making a presence on the 'net
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Sure, nowadays it's potentially easy to get online. You can post all sorts of personal facts online if you want to. get some fancy software, sign up to a mega-ISP like GeoCities or Tripod and they'll even provide you with basic webpage formats to plug your info into. But if you still want to learn about this stuff independently, there are a variety of sources to seek out. This page shall link to some of them that helped me out. 
Step #1: Using the InternetCSS Internet News On-line Learning / http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/course.htm Finding Information on the Internet / http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html How to Use this Web Guide / http://www.earthlink.net/book/howto.html Internet Tutorial / http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html MH Infohwy Resources / http://www.mh-infohwy.rainier-web.com/index.html
glossaryInternet Glossary / Earthlink / http://www.earthlink.net/nethelp/glossary/ Matisse's Glossary of Internet Terms / http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
Step #2: Tailoring access to your own needs
chat sites and servicesCan we talk? Personally, I find online chat sites distracting and disorganized. But they do come in handy when talking with some long lost friends who have moved to the other side of the earth. Much cheaper than the phone, too! ICQ / http://www.icq.com/ AOL Instant Messenger / http://www.newaol.com/aim/netscape/adb00.html Chat on the Web / http://pages.wbs.net/webchat3.so
e-mail servicesDon’t have a direct Internet link for mail of your own? No problem. Try these free e-mail service providers …but watch out for junk mail (spam) HotMail / http://www.hotmail.com/ Juno / http://www.juno.com
filtering (censoring) softwareReally folks, some things you want to censor ~cookies, commercials, gambling sites come to mind~ so here's the resources to do it. Purchase your product carefully, some that sell filtering software have Ideological Agenda they pursue without telling you. Get the shareware version and try it out first Cookie Central / free yourself from the corporate goons snoopers / http://www.cookiecentral.com/ Cyber Patrol / keep the kiddies (and yourself) free from other points of view / http://www.cyberpatrol.com/ InterMute / this one filters out advertisers, or so I’m told / http://www.intermute.com/
Step #3: HTML and other webpage programming infoFor those of you who still want to write your own WEB page on your own Maricopa Center's HTML Tutorial / sure wish I knew about this site before I wrote my own site. Step-by-step and very clear instructions / http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/lessons.html Clear Literacy and Design Guidelines / http://www.torque.net/~schalp/clad/clad.htm HTML (3.2) Tutorials and References / http://www.unibase.com/local/wmtk/htmltutr/index.htm Learning HTML 4.0 / http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40/ HTML for Dummies / a for-pay subscription site but useful nonetheless / http://workshop.dummiesdaily.com/subscribe/subscribe.html
gadgets: counters, color charts, free graphicsThe Graphic Station / The Icon Depot: dots, lines, all sorts of simple graphics dingbats / http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/6603/ Free Web Counter/Tracker from TheCounter.com / http://www.TheCounter.com/ Java: / The Center for Java Software (if you must) / http://home.netscape.com/misc/sniffer/popup_sdp2.html NetMind Minder/ found some really great site? want to know when it's been updated? Send in here with the URL / http://minder.netmind.com/
cleaning up your siteBobby / Learn how readable your site is in various browsers or for people with disabilities / http://www.cast.org/bobby/ GIF Wizard Home Page / A subscriber service, but the trade off is that you can test the graphics files (jpg, gif) for their size and -in return- get som many back each month -for up to a year- that are reduced in size. / http://uswest.gifwizard.com/ META Tag Builder / http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/mk-metas.html TechnAbility Exchange! / Learn how to make your site more accessible to people who are blind/http://www.concentric.net/~Dekker/ Weblint Home Page / Tips to get rid of unnecessary HTML tags you acquired from setting your page as an MSWord document / http://www.weblint.org/
Step #4: Going online with your pageFile Transfer Protocols / getting your page on your server's site WS-FTP / There are other FTP programs you can find. I tried this free (as WS-FTP LS) for a couple of months and it worked fine for me. Download the WS-FTP LS version from http://www.ipswitch.com/ Browsers Mosaic Cool Stuff / If you don't already know this, Mosaic was one of the first graphical browsers in common use ...until Netscape stole their basic ideas packages them and sold them to people / http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/mosaic-w/coolstuff/index.html Opera / Who says there's only Netscape/AOL and Microslug to choose from? Simple, servicable. Takes a little more time to upload images in the shareware version but the look is pretty clean/ http://www.operasftware.com/index.html Registering your Website LinkExchange / Register with six major browsers from here for free / http://www.linkexchange.com and LinkExchange - Submit It! - SubOpt Website Registration Help / Although the host to this site is a commercial provider that does the work of registering sites for corporate clients, they give some useful and free tips on doing this yourself / http://marpleinfo.com/engines.htm
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