Web Development Resources

General Web Background

The Virtual Community
The Table of Contents to the influential and visionary book, The Virtual Community, by Howard Rheingold.
The Web Atlas
"For centuries, travelers have pored over atlases to get a sense of the lands they have wanted to see, which routes to take, and what treasures different regions might hold. Like earlier wanderers, we are going to take a fascinating journey, a virtual one--through the astounding universe known as the World Wide Web."
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.
Telecommunications Act of 1996.
The U.S. Law passed by Congress, and signed into law by President Clinton on February 8, 1996 will revolutionize how we communicate through electronic devices, from telephones, to radio and television, as well as computer networks. This link provides a wide range of information about it, including two full-text versions of the law.

Internet Privacy Intrusions, Spams, Hoaxes, Urban Legends, and Viruses

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!
PC Magazine Online: Fighting Junk E-Mail
This resource from PC Magazine Online lists numerous resources for getting rid of unsolicited commercial e-mail.
Death to Spam
A guide to dealing with unwanted e-mail.
How to Get Rid of Junk Mail, Spam, and Telemarketers
Fred Elbel's site "offers tips, techniques, specific addresses to write, and numbers to call to get off those nasty junk mailing lists and telemarketing lists across the U.S." Covers more than e-mail abuse.
Responding to Mail Spam
"Keeping Your Mailbox Junk-Free" is the sub-title of this helpful and interesting article from InterNIC Information and Education Services, the folks designated to help people with Internet use.
Fight Spam On the Internet
"Spam: Flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services."
Blacklist of Internet Advertisers
This is the Blacklist of Internet Advertisers. It is intended to curb inappropriate advertising on usenet newsgroups and via junk e-mail.
The Net Abuse FAQ
These answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are directed at the Usenet, but have a lot of value to people using e-mail who receive perplexing messages.
Sprint's Acceptable Conduct Policy
Sprint is a major Internet service provider (ISP), supplying backbone to regional and local companies that sell access directly to consumers and businesses. Here is the code of conduct policy for their customers. Includes an e-mail address for reporting abuse of their policy.
Computer Virus Myths
Exposes the myths, hoaxes and urban legends that get passed around the Internet over and over and over....
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
"What is an urban legend? Stealing Peter van der Linden's (with the last point from Terry Chan) definition from the alt.folklore.urban FAQ: An urban legend:
a. appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in varying forms
b. contains elements of humor or horror (the horror often "punishes" someone who flouts society's conventions).
d. makes good storytelling. e. does NOT have to be false, although most are.
f. ULs often have a basis in fact, but it's their life after-the-fact (particularly in reference to the second and third points) that gives them particular interest."
Make Money Fast Hall of Humiliation
And finally, to cap off this strange and hauntingly helpful section, a site where those who violate the Netiquette pointed out in the sources in the links directly above! Be careful, for Rolf the MMF Man is watching! ;-)
Democracy and Technology: Privacy Page
Many people surf the web under the illusion that their actions are private and anonymous. Unfortunately, information may be collected about you when you visit a site, since you leave a calling card that reveals where you're coming from, what kind of computer you have, and many other details.
Consumer Information Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission s Bureau of Consumer Protection held a public workshop on Consumer Information Privacy June 10-13, 1997. The workshop is part of the Bureau s Consumer Privacy Initiative, an ongoing effort to bring consumers and businesses together to address consumer privacy issues posed by the emerging online marketplace. Includes section on Consumer Privacy, and also Children's Online Privacy
Consumer Privacy Survey
Survey/testimony before the Federal Trade Commission which reveals Internet user opinions about privacy related issues. (We fiercely want it, and don't like Unsolicited Commercial E-mail!)
"Cookie Monster?"
Arizona Republic newspaper article discusses the "cookie" issue, in which other computers may access your files while you are browsing the Web.

Guides to Finding Useful and New Web Pages

The Internet Services List
A collection of Web Pages, organized according to their subject. This is one of the first and most thorough places of this type, maintained by Internet pioneer, Scott Yanoff.
Net-Happenings
Lots of new resources are appearing on the Internet every day. This is one of the places to find out about some of the more useful sites. Operated by Gleason Sackman.
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.
IAT Infobits
"Infobits is an electronic service of the Institute for Academic Technology's Information Resources Group. Each month we monitor and select from a number of information technology and instruction technology sources that come to our attention and provide brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators."

Learning to Use the Internet, the Web and Its Resources

Internet: Learn to Surf the Net
An online tour and guide to the Internet.
Argus Internet Guides Clearinghouse
The Internet is as much about collaboration and cooperation as anything else. Individuals and organizations make their information resources available, usually free of charge, via the Internet. The Clearinghouse service is to find, describe, evaluate, and make available these guides via a single central location.
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, Director of Libraries, Media and Technology, Bellingham Schools, Bellingham, WA.
Resources for Internet Trainers
The Library of Congress page on Resources for Internet Trainers. It also has a direct link to the Library of Congress page on Internet Guides and Tutorials.
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!
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.
Netscape Handbook
If you are browsing with Netscape right now, this link can be found in the "Help" pulldown menu.
A Guide to Eudora
Eudora is a free (there is a commercial version available too) e-mail application that allows you to read and write e-mail off line. You need a direct-connect, SLIP or PPP route to the Internet to use it.

