Manuals, Guides,
Construction Tools,
How_To, What_Is

Table Of Contents
General Internet Resources	HTML and WWW	Primers Style Guides
Image Maps	Web TOOLS	Forms and Scripts
MORE STUFF!

The links on this page, particularly those of the General category, represent top-level sites each of which offers extensive information and links to other relevant sites. In order to at least try to reduce repetition and overlap, I've presented a brief, and, it is hoped, comprehensive assortment of Internet and Web documentation.

I HAVE loaded up on such things as "Web Style Guides," however; at each of these sites there will be kinds of information and directional links which may not occur at other sites. Also, each user, you, has specific needs and preferences which may be satisfied by one particular site you can bookmark and no other, at least no other you've come across.

Anyway, I believe it's all here, and, if what you're looking for isn't, there are other ways to track it down, starting with the Search Engines Page.

General Internet/WEB Guides and Resources

• What is the Internet, anyway?

• Glossary Of Internet Terms

• Weboepedia
  Online dictionary for computer and internet terms

• Glossary of Computer and Internet Terms

• Glossary --- from Webcom

• BABEL
  A Glossary of Computer Related Abbreviations and Acronyms

• The Translators Home Companion
  Includes glossaries of every description.

  FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions)

  • Usenet/FAQ-List.html
  • FAQ's --- FTP Directory
  • FAQ Site
  • FAQ Finder

• PC Help Online
  Lets you look up technical support numbers and Web site links of various hardware and software outfits.

• Ted's Tech Site

• Ask-A-Tech
  Submit questions and wait for response.

• Library of Congress

• Free Internet Service Providers

• "Internet Week"
  The Networking Newspaper

• Charm Net Learning

• RESOURCES FOR CREATING AN HTML DOCUMENT

• Exploring the Internet

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Index of /Internet/
  • Internet Information & Resources
  • Internet Guides
  • Internet Guides Menu
    Includes: "Zen and the Art of the Internet" and documents by John December.

• John December
  • Welcome to The HTML Station
    • Numeric Code Character Entities
    • ISO-Latin Character Entities
    • ASCII Characters

  • Internet Web Text: Index
  • Internet TOOLS
    • Using Internet Tools Summary

• HTML Materials from W3C

• YAHOO
  "You Always Have Other Options"
  • Computers and Internet:Internet
  • Special Characters

• Special Internet Connections
  Scott Yanoff's searchable directory, everything from nuts to bolts.

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
  A most comprehensive index on everything internet, including a list of providers by state. If it's not here, then maybe it doesn't exist!

• Directory of /pub/net-guides

• O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
  • The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog

• Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet

• Computer and Communications Entry Page

• Center for the Application of Computer Technology: CAIT
  • Information Systems Meta-List

• Information on Copyrights

• Information Sources
  The Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication
  Another comprehensive directory for everything Internet I've come across.

• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC)

• Zen and the Art of the Internet
  Local file listing links to sites containing internet resources each of which includes a link to "Zen and the Art of the Internet."

• Art and the Zen of Web Sites

• Librarians' Index to the Internet

• WEBster--The Cyberspace Surfer

• Special Considerations for Designing Internet Based Instruction

• surfing-the-internet.txt

• Internet Resources Metamap
  • Internet Resources Meta-Index

• Welcome to the InterNIC

• MacMillan
  The leading publisher of computer information.

• The Argus Clearinghouse
  Subject Oriented Internet Resource Guides:
  "The Argus Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides provides a central access point for value-added topical guides which identify, describe, and evaluate Internet-based information resources. Our mission is to facilitate intellectual access to information resources on the Internet. In order to avoid duplication of effort, our focus is intentionally narrow."

• Hamline University Libraries
  • Bush Library
  • Hamline University Law Library

• "iWorld" Resources
  Includes "The List" of Internet Service Providers.
  • Search Engines Onboard

• Internet Starting Points You gotta start somewhere!

• Victoria Free-Net: World-Wide Web/Internet Links

• Enhanced Searches in WAIS --- brief text file
  "These remarks are borrowed from the release notes in the freeWAIS suite of programs. The enhancements cited below are implemented in the WAIS server and should be available to any user of a WAIS client such as waissearch, xwais, lynx, or mosaic."

