Web Development Resources
General Web Information
The Virtual
Community
The Table of Contents to the influential and visionary book, The Virtual
Community, by Howard Rheingold.
Network Observer
The Network Observer (TNO) is a free on-line newsletter about networks and
democracy edited by Phil Agre of the Department of Communication at the
University of California, San Diego. Volume 1 (1994) was published on a
monthly basis; future volumes will be published irregularly.
Internet JUNKBUSTER
Lots, and LOTS of information about how to stop unwanted junk e-mail and
other electronic privacy intrusions.
The
Anti-Spam Home Page
One of the leading sites to oppose the gross mis-use of the Internet by
e-mail advertisers. Well worth visiting if you are fed up with SPAM!
CERT®
Coordination Center: Virus Resources
"We study Internet security vulnerabilities, provide incident response
services to sites that have been the victims of attack, publish a variety of
security alerts, research security and survivability in wide-area-networked
computing, and develop information to help you improve security at your
site."
Internet Hoaxes
"Computer virus hoaxes are time consuming and costly to handle. This page
describes many of the hoax warnings that are found on the Internet today,
some of the history of hoaxes on the Internet, how to identify a new hoax
warning, how to identify a validated warning and what to do if you think a
message is a hoax."
Urban Legends Archive
An Internet Urban Legend may end up on your doorstep. Check this page out
before you are tricked!
Privacy Issues
Consumer
Information Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission Consumer Privacy section. Offers several helpful
documents related to the Internet.
Internet Scout
Report
The Scout Report is a regular publication provided by the Info Scout and the
InterNIC to provide a sampling of the best of newly announced Internet
resources.
From Now On
An online journal with lots of ideas and help for educators using the World
Wide Web and the Internet, edited by Jamieson McKenzie, the well-known
writer, speaker and presenter of Bellingham, WA.
How
to get a free e-mail account
A selected list of free e-mail providers, listed by InfoPeople.
Internet
Training
From the master of the Web, John December, a huge, well organized set of
links to pages that can show and tell you all you ever wanted to learn about
the Web, and help you teach it to others as well!
Net Origins
A simple history and explanation of what the Internet is. From "EFF's
(Extended) Guide to the Internet. A round trip through Global Networks, Life
in Cyberspace, and Everything..." See the "next section" as well, linked from
the bottom of the page. It explains how it works.
New User
Tutorial
A self-instructional aid to those who are very new to the use of computers
and the Web.
Resources for
Internet Trainers
A direct link to the Library of Congress page on Internet Guides and
Tutorials.
Internet and Computer Terminology
Net Lingo
The online dictionary containing hundreds of words that are emerging as a new
vocabulary surrounding the technology and community of the Internet and the
World Wide Web.
The Webopedia
"4000 computer terms at your fingertips." Search or brows this free resource
to get a very thorough definition of computer terminology terms.
ILC
Glossary of Internet Terms
A thorough source for definitions of words and terms related to the
Internet.
Internet
Terminology and Definitions
Find definitions for those strange and exotic new words you see while using
or reading about the Internet.
Creating Web Sites
Free
File Hosting On the Web
Yahoo's list of places that will provide a free, private place for you to
store your files. With files stored on the Web, you can acess them from
anywhere.
WebMonkey: Lean
& Mean HTML
Tips on designing and creating Web pages that run smoothly and load quickly.
Also links to other aspects of page design.
Purdue Research
Guides
A central site (at Purdue University) where information and links to Web
development information is kept and updated.
THE LIST -- Service Providers By
Area Code
Internet service providers organized by telephone area code are listed here.
Costs are included, along with other relevant information.
Net
Mechanic
A free service that will check your website for efficiency, making sure that
you have properly designed it, and offering suggestions for improvement.
W3Schools
HTML Guide
All about HTML, the HyperText Markup Language used to allow Web documents to
be read and interconnected with each other. Provided by the National Center
for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
HTML
Goodies
All about HTML, the HyperText Markup Language used to allow Web documents to
be read and interconnected with each other. Provided by the National Center
for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
HTML Code
Tutorial
All about HTML, the HyperText Markup Language used to allow Web documents to
be read and interconnected with each other. Provided by the National Center
for Precomputing Applications (NCSA).
What's in a [URL] Name?
An in-depth explanation of the use and understanding of the URL, the Uniform
Resource Locator, from Wikipedia because, well, it's a good writeup and the subject is very complicated.
The Teachers.Net Endite
Handbook
A one-stop Web Page to get teachers started creating WWW Pages, including
nice tips and ideas for using Web browsers, and where to get the free
software for Web authoring and use.
Home Page Generator
Creating your own Homepage is as easy as 1-2-3...
1.Complete the form, 2.See how it looks and make as changes 3. Complete the
"mail me the source" section. It's that easy!
Coding for the Web
(Or: "How to tame the wild Mozilla.") These documents show which Netscape
extensions and attributes are common to HTML 3.0, offers HTML 3.0
alternatives for those that are not, and gives guidelines on their use.
HTML 3.2 for
Netscape 4.0
(Or: "How to tame the wild Mozilla.") These documents show which Netscape
extensions and attributes are common to HTML 3.0, offers HTML 3.0
alternatives for those that are not, and gives guidelines on their use.
HTML
3.2 and Netscape 3.0 Frames
Netscape frames make it possible for documents to divide the browser window
into one or more independently scrollable frames of arbitrary layout, and
then to assign separate document URLs to each of them. Additionally,
hyperlinks in framed documents can update and control not just the contents
of their own frames, but also the contents of other frames and windows as
well, making it possible for web programmers to build extremely pleasing,
sophisticated WWW pages with easy-to-navigate user interfaces.
