Useful Websites

These are all sites I've found useful or interesting in one way or another. They were current as of January, 2001, but you know how that is!

Please contact me if you have suggestions, corrections etc., at margiemetz@hotmail.com

Contents

Web Stuff

General

Organizations (includes World Wide Web Consortium and Tim Berners-Lee)

Usability Issues

Web Publishing Guides

Backgrounds and Graphics

Personal Home Pages

Browsers

HTML and Editors

CGI/PERL

JavaScripts

Search Engines

Microsoft
Other Technical Support/Help
Viruses and Hoaxes

Web Stuff

General

http://devedge.netscape.com Netscape guide to HTML tags
http: www.fontsanon.com/ for Fonts Lovers
http://www.internic.net/ List of Internet Service Providers
http://www.webreference.com/
http://www.go2net.com/useless/. Useless Web Pages
http://www.internetworld.com/
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ The name says it all!
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/davebarry/ Dave Barry's site
http://www.botw.org/ Best of the Web Awards
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,903470,00.asp PC Magazine' s top 100 web sites
http://deadlock.com/promote/ Promoting your web site
http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatags.html Metatag tutorial
http://www.hwg.org/resources HTML Guild Web resources
http://websitegarage.netscape.com/ Register your Web site
http://forum.onecenter.com/ Information on creating a discussion group online
http://websitegarage.netscape.com/experts/ Netscape's Web site garage
http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/elec.html Netiquette
http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/ ZDNet's Web Developer Site
http://webbusiness.cio.com From the publishers of CIO Magazine: an e-magazine for Web business professionals
http://idm.internet.com Intranet Design Magazine
http://www.killersites.com David Siegel's Creating Killer Web Sites
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey This site has technical articles, tutorials, and opinion pieces...and doesn't take itself too seriously. You can also subscribe to Elbow Grease, the Webmonkey e-newsletter that alerts you to upcoming articles.
www.JoeExpert.com From coffeeCup: "We surfed to the ends of the Net gathering over 20,000 pages about HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Java, CGI, Free Images, and more. We also have Forums for every Web Design category."
http://wdvl.internet.com/Vlib/ The Virtual Library of Web Development

Organizations (includes World Wide Web Consortium and Tim Berners-Lee)

http://www.webguild.org/ Silicon Valley Web Guild. Free, monthly meetings; very helpful

http://www.hwg.org/ The HTML Writer's Guild

http://www.w3.org/ The World Wide Web Consortium

http://www.inria.fr Institute National de Recherche en Informatique en Automatique. In English, http://www.inria.fr/welcome-eng.html The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control

http://cra.org Computing Research Association

http://www.bcs.org.uk/ The British Computer Society

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Usability Issues

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9706b.html Jakob Neilsen's Top 10 Mistakes of Web Management

http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/alertbox/20001112.html Jakob Neilsen: Drop-Down Menus: Use Sparingly

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9707a.html . Jakob Neilsen: Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000430.html Jakob Neilsen: Finally Progress in Internet Client Design

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000416.html Jakob Neilsen: Reset and Cancel Buttons

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000402.html Jakob Neilsen: The Mud-Throwing Theory of Usability

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html Jakob Neilsen: Why You Only Need to Test With 5 Users

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000305.html Jakob Neilsen: Profit Maximization vs. User Loyalty

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000220.html Jakob Neilsen: Does the Internet Make Us Lonely?

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000206.html Jakob Neilsen: Novice vs. Expert Users

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000123.html Jakob Neilsen: Saying No: How to Handle Missing Features

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000109.html Jakob Neilsen: Is Navigation Useful?

http://www.useit.com/alertbox Other Jakob Neilsen articles

http://world.std.com/~uieweb User Interface Engineering site. Jared Spool' s Organization

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Web Publishing Guides

http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html Yale's Style Guide

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Backgrounds and Graphics

Julianne's Background Textures:

http://www.sfsu.edu/~jtolson/textures/textures.htm

The Texture chef: http://geekbooks.com/textures/thetexturechef.htm

www.artchive.com Great works of art

http://creative.gettyimages.com/photodisc/ Business related drawings and clips

www.photostogo.com Photos

http://www.webbyawards.com/ More on the WEbby Awards; http://www.webbyawards.com/main/submit/index.html Register your site for the Webby awards

http://www.aestheticweb.com Web design company offers free information

http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-png-960221.html WWW consortium's recommendation of PNG formats

http://www.graphicsring.com

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Personal Home Pages

http://geocities.yahoo.com/home . Free web page

http://www.freehomepage.com/ Free Web hosting for FrontPage websites... your domain

