Web Development Resources
Updated 2/10/04
General Web Background
- 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.
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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!
- 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."
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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.
- 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."
- 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.
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Learning to Use the Internet, the Web and Its Resources
- 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" pull down menu.
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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.
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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!
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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!
- Teacher
files for web
Graphics for Teachers
Links for teachers
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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.
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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
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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, tutorials, 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.
- 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.
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NewsBytes
- A daily and weekly collection of news stories about computers and
networking.
- Macworld Online
- Online version of Macworld magazine.
- Return to the Stiern Middle School Library Web Links Page..