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• As of Oct/96 this page was outdated and it's interesting to see where the best links could be found in 1994 and 1995 :)
• After 96 and until 2005 there was the "TOOLBOX" (now also agonizing)
• Now the good News: Check out EduTech wiki (Category: Technologies). This is the place where I now insert my stuff - DKS / Feb 2009

Table of Contents

1. Internet & WWW News
2. How to use the Internet (general)
3. General indexes about the WWW
4. WWW Indexes for WWW providers (somewhat updated)
   • General TOOLS & "how to" Indexes
   • HTML (how to)
   • Forms, Maps and Server-Side scripts
   • WWW Client & Server Software, Various tools

Internet & WWW News

1. WWW conferences
   • iWc sponsored conferences (i.e. the big annual WWW conferences).
2. Newly announced pages, WWW-related Newsgroups
   • Cool site of the Day
   • Newsgroups
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.announce see also: What's New from comp.info.systems.www.announce
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.advocacy
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.images
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.browsers.mac
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.misc
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.mac
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
   • What's New with Mosaic
   • An other News compilation at CMU.
   • CUI W3 Catalog (out of service since April 15)
3. Evolution of the Web, W3 research, stats, discussion, etc
   • Economic FAQ's about the Internet.
   • Growth of the World Wide Web
   • GVU Center NSFnet Statistics NSFnet Backbone Statistics Page by the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, Georgia Tech.
   • Internet Facts (i.e. the Internet Index Page)
   • World Wide Web Research (at the CSIS Dept, Univ. of Limerick, IRL). Has good links to documents on W3 research.
   • WWW Projects on Collaboration (in the Hypernews page)
   • W3C Collaboration Resource Page
   • Digital Libraries position paper by Prentiss Riddle, Rice University. About giving tools to librarians for indexing the Internet.
   • Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project at the MIT AI Lab. Watch out for smart servers on the Net.
4. Publications:
   • Off the Net A cool and styled journal (covers new trends, products and other things)
   • Computer Mediated Communication Magazine - Current Issue.
   • Libé WWW page
   • Chroniques de Cybérie
   • Digital Library Magazine
   • The WorldWideWeb Journal

How to use the Internet (general)

1. Swiss Internet Providers
   • Internet Access Provides in Switzerland (by HEI)
2. General Index Pages
   • A hypertext index to the Internet (by John December), including Beginner's guides. (french version)
   • Net Works. John December's index of his on-line Net Work.
   • CMC Information Sources Information Sources The Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication. John December's ressource guide. (Local Copy - single file version: here (11/94).
   • Internet Basics An index page from GNN, O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator
   • Hypermedia and the Internet (local copy). The original is from ANU Bioinformatics ( Australia)
   • Acronym Server
   • Internet Navigation tools from NASA
   • Internet Resources, News, Mail (FTP to locally stored ascii and PS files)
   • Publicly Accessible Mailing List (by Stephanie da Silva).
3. Introductions to the Internet
   • EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet (was The Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet).
   • Internet Survival Skills (ISS101 - K. Hensarling, Honolulu Community Colledge)
   • Selected Readings in Computer-Mediated Communication, Communication Theory, Computer Networks, and the Internet. (Ascii) Bibliography by John December. A local copy is here.
   • FYIs and RFCs: Request for Comments (RFCs) are (sometimes) short introductory technical texts explaining how protocols work on the Internet, most of them are in the "FYI" subset, e.g.: FYI on "What is the Internet" (Short Ascii text) - See also Internet User's glossary - TCP/IP Tutorial (rfc1180.txt) - FYI New Internet User FAQ.
     FYI & RFC sites: nic.merit.edu/documents/ - ftp://nic.switch.ch/standard.
   • Internet Basics A page provided by GNN
   • How to behave (The Net User Guidelines and Netiquette, short ascii text)
   • LISTSERV User Guide
   • Creating Organizational Links with the Global Interne
   • Hypertext Review
4. Teaching how to use the Internet
   • CMC Course Web Page Example of a course on Computer-Mediated Communication given at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
   • The Internet Hunt (gopher home page)
   • Compass in Cyberspace: Internet Training (John S. Makulowich's courses page)

