General sites

• Alta Vista Translation Service: Web Page Translation Service
• Brief History of the Internet
• Hobbes Internet Timeline
• The Internet Archive: includes the Wayback Machine "surf the web as it was" [very useful for finding valuable discontinued sites]
• Netlingo: online internet dictionary
• The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003: anti spam regulations
• Stay Safe Online
• StumbleUpon: an intelligent browsing tool for sharing and discovering great websites
• Tinyurl: reduces large URLs for E-Mailing
• Watis com.: a guide to computer and Internet jargon
• Whois-Search.com - Searching over 40 domain extensions

Courses and Instruction

• ABCs of Computing
• Bare Bones 101: A Very Basic Web Search Tutorial
• Becoming Webwise (BBC)
• European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)
• Finding Data on the Internet
• Help with Windows XP: by Shoban Sen
• HTML Code Tutorial
• In:Form: Napier Library's Online Information Skills resource
• Notepad UK
• QUICK: The Quality Information ChecKlist: guide to checking Internet information sources: aimed at children but useful for all
• Phil Bradley's Webpage: nformation on search engines, searching the internet, keeping up to date on internet events, free articles on internet searching and web page and web site design.
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, By Charles W. Bailey, Jr.: selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources which are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. [temporarily unavailable]
• Search Engine Watch
• TONIC: The Online Interactive Course from Netskills
• Web Search for Beginners
• Webwise: BBC
• Writing for the Web: a primer for librarians, by Eric H. Schnell

Electronic Journals

• Ariadne: A Web and print magazine of Internet issues for librarians and information specialists
• Digital Web Magazine:  for professional web designers, web developers and information architects
• First Monday
• FreePint: free e-mail newsletter
• The Scout Report: a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet.

Graphics

• CIX Resources: backgrounds
• CIX Resources: icons
• Clipart Warehouse
• Free Images: free stock photos
• HVS GIFCruncher--GIF Compression Tool
• Page Tutor

Mailing lists

• JISC: the UK's major electronic mailing list service for research in Higher Education

Internet Nasties: Viruses, Spam and Hoaxes

• Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
• Get Safe Online: site is sponsored by government and leading businesses to help guard against Internet threats
• Hoax Kill: hoax e-mails
• Identifying hoaxes: E-Mail nasties: compiled by Phil Bradley: virus, hoaxes, spam, chain letters etc.
• Internet Watch Foundation: for reporting illegal Internet Content (UK)
• McAfee Security: virus information
• PC Hell: tips including removal of Internet nasties
• Stop I.D. Fraud
• Symantec: virus advice
• Virtual Global Taskforce: website to help fight online child abuse
• Virus Encyclopedia
• Virus Hoaxes

WWW Editing

Free Webpage Analysis tools

W3C HTML Validation Service

Other Tools

Dave's Site

The Free Site

HTML Goodies

Learn good Web editing from bad examples

Link Popularity Check offers instant, online reports of a site's link popularity rating in 5 top search engines, including Google, AltaVista, MSN, AllTheWeb, and Lycos - FREE!

Link Popularity: see who is linked to your website

Meta Tags: from Search Engine Watch

Site-Helper

The Site Wizard

Really Big: links to tools, information and resources

 

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