Chris Rippel crippel@ckls.org Central Kansas Library System Great Bend, Kansas Still updating links August 2002
World Wide Web What is the World Wide Web? is a simplified description of how URLs create the Web. How Web pages work explains the construction of Web pages. How the Web works by LearnTheNet. Understanding Web addresses (i.e., URLs) by LearnTheNet. Description of Web services and terminology by: University of Albany Libraries University of California Libraries at Berkeley How Web servers work explains how the comuters that run the Web work. How Internet connections work explains how the devices that connect your personal computer to the Web actually work. History of the Web: #1, #2, #3 Developing Web vision is a description of the common components of Web pages by the author of this page. What is the Deep or Invisible Web? Simplified explanation by the author of this page. More detailed explanations: #1, #2, #3 Web browser software: Links to tutorials about Internet Explorer and Netscape #1, #2, #3 Opera Web browser: Tutorial: #1 How to uninstall Internet Explorer Searching the Web: Basic information Bare Bones 101: 16 lessons on basic searching by Beaufort Library of University of South Carolina Searching the Web is a basic searching tutorial by University of Canterbury Library How search engines work explains how search engines are created. This How search engines work introduces some basic concepts of searching. Terminology provides search-related terms. Basics of Boolean searching: #1, #2, #3 Lists of search tools: #1, #2, #3 Description of three second generation search engines. by University of Albany Libraries Lists of search engines for other countries: #1 Search Strategies: Five step strategy by University of California Libraries at Berkeley Thinks to know before searching by University of California Libraries at Berkeley Tips: #1, #2, #3, #4 Tips for searching the Deep Web: #1 Choosing a search engine: Search engines: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 Metasearch engines: #1 Subject directories: #1 Finding databases in the invisible Web: #1, #2 Technics and Strategy: #1, #2, #3 Evaluation of search engines: Search Engine Watch Search Engine Showdown Web publishing On Web design: "SpiderPro Style Guide: 100 dos and don'ts" at www.spiderpro.com/pr/prstgm001.html "Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design" at www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html "Yale Style Manual" at info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/ Links to other online resources about good Web page design: #1, #2 On Writing Web pages: "HTML (HyperText Markup Language) for the conceptually challenged"at www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/html_tutor.html "How to write Web pages using HTML" at www.gorin.com/class/class.html Writing HTML at www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/lessons.html Links to resources for writing XML (eXtensible Markup Language): #1 Links to resources for writing Javascript-Tutorials: #1 Links to online tools for making web pages: #1 Links to software for writing Web pages: #1, #2 Macromedia software for writing web pages Links to many tutorials about Macromedia software: #1 Dreamweaver 3-Tutorials: #1 Flash 4.0-Tutorials: #1 Director 8-Tutorials: #1, #2 Microsoft software for writing web pages FrontPage Vizact 2000-Tutorials: #1 Sierra's Web Studio software for writing web pages-Tutorials: #1 Links to tutorials for advanced Web publishing: #1 Links to images for web pages: #1 Copyright "Ten myths about copyright" at www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html "Top ten copyright tips" at www.airsafe.com/netuse/legal/cpyright.htm "Copyright on the Internet" at www.fplc.edu/tfield/copynet.htm Putting your Web page on the Web Ask your Internet provider first about putting up your web pages. Links to directory of Web page hosts: #1 Links to places offering free space for Web pages: #1#1 Uploading your Web pages using WS-FTP: www.ftpplanet.com/tutorial/ www.ipswitch.com/support/ws_ftp_le_support.html Guides for evaluating the quality of Web resources by: University of California Libraries at Berkeley. Evaluation experience with answers. Sheridan Libraries at John Hopkins University University of Albany Libraries University of Canterbury Library Guides for citing Web documents in papers by: University of California Libraries at Berkeley University of Binghamton American Psychological Association Library of Congress Miscellaneous information. How to copy and paste from Web pages to Word Pad. How to save a Web graphic on your computer Raising dead links Internet error messages explained: #1, #2, #3 If a link is bad, here is how to get the page anyway. (Works the majority of the time.) Highlight the URL (i.e., Web address) of the desired page in the address box of the Web browser. Click EDIT--> COPY of the Web browser to copy of the URL into the computer's memory. Go to Google at www.google.com Click in Google's search box so you see the blinking line in the search box. Click EDIT->PASTE to paste the URL in Google's search box. Click button called "Google Search." When the next page appears, look for the line that says, "Show Google's cache of ...." Click the underlined "Google's cache." When the next page appears, look below the top five lines. The page you want begins on about line six.
If a link is bad, here is how to get the page anyway. (Works the majority of the time.)
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