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Useful Websites
(Last updated : 1/22/01)

Other Useful Sites

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 margie@netapp.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://builder.cnet.com/Graphics/Design/ . cNet's Elements of Web Design
http://www.webreview.com/97/09/12/usability/index.html Stress test your site
http: www.fontsanon.com/ for Fonts Lovers
www.internetsourcebook.com Internet Publishing's resources
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_ Internet/Software/Internet/Electronic_Mail. Free email from Yahoo
http://thelist.internet.com/ List of Internet Service Providers
http://rs.internic.net/ InterNIC home page: Register your own domain name
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://webreview.com/97/04/25/usability/ User test your web site
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/davebarry/ Dave Barry's site
A list of BAD sites!
http://www.botw.org/ Best of the Web Awards
A list of GOOD sites.
PC Magazine' s top 100 web sites
http://deadlock.com/promote/ Promoting your web site
http://www.pcworld.com/heres_ how/article/0,1400,11870,00.html PC World: articles: Internet stuff
http://home.netscape.com/computing/websiteservices/index.html Netscape services for Web creators; includes Web site garage.
http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatags.html Metatag tutorial
http://www.internetday.com/archives/050699.html Web-building secrets
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

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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
Tim Berners-Lee (World Wide Web Consortium):

Slides from LCS presentation 4/12/99
Transcript from LCS presentation 4/12/99
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ Homepage of Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the Internet

http: http://www.webmaster.org Association of Internet Professionals
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://imsgroup.3com.com/ 3Com's Guide. ID: wpg, password policy4u.
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
www.artville.com Business related drawings and clips
www.photostogo.com Photos
http://www.webbyawards.com/submit/?ref=tipworld1 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.pixelfoundry.com
http://www.graphicsring.com
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Personal Home Pages

http://www.atfreeweb.com/. Free web pages
http://geocities.yahoo.com/home. Free web pages
http://www.freehomepage.com/ Free Web hosting for FrontPage websites... your domain
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Browsers

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.htm. Microsoft Internet Explorer
http://www.netscape.com. Netscape Navigator/Communicator
.microsoft.com/windows/Ie/Info/techdocs/ie401compare.asp Microsoft site: comparison of browsers
http://slackerhtml.tripod.com/browsers.html Slacker's Guide to Browsers
http://www.zdnet.com/products/column/9806/pg980618.html ZDNet article on new releases of Internet Explorer and Netscape
http://cws.internet.com/reviews/netscape-netscape6-8.html ZDNet's Review of Netscape 6.0
http://www.cnet.com/internet/0-3779-8-3607741-1.html?tag=st.int.3773.txt.3779-8-3607741-1. CNet's Review of Netscape 6.0
http://www.netscape.com Netscape Navigator/Communicator
Statistics about browser usage.
http://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://www.adobe.com/prodindex/pagemill/main.html (Adobe GoLive and the now defunct PageMill)
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.cgi-free.com/ CGI information
Yahoo CGI information
http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html PERL Information
http://www.webreview.com/style/index.shtml CGI World
http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/ Matt's Script Archive
http://www.extropia.com Free scripts plus support for a fee.
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://language.perl.com/faq/index.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.
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Search Engines

http://www.copernic.com Download software that uses all the search engines. Free!
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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.ora.com/annoyed This is the O'Reilly site. O'Reilly is a publisher of technical books, including The "Office Annoyances" series of books.
Topica's TipWorld: http://www.topica.com/tipworld "The Internet's #1 Source for Computer Tips, News, and Gossip." 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
http://www.zdu.com

ExcelTips and WordTips: http://www.VitalNews.com

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Viruses and Hoaxes
http://kumite.com/myths This is a terrific site to check on viruses and hoaxes.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/Symanec's virus page
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACVirusDatabase.html U.S. Dept. of Energy, Computer Incident Advisory Capability
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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Questions, comments or suggestions? Please contact me at margie@netapp.com
... or call me at (408) 822-3185