  Newsgroups

  • comp.mail.misc
  • soc.net.people
  • comp.internet.net-happenings

  The file, "Internet-services Faq," is posted weekly to the newsgroup alt.internet.services on the 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th of each month, and posted twice monthly, on the 5th and 19th, to

  • alt.online.services,
  • news.newuser.questions,
  • news.answers, and
  • alt.answers .

  These newsgroup links operate only if your local browser is configured to connect to a news server that carries these newsgroups.

About E-Mail

• Listserv Home Page

• TILE.NET
  Search Mailing List Database
  • List of Views
    • tile.net

• Electronic Mail

• Computing Support FAQ

• FTP Directory/docs
  • inter-network-mail-guide
    FTP Site; there's also a file called: "finding_addresses." This text-formatted instruction guide was compiled by John Chew. It is a duplicate, almost, of Scott Yanoff's above.

• The Internet Companion:
  "A Beginner's Guide To Global Networking" by Tracy LaQuey Parker

• Internet Guides

• Internet Resource Guides

• Internet Tutorials

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  "Requests For Comments" [RFC]

  Recommended supplemental reading:
  RFC974 STANDARD Mail routing and the Domain System
  RFC1032 STANDARD Domain Administrators Guide
  RFC1034 STANDARD Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities
  RFC1035 STANDARD Domain Names - Implementation Specification

• Internet Engineering Task Force
  Requests for Comments

• RFC -- Editor

• Requests for Comments

• "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet" by Ed Krol
  "This RFC is being distributed to members of the Internet community in order to make available some "hints" which will allow new network participants to understand how the direction of the Internet is set, how to acquire online information and how to be a good Internet neighbor."

• RFC 1462
  "This FYI RFC answers the question, "What is the Internet?" and is produced by the User Services Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Containing a modified chapter from Ed Krol's 1992 book, "The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog," the paper covers the Internet's definition, history, administration, protocols, financing, and current issues such as growth, commercialization, and privatization."

• RFC 1208
  A Glossary of Networking terms

Hypertext Markup Language
and The WWW

• CERN Welcome
  Birthplace of the WWW.

• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  Home Page for the WWW
  • HyperText Markup Language
  • HTML Specification 2.0
  • HTML Specification 3.0
  • HTML Specifications 4.0

• An Overview of the World Wide Web

• The Willcam Group
  - compact index of HTML tags

• Yahoo - A Guide to WWW
  • Computers:World Wide Web

• John December
  It's all here!

• Web Communications: Publishing On The Web

• World Wide Web FAQ

• WebWeavers Page --- from NASA
  WebWeavers page updated and condensed by Gail Felchle. Contains the full gamut of WWW supplies.

• Virtual Computer Library: WWW Information
  • Guides to Specialized Search Engines

• Virtual Library for Web Development

• HTML Writers Guild List of HTML Resources

• Ender Design: Realm Graphics Web Images

• YAHOO!: Background Images

• Off the 'Net

HTML Primers and Style Guides

• HTML Primer
  from NCSA

• Composing Good HTML

• W3.ORG
  • An Overview of Hypertext and IR systems and Applications

  • W3C: WWW
    • Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
    • UR* and The Names and Addresses of WWW objects
    • HyperText Markup Language (HTML):
      Working and Background Materials
    • A Style Guide to Online Hypertext
      by Tim Berners-Lee (founder of the World Wide Web)
      • W3C Search (Public)

    From Daniel Connolly:

    • HTML Commands and SPECS
      This is Dan Connolly's NEW home page. From here you should be able to find just about everything you might want to know about hypertext markup language.
    • HTML Design Notebook
      Courtesy of Daniel Connolly. This page contains the latest on "Tag Extensions."

  • Internationalization/localization: HTML

  [do you get the impression that the folks at W3.ORG have the skinnies on what's happening with the WEB? Huh?]

• YAHOO - HTML

• IETF Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Working Group
  --- by Roy Fielding

• Inter-Language Unification -- ILU ---FTP Site
  "The object interfaces provided by ILU hide implementation distinctions between different languages, between different address spaces, and between operating system types. ILU can be used to build multi-lingual object-oriented libraries ("class libraries") with well-specified language-independent interfaces."