Creating Web Sites

Web Page Policies
A large collection of links to university policies for Web Page design and management. Excellent guide for those institutions wanting to set standards for their pages.
Web 66: Cookbook
Lots of interesting information about how schools can prepare for their Web Home Page, and lots more related information.
Web Weavers Bibliography
A central site (at Purdue University) where information and links to Web development information is kept and updated.
THE LIST -- Area Code 916
Internet service providers in the 916 area code are listed here. Costs are included, along with other relevant information.
Unix is a Four Letter Word...
Although Unix is a programing language that Web page creators almost never have to use directly, it may be helpful to know some basic commends. This is an online Unix manual, brief and to the point, with the commands succinctly explained.

Maintaining Web Documents and Sites

WebSite Garage
A free service that will check your website for efficiency, making sure that you have properly designed it, and offering suggestions for improvement.
Beginner's HTML Guide
All about HTML, the HyperText Markup Languaged used to allow Web documents to be read and interconnected with each other. Provided by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
HTML Crash Course
Ziff Communications (PC Week Labs) crash course for its own Web Page writers. Direct, simple, and quite useable!
Beginner's URL Guide
An in-depth explanation of the use and understanding of the URL, the Uniform Resource Locator, from NCSA.
The Teachers.Net Website 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 below, specifying the information and features you want on your Homepage.
2.Click the "Create my Homepage!" button to see how your Homepage looks. You can hit "back" in your browser to return to the form and make as many changes as you like.
3.When you're satisfied with your homepage, complete the "mail me the source" section at the bottom. A fully-functioning copy of your homepage will be mailed to the address you specify. It's that easy!
Multimedia File Formats
File formats on the Internet, with links to download them, by Allison Zhang. (Specializes in Windows and PC versions, but is helpful for Mac users.)
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."
HTML 3.0 and Netscape 2.0
(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.
Netscape 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.

Designing Pages With Style on the Web

Top Ten Mistakes in 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.
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.
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!
Sun Guide to Web Style
A superb guide to Web Page design from Sun Microsystems! A very direct and sensible approach to making one's information interesting and useful.
Hypertext Style Guide
This guide, from the CERN people who developed the WWW, "is designed to help you create a WWW 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."
Yale Web Style Manual
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!
Brad's Clip Art
A pretty big file of clip-art, with an interesting assortment of images, organized by image subject.

Video and Multimedia

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.
Multimedia File Formats
File formats on the Internet, with links to download them, by Allison Zhang. (Specializes in Windows and PC versions, but is helpful for Mac users.)

Connecting to the Internet

The Novell Corporation
Information from the company whose software runs our library computer network.
Kegel's ISDN Page
A vast, comprehensive site with all sorts of information on ISDN, one of the commonly used methods to connect to the Web via modem.
Macintosh NCSA Telnet User's Guide
The software that allows machine to machine connections on the Internet has an online guide. Version 2.6.

Facts and Information About the Internet and World Wide Web

Where to announce your new WWW pages and journals
Here are some sites onto which you can announce your new WWW publications. Share what you have created with the World Wide Web!
The Internet Index
The Internet Index is an occasional collection of facts and statistics about the Internet and related activities. The Index is edited by Win Treese.
Computer Virus Myths
One of the annoying things about the INternet are the recirculating hoaxes about viruses, which are exposed on this page.

Help, Software and Ideas for Using the Internet and Web Effectively

The Virtual Doctor's Computing resource
One can get help with a specific problem, download software, grab updates for their operating system, and more! (Windows only.) Free software, tutotials, OS update information, etc.)
Everything Computers Radio Show
The web site for the "O'Donnell on Computers" 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.
California Schools' Price List: Valcom Irvine Direct
The company that provides discount software to California schools. Prices from many software companies are listed here.
Shareware and Freeware From Tucows and Also Here: Tucows Mirror Site
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.
Macintosh FTP sites
Lots of links to Macintosh software archives.
The Top Internet Programs of 1997
ZDNet offers a list (with links) of their top picks for Internet related Windows compatible software that is downloadable. Also gives links to their Shareware Library, which offers a wider variety.
NCSA Mac software
Free software to use on the Internet, from NCSA, including Mosaic, an alternative Web browser to Netscape.
NewsBytes
A daily and weekly collection of news stories about computers and networking.
Web Review
An online magazine that keep a focus on what's happening on the World Wide Web. Witty and informative!
Macworld Online
Online version of Macworld magazine.
PowerPC News
A free electronic magazine for the PowerMac oriented sector of the Internet Community. It is published every two weeks via email, and is read by over 50,000 readers worldwide. Available here, online,
The Power Macintosh Resource Page
A place to visit if you want to keep up on the latest Power Macintosh news and products.
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.
IBM System User International
Every fortnight, IBM System User International provides up to date news and analysis on all the major events in the IBM world. Topics range from the latest product and technology developments to financial and strategic issues affecting the IBM user and supplier.
Macintosh System Error Codes Explained (11/95)
This article explains what some Macintosh system errors actually mean. You can use them to interpret what is happening when your Macintosh gives these errors.
K-12 Apple Support and Information Web
An official Apple Web site especially for the K-12 education community.
Apple Product Information and Product Support
An official Apple Web site with company and product information.

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