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Browsers

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp Microsoft Internet Explorer

http://www.netscape.com . Netscape Navigator/Communicator

http://www.cnet.com/software/ CNet's Review of Netscape 6.0

http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3227883-8-7614087-1.html more on browser wars

h ttp://clinton.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/10/netscape.6.review.idg/index.html . CNN Review: Improved Netscape 6 still needs stability

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Activity.html . Amaya. W3C's approved browser. Download and info

http://www.statmarket.com/ http://www.atfreeweb.com/ Statistics on use of browsers and operating systems

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HTML and Editors

http://slackerhtml.tripod.com/html/ie4vsns.html Slacker's Guide to HTML

http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/ (Dr. HTML)

http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/ This lets you download free and very user-friendly HTML editor. Windows only

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CGI/PERL

http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html PERL Information

http://www.bignosebird.com/ Web creatioon resources

http://www.best-of-web.com/computer/cgi_scripts_2.shtml Best of Web.

http://www.icthus.net/CGI-City/

http://www.cc.ukans.edu/~acs/docs/other/forms-intro.shtml

http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/ Matt's Script Archive

http://www.scriptarchive.com/ Matt's Script Archive

http://www.cgi-resources.com Links to scripts, documentation, etc.

http://www.awsd.com/scripts Darryl Burgdorf's site; well-documented and easy to implement.

http://www.cgi-world.com/ . CGI World

www.perl.com huge site of PERL resources

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlfaq.html FAQ about PERL

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JavaScripts

http://javascript.internet.com Has hundreds of Javascripts available. You can copy and paste them into the HTML code on your Intranet site, without a whole lot of effort.

http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/JavaScript/ Authoring JavaScript on Web Developer's Virtual Library

www.chalcedony.com/javascript The Joy of JavaScript

http://www.scsite.com/js/ Shelley Cashman JavaScript class and files

http://www.topfloor.com/javascript/ Official Netscape Javascript 1.2 Book

http://www.essex1.com/people/timothy/index.html Timothy's Home Page

http://www.pages.org/javascript/index.html Java Script Examples

http://www.websorcerer.com/playgrnd.html WebSorcerer - JavaScript Playground

http://javascript.internet.com/ Resources

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/2554/examples.html Beginner's Guide to JavaScript

http://x.webring.com/hub?ring=javascriptring Index of The JavaScript WebRing

http://www.ziplink.net/~lwalker/javascript.html JavaScript Pages

http://devedge.netscape.com/central/javascript/ Documentation: JavaScript

http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-7264.html BUILDER.COM - Web Programming - Spotlight on Javascript!

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/javascript/?tw=javascript Webmonkey: javascript collection

http://www.wsabstract.com/ Website Abstract JavaScript Kit

http://www.wsabstract.com/ Focus on JavaScript - Welcome from The Mining Co.

http://www.webwinder.com/wwhtmbin/javacalc.html Free Award Winning JavaScript Calculators: financial, auto, algebra, health, time, and more!

http://www.jsworld.com/ JavaScript world

Search Engines

http://www.copernic.com Download software that uses all the search engines. Free

http://searchenginewatch.com/ Everything you want to know about Search Engines

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Microsoft

www.microsoft.com Microsoft's Home Page. Can be useful

http://www.microsoft.com/security Microsoft and security issues

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Other Technical Support/Help

www.wopr.com This is Woody's Office Watch, a wonderful site devoted to overseeing problems in MS Office software. The authors have their own agenda, of course, which is to keep Microsoft on their toes. (They also wrote the humorous "Office Annoyances" series of books and maintain Woody's Office PoweR Pack (WOPR), Word 97 Annoyances etc. books, Woody's Office Watch (WOW), Woody's Windows's Watch (WWW), Woody's Access Watch (WAW)

http://www.oreilly.com/ This is the O'Reilly site. O'Reilly is a publisher of technical books, including The "Office Annoyances" series of books

TipWorld: http://www.totallyfreestuff.com/index.asp?Level1=Webmaster+Stuff" Sign up for a variety of free daily tips to be sent to you

http://www.pcworld.com Technology information from PC World

http://www.idg.net IDG books ("dummies" etc.) information

Ziff-Davis publications: http://www.zdjournals.com

Free tips about all kinds of software (and not so free..) http://www.elementkjournals.com/

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Viruses and Hoaxes

http://www.vmyths.com/ This is a terrific site to check on viruses and hoaxes

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ Symanec's virus pages

http://www.antivirus.com Trend Micro

http://www.nai.com Network Associates/McAfee

http://www.drsolomon.com/home/home.cfm Dr. Solomon

http://www.snopes.com The San Fernando Valley Folklore Society's Urban Legends Reference Pages

http://www.hoaxkill.com Web site dedicated to the debunking of various hoaxes, mostly Urban Legends

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