General Indexes about the WWW

1. Alternative index pages for the World Web
   • The World Wide Web Initiative: The Project (the World Wide Web Consortium page) A lot of documentation, clients, servers, tools, papers, etc.). In principle THE source !
   • Web Information Guide. Good SITE!
   • Web and HTML-related links.
2. Introductions to the World Web
   • World Wide Web Seminar Tim Berners-Lee's lecture notes for your own talk :)
   • World-Wide-Web: A Global Hypercard lecture notes for Mac Users by Henry Rzepa, Imperial College. (see also http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/talks/ directory.
   • (or this ?) World-Wide Web Une introduction a l'utilisation du Web et a la réalisation d'un serveur, par François Dagorn (Univ. Rennes) et Claude Gross (Unité Réseaux, CNRS). - Un bon texte texte en français!
   • Introduction au World-Wide Web par Frédéric Martinent & Olivier Berthier.
   • World Wide Web (by the people who gave us Mosaic).
   • "Entering the World-Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace" by Hughes (EIT).The Guide is intended to be used as a beginner's guide to the World-Wide Web in a "hands-on" sort of way, and offers answers to many basic questions about the Web. Web statistics, software pointers, information on hypertext and hypermedia, and other topics are covered.
   • World Wide Web Primer by Nathan Torkington at Victoria U of Wellington, NZ
   • The People involved in the WorldWideWeb project
   • FAQ fr.comp.infosystems (Systemes d'info en general, francais, en France, etc.)
   • Eine Einführung in das World Wide Web by Gerhard "Rucky" Ruckriegel.

WWW Indexes for WWW providers

General TOOLS and "how to" Indexes

1. The WEB Developer's Virtual Library Best site for my needs (D.S.). Example: try to find something about databases elsewhere.
2. The WWW Help Page. Indexes some of the BEST "how-to" sites and tutorials.
3. Webreference.com. An other top site.
4. Netscape's "Creating Net Sites" Index. Short, but good index.
5. WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation Maintained by SingNet and hosted by OneWorld Information Services
6. HTML Documentation A complete Index (long alphabetical list)