Where to
start in setting up a Web site
Computer Hope.com (Free computer help for everyone) from Getting Started to
Promoting (getting hits) your page and setting up directories, using images,
Web hosting; this site's Home Page offers much more besides.
Designing Pages With Style on the Web
Top Ten
Mistakes in Web Design
The Top Ten
New Mistakes of Web Design
Have you ever wondered why you are having trouble getting information from a
Web Page that claims to offer everything you ever need to know about
whatever? This article from Sun Microsystems offers a possible
explanation.
Frames Are
A Picnic
Have a Web Page that uses (or could benefit from) frame structure?
Web Monkey, Jill Atkinson, 'splains Frames so even your little ole
gramma in Florida can understand!
The Vision of an
Accomplished Webmaster
A feature article/interview from a 1995 issue of Computer Mediated
Communications online magazine. Reveals how a successful Web Page designer
plans for the production of an excellent page.
Killer Websites Tips for
Writers and Designers
David Siegel's extremely helpful tips on how to create a Web Page that looks
good and does what you want it to do. A "write" friendly page! Free tutorials
and options for fee-based instruction, too.
Sun
Developer's Guide
A high skill-level resource from Sun Microsystems! Instrumental in starting
the Internet in the early days, Sun makers of Java among other Web services,
focuses on Academic Developers here. The SDN is a collaborative resource that
can take your Web page to new heights.
Hypertext
Style Guide
This guide, from the CERN people who developed the WWW, "is designed to help
you create a W3C hypertext database that effectively communicates your
knowledge to the reader. It has been prepared in the light of comments by
readers, and many demands by providers of online documentation."
Web Style Guide
(Yale Press) 2nd Ed
This manual describes the design principles used to create the pages within
the Center for Advanced Instructional Media's (C/AIM) World Wide Web site.
This is not an introduction to HTML authoring, as excellent resources already
exist for those purposes.
Graphical Images to Use on Your Web Pages and Elsewhere
Barry's Clip Art
Server
Lots and LOTS of useful links to downloadable art to use on the Web, and
elsewhere, provided by Barry Pase! Here are several more websites with lots
and lots of images, backgrounds, lines, animations, and other graphics.
Clipart.Com
ABC Giant Graphics for the
Web
Video and Multimedia
Common
Internet File Formats
Similar to the resource above. "This list is mainly intended for use on
Macintosh computers and PC's running MS-Windows. This is only a partial list
of what really is out there but for these common platforms, the majority of
the file types encountered on-line can handled with the tools herein."
Multimedia Web Helper Apps
The many and various multimedia file formats on the Internet require various helper apps
to be installed in the Web browser to handle reading or playing them.
With links to download readers/players.
QuickTime Home
Page
QuickTime is the multimedia architecture used to store, edit and play
synchronized graphics, sound, video, text and music. It is for multimedia
delivered on CD-ROM and the Internet. In other words, QuickTime is the
technology that makes multimedia a reality on Macintosh, Windows and other
platforms, capturing, creating, editing, and delivering multimedia.
Connecting to the Internet
ATT/Yahoo High Speed
Internet Glossary
Alphabetical listing of terms regarding all sorts of networking/Web information including ISDN, DSL, cable and
LAN, WAN and much more. Not entirely simple descriptions, but a complete list.
Local
Phone Co. Web and Phone
The utility company (AT&T) that provides the Internet and Phone
connection for N-M Unified School District, and to most of our area.
Whatever
became of NCSA?
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), one of the five
original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers
Program, opened its doors in January 1986. Today the center is recognized as
an international leader in deploying robust high-performance computing
resources and in working with research communities to develop new computing
and software technologies.
Facts and Information About the Internet and World Wide Web
The Internet
Index
This is an esoteric listing of historic milestones on the NET (last updated
2000 but still very interesting) collection of facts and statistics about the
Internet and related activities. The Index is edited by Win Treese.
Help, Software, Hardware and Using the Web Effectively
The Virtual Doctor's
EarthWeb Developer
Get help with HTML, Javascript and loads of snazzy browser features. Comprehensive
computing resources on other tabs on this Web site. Get software help, grab updates for
operating system, and more! Free software, tutorials, OS update information, etc.)
Everything Technology Radio
Show
The web site for the "O'Donnell on Technology" radio show, featuring: This
Week's Links and Previous Week's Links and Shows for lots of helpful tips.
California Schools'
Software Discount Purchasing Via CTAP
Here is the special pricing available to K-12 schools, due to arrangements
made with CTAP. Only schools and districts may purchase at these prices.
Download.Com
A source of free and inexpensive software which can be downloaded.
Shareware and
Freeware From Tucows
Large collections of free and low cost software for the Internet.
Microsoft Free
Downloads
The Microsoft Company offers free software, including their Internet
Explorer, and lots of others that stand alone or run with other major
Microsoft applications.
Free Internet
Downloads
ZDNet links to their Shareware Library, which offers a wide variety of
freeware and shareware.
Price Scan
Check here for prices on computers and peripherals. They list and compare
prices nationally, with links to the vendors.
Price Watch
Check here also for prices on computers and peripherals. They list and
compare prices nationally, with links to the vendors.
NewsBytes
A daily and weekly collection of news stories about computers and
networking from the Washington Post.
Macworld Online
Online version of Macworld magazine.
Version Tracker
Be sure you have the latest version, download software updates, freeware, shareware for PC/Mac.
Windows Sources
A place for the serious Windows user to get the latest information.
PC Magazine On the
Web
The Web version of Power PC Magazine.
Apple
Product Information and Product Support
An official Apple Web site with company and product information.