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| Internet | |
| The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking - Tracy LaQuey | |
| Internet Terminology - Virginia Montecino | |
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| Text-based e-mail program | |
| PINE Information Center, University of Washington | |
| The IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) Connection - a public service of the Univtersity of Washington | |
| Cut and Paste Text to E-mail and in other other windows-type environments | |
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| Listservs / Newsgroups / Online discussion forums | |
| Blogging Resources - Virginia Montecino | |
| CyberFiber Newsgroups - directory to USENET and alt. Newsgroups | |
| Deja.com - index of Internet discussion sites | |
| Forum One - Forum Finder (See online community index) | |
| Google Groups (formerly Deja) | |
| Google Groups Help - basics, FAQs, glossary | |
| Internet FAQ Archives | |
| McFind - 14 search types | |
| news.newusers.questions - information for new users of newsgroups - http://www.geocities.com | |
| TILE.NET/LISTS - list search by name, description, domain, favorite topic | |
| Topica - "thousands of newsletters and discussions" | |
| The Well - "a cluster of electronic villages on the Internet, inhabited by people from from all over the world." | |
| Yahoo Groups - includes a directory of groups categorized by interest areas | |
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| Web
Publishing
Basics |
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| Guidelines for Web Pages - Protections/Precautions - Virginia Montecino | |
| HTML TAGS - Virginia Montecino | |
| Web Page Creation using UNIX - set up directory and HTML instructions - Virginia Montecino | |
| Web Page Creation using Netscape Composer - links - Virginia Montecino | |
| Web Page Creation - Style Considerations- Virginia Montecino | |
| Web Design Principles - Virginia Montecino | |
| What is hypertext? - Virginia Montecino | |
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Web page analysis/accessibility |
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| Accessibility on the Internet - links to help create Web pages for access by the Disabled - Leo Valdes | |
| A
Beginner's Guide to HTML - NCSA, a unit of the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
Copyright 1997 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois |
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| Bobby - a web-based tool that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities | |
| Making Web Pages More Accessible - Microsoft | |
| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - W3C | |
| WebAIM - The Web Accessibility How-to Site | |
| WebAIM - Section 508 Web Accessibility Checklist | |
| Web Pages that Suck.com - "Where you learn good Web design by looking at bad Web design" | |
| Web Usability - Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan 1999 | |
| Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide | |
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CSS - Cascading Style sheets |
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| Cascading Style Sheet authoring tools - WC3 - set margins, indents, white space .... clear up problems caused by different browsers. | |
| Cascading Style Sheets - Short Guide - WC3 | |
| CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Pointers Group | |
| CSS Styling with Style Sheets - Netscape Webbuilding | |
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Frames |
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| Frames - an introduction - WC3 World Wide Web Consortium | |
| Frames - Netscape | |
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More HTML / XML Guides |
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| The Barebones Guide to HTML- Kevin Werbach | |
| Color Codes - Web Monkey, Lycos |
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| Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts | |
| Edit-Work.com - "help [Web] editors make their site's content work as effectively as possible, whether the site is thousands of pages or a dozen." | |
| Extensible Markup Language (XML) - W3C | |
| FREE Web space page - top 25, with brief descriptions | |
| HTML Goodies - tutorials, images, backgrounds scripts,.... | |
| HTML , JAVA, CGI, Perl + other resources - Willcam Group Ltd. | |
| HTML TAG Library - ZDnet | |
| HTML Writers Guild | |
| HyperText Markup Language Home Page - W3C - World Wide Web Consortium | |
| INTERNET-HELP.com - Web publishing resources | |
| More Advanced Features of HTML - Dave Raggett, W3C | |
| Net Developer - Ziff Davis | |
| NCSA (at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML (extensive) | |
| Office 2000 HTML Filter (remove Office-specific markup tags embedded in Office 2000 documents saved in Hypertext Markup Language) | |
| Shockwave / Flash resources for Web sites | |
| WEB alley - web publishing made easy | |
| Web Authoring Tools - PC Magazine Online | |
| Web Monkey - The Web Developer's Resource - extensive list of resources | |
| Web Pages that Suck.com - "Where you learn good Web design by looking at bad Web design" | |
| XML and the Second Generation Web - Bosak and Bray (Scientific American) | |
| XML Tutorial - W3Schools.com | |
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| Java
Applets , CGI Forms, Perl, PHP
[Always check for viruses when downloading files.] |
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| Web Programming | |
| the Joy of JAVAScript -companion Web site for JavaScript for the World Wide Web, Visual Quickstart Guide, 2nd ed. - includes scripts | |
| Matt's Script Archives, Inc. | |
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CGI |
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| The CGI Collection - Create scripts to fill in forms, etc. - have to run on a cgi-ready server | |
| The cgi-lib.pl Home Page | |
| The CGI Resource Index | |
| Script Search - bills itself as the World's Largest CGI Library - over 5458CGIs & scripts | |
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JAVA |