Writing WWW (html) pages

1. HTML manuals (some introductory) Outdated !
   • Introduction to HTML" (Html 2)
   • A guide to HTML and CGI scripts by M.A. Smith. This guide is recent (as of 10/95), good and up to date! It is interactive (yes you can try out things).
   • HTML-Einführung, Hypertext Markup Language, die Sprache des World Wide Web HTML 3, Very good (for those who speak German)
   • NCSA Beginners Guide (local copy, may be old). The original is here.
   • How to Write HTML Files (Good!, also here). Postscript version: Ftp directory
   • Writing html By Brigitte Jellinek, Salzburg Univ (see also more advanced stuff here).
   • A Beginner's Guide to URLs
   • HTML Documentation by Ian Graham (U of Toronto). GOOD HTML Manuel, includes html+ (no HTML 3 / oct 95)
   • Spence's HTML Guide
   • The Html Manuel (HTML 3)from the W3 Organization
2. Tables (updated)
   • Les tableaux dans le Manuel HTML à TECFA
   • The bare bones guide: list of all the tags included in the HTML 3.2 specifications
   • Netscape NCSA, a beginner's Guide to HTML about tables
   • Some tips on the site of Web Developer (to give a good look at your tables)
   • Some examples of tables and their code at Netscape
   • A mini tutorial: chapter 12, Tables
   • On the site of TableMaker, where everything is automatic: you just have to enter your data, then specify some options and a cgi-script gives you the corresponding HTML code (the only small problem is that you'll have to know quite well the HTML code to be able to get a good result)
   • Good tutorial, but quite old
   • HTML 3.2 Reference Specification about tables
   • Advanced HTML: Tables
   • Chapter Two: Tables in the Teach Yourself More Web Publishing with HTML in a Week by Laura Lemay
   • Netscape's Story on tables
   • The HTML3 Table Model W3C Working Draft 3-Oct-95 (the state of discussion oct/95, i.e. history)
3. Quick Reference
   • THE BARE BONES GUIDE TO HTML (Html 3, very GOOD!: "Normal" version * "Table" version * Bare bones home page
   • A list of HTML+ entities (like foreign characters, std icons)
4. The HTML standard Outdated !
   • The HTML index at MIT (ex-CERN) See also: HyperText MarkuHTML @ W3
   • A Quick Review of HTML 3.0
   • The HTML specification at MIT (ex-CERN)
   • HTML+ Specifications at MIT (ex-CERN).
5. Style Guides
   • The Yale Style Guide GOOD and higly recommended !
   • Writing Hypertext Books by Peter Müller
   • HTML Style Guide by J.K. Cohen, UCI Bookstore
   • The MIT (ex-CERN) Style Guide (by Tim Berners-Lee from MIT (ex-CERN))
   • Etiquette for Web administrators (by Tim Berners-Lee from MIT (ex-CERN))
   • Composing Good HTML by James "Eric" Tilton, HTML Guru Wannabee, jtilton@willamette.edu"> Read!
   • Syed's Style Guide (also known as "Candy Style")
   • THE ON-LINE VISUAL LITERACY PROJECT (slow to download, but may be useful)
   • Citations: Electronic References and Scholarly Citations of Internet Sources * Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style (WEAPAS) * MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources.
6. Filters & Generators(*->www->*) Outdated !
   • Tool's Index at MIT (ex-CERN), good!
   • HTML Converters NSCA's excellent Filter index.
   • Oscar's Shell Script Archive
   • perlWWW index
   • Perl server-side scripts by By Brigitte Jellinek, Salzburg Univ. (check the "Minimal Data Base" set, in progress).
   • mailbox2htmlhandles UNIX style mail files.
   • htmltoc Home Page htmltoc is a Perl program to generate a Table of Contents (ToC) for HTML documents.
   • The LaTeX2HTML TranslatorPowerful, e.g. builds hypertext trees and translates formulas in GIF files (needs Latex files ...). There are add-ons for tables: LaTeX HTML3 translator (did not manage to make it work) and ??? (where did I put that)
   • rtftohtml A Filter to Translate RTF to HTML (by Chris Hector at Cray)
   • Frame2htmlFramemaker translator, handles books and figures, creates TOC's. Works well, easy to use, once installed. Only problem: Creates one html file for one fm file (except books). The one below does more.
   • Webmaker2. The most powerful HTML generator on earth (still Beta quality for figures and handling iso chars) - (Webmaker 1.4) Links to locally installed manuels.
   • htmltoc To produce a TOC from HTML files.
   • MHonArc 1.1.0An Internet Mail to html Converter
   • WebifyPostscript to html translator (needs GS 3.3 which is a pig to install)
   • Others: The Hyperlatex package *
7. Tools to write html
   • The Emacs Package "hm--html-menus". This package provides a special html-mode for the XEmacs (formely called lemacs or Lucid Emacs) and the Emacs 19. (by Heiko Münkel). My preferred tool.
   • JHU/APL's WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation. An alternative to the MIT (ex-CERN) pages. Good also (e.g. using mosaic as database client, style guides, etc.).
   • The HotDog Web Editor
   • HotMetal The First "easy" html editor from SoftQuad for Unix (other platforms will be supported). As it come installed, you can't edit your old html files (HotMetal does a subset of html+, e.g. <p> ...</p>).
   • HTML Assistant (Windows) FAQ, was the first for Windows, still popular
   • WEB Wizard for Windows
   • Live Markup WYSIWYG HTML Editor for Windows
   • Environment for Preparing HTML DocumentsASHE (for X/Unix)
   • See also: TheYahoo page. Transparent GIF pluginfor Photoshop.
8. Graphics formats
   • Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Home Page
9. Client specific Information Outdated !
   • Netscape's HTML Extension
   • Netscape IMG tags A page that is to demonstrate partly the way Netscape extended the IMG tag with ALIGN.
10. HTML and Anchor Checkers Outdated !
    • Anchor Checker
    • Weblint Home Page (GET THAT!)
    • htmlchek HTML
11. Other (than HTML) formats Outdated !
    • Acrobat and the Web
    • Adobe Acrobat
    • Icons to download: Icons and Image Collection (good for spicing up WWW pages, also LARGE list of other icon servers) - Icons at www.bsdi.com - Icons at www-ns.rutgers.edu - Wuarchive images search - Images & Icons at white.nosc.mil - Icon Browser at www.di.unipi.it
    • Directory of /pub/asciiart/TTUCS
    • Clipart: Sandra's Clip Art Server
12. Characters and Colors Outdated !
    • Netscape Colours
    • ISO8859-1/HTML stuff
    • ... needs more here
13. Image Maps Outdated !
    • WWW FAQ: clickable image map?
    • Map THIS! Home PageA program for creating maps
    • NCSA Map Tutorial
    • Mapedit A program for creating maps
14. Style sheets
    • a W3C page and another one.
    • Microsoft's Page
    • CSS1 quick reference by Steven Pemberton
    • Braden's page on not-supported features in MSIE
    • The CSS page at the Web Design Group, GOOD !
    • Why style sheets are harmful article by Jukka Korpela.
15. META Tags
    • META Taggin for Search Envines
    • The <Meta> Tag
16. Frames
    • FRAMES: AN INTRODUCTION @ Netscape.
    • THE Netscape Frames Tutorial

