Links to Live By
The World Wide Web is a big place with lots of things to see, do, and discover. I've compiled a few links that I think you will enjoy. I have included pointers to developer areas for those who crave the knowledge, some generally fun stuff to relax your mind, and anything else I could find. I update this page weekly.
Fun Links
- Hotwired - Wired Wired
- The Center for the Easily Amused - A perfect waste of time
- Happy Puppy - Games! Games! Games!
- LEGO - Love that Lego
- Gary Apple - Will he jump?
Shockwave Links
- Hollywood online - Hollywood joins the web with style
- Shockwave baubles - They're cool plus they're small! (under 12K!)
- Macromedia - They make shockwave possible
Popular HTML Editors, tools, references, etc.
What you use is your choice. In the end, they all produce the same thing - just a little differently than the next.
- Microsoft Frontpage - PC Magazine's Editors Choice - $150
- WebEdit Pro 2.0 - Highly rated by PC Magazine - $130
- Netscape Gold 3.0 - Available here in the classroom - $80
- HTMLed Pro 32 - good interface, but doesn't support HTML 3.2 - $100
- HTML Assistant Pro - $100
- HoTMetaL Pro - supports HTML 3.2, but no site management - $160
- HotDog 32 - non-standard interface and no frames - $100
- Map This! - Windows program to create image maps.
- Color Manipulation Device - Easily find the hex value for any color. CMD even creates the HTML code for you!
- Background Textures - Dozens of images to use as a background on your web page.
- LView Pro - Graphic Image Utility - create transparent/interlaced GIFs
- Introduction to CGI Scripts and HTML Forms - Hopefully, more than you ever wanted to know....
- HTML Background FAQ - Everything you want/need to know about document backgrounds
- The Official HTML Reference - The W3 Consortium - the people who ratify the HTML spec's
- Official HTML 3.2 Reference - From the W3 Consortium - Complete info on HTML Version 3.2
- The WebMasters' Guild - A web site for Webmasters.
WWW Browsers
The two that make up >95% of the browsers out there. You want to make sure your Web page looks good in either one of these.
- Netscape 3.0 - for Unix, Windows, and Mac
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.01 - for Windows and Mac
Popular/Interesting Sites on the World Wide Web
Take a look at these to see how some of the more prevalent sites on the Web are set up.
- Top 100 Web Sites - links to the 100 most popular sites on the internet.
- The Microsoft Network - Check out this customizable web site!
Searching the World Wide Web
Here's a quick-pick list in case you need to find something.
- Yahoo - A searchable index of Web Sites arranged by categories
- AltaVista - 30 million pages found on 275,600 servers, and four million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups. It is accessed over 21 million times per weekday.
- Four 11 - Search for someone on the Internet
- Lycos - Another indexed search engine similar to Yahoo
- HotBot - 54 million indexed Web pages and growing!
Finding and Retrieving Software from the Internet
In case you need to find some software....
- Jumbo - One of the Internet's largest collections of shareware
- TuCows - SaskNet Mirror - Complete source for Internet software for Windows
- McAfee - The best AntiVirus software for DOS/Windows/Internet, etc.
- Niko Mak Computing, Inc. - The makers of WinZip - a premier archive manager for Windows
- The Bandwith Conservation Society - Downloads are nobody's friend
- Kai's Tips and Tricks - free Background textures and tips.
- Web Master's Page - One Stop HTML Shopping
- David Seigel - What works on the web, what doesn't, and why.
- Highfive awards - A great collection of well designed sites.
- Director Web - The resource for director users.
- Apple Computers - We love our Macs
- Browser Watch - All the latest browser stats and new plug-ins.
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