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| JAVA by Anfy - "free download, freely usable" applets | |
| Java Script City | |
| JAVAScript.com | |
| JAVAScript Kit | |
| the JAVA Script Source | |
| New-to-Java TM Programming Center - java.sun.com | |
| ScriptSearch .com | |
| Moveable Type | |
| Moveable Type - decentralized, web-based personal publishing system designed to ease maintenance of regularly updated news or journal sites, like weblogs | |
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PERL |
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| Perl.com - the source for perl | |
| Perl Crawler tm - Perl and CGI programming search engine | |
| Perl FAQ - from perldoc.com | |
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PHP - general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML |
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| Flatfile PHP - Flip- only requires a web server that can parse PHP 4.2 or greater. You must also have the ability/rights to change permissions on files and directories | |
| PHPBuilder | |
| PHP.net -downloads, tutorials, online manuals, links | |
| PHP Resource Index | |
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| Images,
Backgrounds for Web pages
[Caution:Too many "bells and whistles" can overwhelm a Web site.] |
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| CoolArchive - make buttons, logos, banners online | |
| FreeFoto.com - free photographs for non-commercial use on the Internet | |
| gettyimages.com - has some royalty free and rights-managed images | |
| Media Builder - banners, buttons, text, background | |
| MM Designs- free animated gif files | |
| Pics4Learning - provides "copyright friendly images for use by students and teachers in an educational setting. The original photographers of each image retain the copyright to these images and have graciously allowed their use in this collection." | |
| Microsoft Design Gallery Live - search tool, photos, bullets, backgrounds, icons.etc. Image Collections on a single theme that you can download all at once. | |
| Science Graphics - free for educational purposes | |
| The Whole Internet Guide to Clip Art - also fonts, backgrounds, script archives, html resources | |
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| Web/Internet Guides | |
| December Communications - guide to using Internet resources | |
| Glossary of Internet Terms - Infinity Web Technologies | |
| The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking - Tracy LaQuey | |
| Internet Guides, Tutorials, and Training Information - Library of Congress | |
| Internet Literacy Web Site - by Pat Sine, U. of Delaware,containing online resources for the Internet Literacy textbook by Fred T. Hofstetter | |
| Internet Terminology, basic - Virginia Montecino | |
| TechEncyclopedia | |
| Web Monkey Guides - "Internet Basics","Use the Web" - HotWired | |
| Web Works - creating and using Web resources a quick reference guide | |
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| Search Engines / Internet Research | |
| Search Engines, Guide to, explanation of Boolean logic - Virginia Montecino | |
| Search Engines, using on the WWW - Virginia Montecino | |
| Searching for discussion forums/lists/newsgroups | |
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| Internet Etiquette | |
| The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette - Arlene Rinaldi | |
| Netiquette -Virginia Shea | |
| File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Telnet | |
| EWAN - a telnet email program that lets you print to your LOCAL PRINTER | |
| Secure Shell FTP and Telnet Client - where to get it and set up instructions |
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| Download WS_FTP for users in education and non-profit settings. | |
| WS FTP is a File Transfer Protocol software program for Windows. It has point and click capabilities (can transfer documents/graphics from your computer to your Internet account and vice versa, such as uploading Web documents to your Web directory.) | |
| WS-FTP set up | non-graphics version - Virginia Montecino | |
| WS-FTP PRO - tutorial (purchase version) | |
| What is ftp? - sponsored by Ipswitch, makers of WSftp | |
| MAC telnet and ftp programs: Nifty Telnet | Fugu | Fetch | |
| PowerPoint | |
| Effective PowerPoint Presentations - Virginia Montecino | |
| Software | |
| Software for communication / telnet / file transfer / graphics / html / multimedia. | |
| Software for distributed education, Web forums / writing / discussion, MOOs, MUDs | |
| UNIX | |
| UNIX Commands- quick list of basic commands - Virginia Montecino | |
| UNIX File Permissions - What are they and how do they work? | |
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| Teaching with Technology | |
| Teaching and learning with technology resources for faculty - Virginia Montecino | |
| MOOs / MUDS / IRC | |
| MOOs / MUDS | |
| Connections - Extensive guidelines and software client to use the MOO to meet as a full class or in small groups, to work on projects, to meet with people from other classes, and so on. Tari Lin Fanderclai | |
| Frankenstein Moo - Ron Broglio and Eric Sonstroem (good intro to MOOing) | |
| Kairos - special issue on teaching and learning w/MOOs, plus basic instructions | |
| Lingua MOO - an Academic Virtual Community | |
| MOO-Cows FAQ - Ken Fox | |
| Moo Home Page - LambdaMOO Resources | |
| Netoric
Project - The goal of the Netoric Project is to bring together geographically
distant
colleagues, a MOO to provide real-time communication, to discuss issues related to computer-assisted writing instruction. |
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| Primary Sources on MOOing- Composition in Cyberspace - Annenberg/CPB - Leslie D. Harris | |
| Software for MOOs / MUDs | |
| Text-Based Virtual Reality - About MUDs and MOOs, connect to notable MOOs, research | |
| Wizard Basics on maintaining your own MOO | |
| IRCs | |
| What is IRC, Where to get the software, and how to use it? | |
| Windows Keyboard Shortcuts | |
| Windows Shortcuts | |
| Windows Expanded Shortcuts | |
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updated Sept 2004 |