Forms & Server-Side scripts & WWW databases

1. Forms & Server Side Scripts Please, also look at the general "Web Providers" Indexes.
   • Fill-Out form Support Tutorial by NCSA (A new one is in preparation)
   • An Instantaneous Introduction to CGI Scripts and HTML Forms GOOD, technical.
   • Dave's CGI Tutorials, GOOD.
2. Server-side scripts Outdated !
   • The Common Gateway Interface
   • Selena's Scripts. A top collection of Public Domain Script, and pointers to other top sites.
   • Oscar's Shell Script Archive mostly written by Oscar Nierstrasz (good!)
   • Perl server-side scripts by By Brigitte Jellinek, Salzburg Univ. (check the "Minimal Data Base" set, in progress).
   • Server-side executable programs (e.g. ISINDEX).
   • libwww-perl: Distribution Information (the classic www perl library)
   • Un-CGI version 1.3 a frontend for processing queries and forms from the Web on UNIX systems.
3. Gateways(some locally used)
   • info2www - The GNU Info Node to HTML Gateway
   • Biblook/bibindex 2.8
4. Virtual Libraries, UR*s and Databases Outdated !
   • UR* and The Names and Addresses of WWW objects A page by TimBL, See URNs (ISBN-like document identifcation numbers) and URIs (indexing "sheets" like the ones used by Ali).
   • Quality & Standards of the Internet Inf. Resources - Home Page (ANU,Australia) ???
5. Various Scripts(see also: Interesting Stuff built on Top of the Web)
   • Gene Devereaux's Home PageAccess Counts and more scripts

WWW Client & Server Software, Various tools

1. Various
   • EIT's Webmaster's Starter Kit
   • Searchable Web Pages Index. See also this from BYU
   • Guide to WWW Robot writing
   • Authorization tutorial (control access to your server)
2. Clients
   • Internet Explorer 4.0 Preview
   • Netscape General Store
   • Netscape Navigator 2.0 / Navigator Gold page
   • THE WWW INFOBASE - Netscape 2.0
   • Welcome to Netscape
   • UdiWWW - HTML3 Browser
   • ... stuff missing here sorry
3. Servers
   • NCSA httpd Overview (and tutorials - main NCSA httpd page - NCSA httpd Overview - Administrating the Server )
   • Common Lisp Hypermedia Server (CL-HTTP) A Common Lisp HTTP server is available from MIT. It is described in John C. Mallery, ``A Common LISP Hypermedia Server,''. Works now on serveral architectures.
4. Specific Server/Client Related Extensions
   • Demonstrations of New Netscape 1.1 Features (e.g. server push)
   • Common Client Interface Protocol Specification
   • HotJava Home Page
   • Hyper-G W3 Entry Point. See also:Hyper-G WWW Gateway. The Austrain alternative to the WWW.
5. Server Statistics Outdated !
   • MK-Stats - Log Analysis Tool
   • Crocker's Census TOOL