• Kevin Werbach's Home Page
  • Bare Bones Guide to HTML

• Web/HTML Documentation and Developer's Resource
  • Browsers, Viewers and HTML Preparation Resources
    • Introduction to HTML: Table Of Contents
      • Introduction to HTML and URLs
      • Bibliography of HTML Reference Documents

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Information under http://www.lbl.gov/Web/
    The whole shootin' match!

• HTML Spec: Publication History
  --- from Daniel Connolly

• NCSA Mosaic Web Index
  • Tutorials

• Student Developed Web Tools: Frameshop

• Frames
  • Frames -An Introduction

Newsgroups

• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc

These newsgroup links operate only if your local browser is configured to connect to a news server that carries these newsgroups.

Have your Page Tested

• HTML Validation
  This site contains tools and utilities for checking syntax; it does not accept URLs for syntax checking as does the others listed below. The tools syntactically check HTML 2.0 or 3.0 files for a number of possible errors; can do local link cross-reference checking, and generate a rudimentary reference-dependency map. Runs under awk or perl. Includes a number of supplemental utilities for HTML file processing.

• Yahoo! - Computers and Internet:Software:Data Formats:HTML: Validation/Checkers

• Weblint Home
  • HTML Validation Tools

Image Maps

There are just a few links below on this subject. Everything else I came across was either redundant or not as knowledgeable.

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• NCSA Tutorial: Imagemap

• UMAPS
  A replacement for imagemaps.

• index of /boutell/faq/
  There's a lot more here than image map info. Mister Boutell is presently the expert on imagemaps.
  • how do I set up a clickable image map

• Imagemaps Around the World Wide Web
  Contains links to servers from around the world.

• Mapedit
  A premier editing program for creating imagemaps.
  • Boutell.Com Hall Of Fame

WWW TOOLS...

• WWW: Consortium
  A good starting point for anything related to the World Wide Web.

• World Wide Web and HTMLTools
  • WWW Client Software products

• YAHOO - WWW
  • WWW Browsers
  • HTML Editors
  • HTML Editors --- different category

• Directory List by Platform --- FTP

• Browsers, Viewers and HTML Preparation: Tools Home
  • Software for Windows PCs

• HTML Helper Programs

• htmlscript page
  • htmlscript User Documentation

• Internet Serving with OS/2

• WDVL Browsers

• HTML Resources
  "This is a set of pages with pointers to resources related to HTML: creating HTML, validating HTML, and manipulating HTML."

• Using the World Wide Web at the Lab
  Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
  • Macintosh Web Authoring Tools

  Just about any computer or Web development site you go to, you're going to find a tool kit.

Forms and Scripts

• WEBCOM.COM
  • Web Communications Forms' Processor

• JAVA/Perl/CGI

• index of /Perl/info
• Perl -- Matt Kruse
  • Matt Kruse's Perl Scripts

• Doug's Mailto Gateway
• ARCHIEplex Forms Interface --- from NEXOR
  "This ArchiePlex form can locate files on Anonymous FTP sites in the Internet."

Windows Troubleshooting and General Information

• IT Windows Knowledge Base

• Windows98 Home Page

• Microsoft Help and Support

• Winmag
  • Essential Guides to Installing Windows
  • Real World Answers about Virtual Memory

• WinPlanet
  Windows Information and Tutorials

MORE STUFF

• Netscape Communications Home Page
  Download the latest version of Netscape Navigator.
  • Creating Net Sites

• Neosoft Communications

• NCSA Home Page,
  National Center for Supercomputing Applications

• Web Communications Home Page
  • Web Communications -- Publishing on the Web

• Yahoo - Best of the Web

• Stages of Internet Connectivity for School Networking

• Curt's High Speed Modems FAQ

• Index of /config/
  • Chameleon Config
  • FTP Instructions for Sampler

• Elm Electronic Mail for UNIX

• QUEST Home Page
  [Home of "Eudora"] From here you can download the latest version of Eudora (freeware).
  • Free Software from Eudora
  • A Guide to The Eudora Mail Package