to a server or an applet.
http://www.webliminal.com/essentials/fyis/16_Enhancing_Web_Pages/Going_to_the_Source_for_Information_About_JavaScript/
(Added: 16-Apr-2002 Hits: 2 )
16 Enhancing Web Pages: JavaScript Information Tutorials and Guides
- JavaScript - The complete gate
- This site is the JavaScript gateway to the Internet; you can learn here the
language fundamental with a lot of examples. The site also offers you
forum, games, tools, books & FAQ in JavaScript and a lot more...
http://www.gatescript.com
(Added: 19-Jan-2002 Hits: 0 )
16 Enhancing Web Pages: Pointers About Animated GIFs
- Animation Factory
- "Over 30,000 Original Animations and Designs for use on web pages, email and presentations.
These animations are the hard work of a dedicated group of artists here at the Animation Factory. (more about us.) We hope you enjoy your visit. It has been our goal to provide you with several thousand fun and useful animations. If you like what you see here, you may want to check out our special members site at www.animfactory.net"
http://www.animfactory.com/
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 39 )
- GIF Animation on the WWW
- "Everything you need to create GIF89a animations is here. The pages have been mirrored on sites around the world. Some of the mirrors are out of date, some are automatically copied from the source on a daily or weekly basis. Volunteers around the world have translated part or all of this site into multiple languages, including German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese (possibly Dutch, Russian and French in the future)."
http://members.aol.com/royalef/gifanim.htm
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 40 )
16 Enhancing Web Pages: Reducing Colors in Images
16 Enhancing Web Pages: Resources for Your Web Site
- Miscellaneous Free Webmaster Tools
- From thefreecountry.com. One of several pages with free resources, articles, and advice. "ABOUT THIS PAGE
This is a general catch-all page of webmaster and web designer resources and tools that could not fit into our other pages on this site. In general, you should look at the specific category page for the tool you want and only scan this page if you could not find a page for it. "
http://www.thefreecountry.com/ecentricity/webmaster.html
(Added: 3-May-2002 Hits: 0 )
- CPSC470G Open Directory
- An open directory project used in my course CPSC470G - Providing Interactive Web Services, at Mary Washington College. The directory contains links to resources and information pertinent to providing Web services.
http://mary.mwc.edu:8080/links470
(Added: 27-Feb-2002 Hits: 7 )
16 Enhancing Web Pages: Shareware to Manipulate Images
16 Enhancing Web Pages: Usability
- Usability
- "Usability: the degree to which a user can successfully learn and use a product to achieve a goal. The usability of a Web site is a measure of the degree to which a user can understand the navigational structure of a site and find the information they are looking for. Usability in the context of the Web involves two elements; Web usability or user centered design methods and Web usability testing. Ideally the two are used together in an ongoing iterative design/test process to maximize the usability of any given Web site. "
http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr559a/winter2000/resources/usability.htm
(Added: 6-Nov-2000 Hits: 36 )
16 Enhancing Web Pages: Where to Find Java Applets
16 Enhancing Web pages: CGI-BIN
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