General sites

• Brief History of the Internet

• Google Translate

• Hobbes Internet Timeline

• The Internet Archive: includes the Wayback Machine "surf the web as it was" [very useful for finding valuable discontinued sites]

• The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003: anti spam regulations

• StumbleUpon: an intelligent browsing tool for sharing and discovering great websites

• Tinyurl: reduces large URLs for E-Mailing

• The UK Web Archive is becoming a useful resource

• 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

• European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)

• Finding Data on the Internet

• Help with Windows XP: by Shoban Sen

• Phil Bradley's Webpage: information 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.

• Search Engine Watch

• Web Search for Beginners

• Windows 8.1 by Shoban Sen

• Writing for the Web: a primer for librarians, by Eric H. Schnell

Website Evaluation

• Evaluation Internet Resources: from University of Queensland Library

• Evaluating Web Pages: from University of California Berkeley Library: aimed at staff and students in higher education

• Guide to Evaluating Internet Sources: from the University of the West Of England

• Great Websites for Kids sponsored by the American Library Association: a good site for parents, teachers and librarians

• Lake Park High School Library. Website evaluation: a useful site aimed at high school pupils

Electronic Journals

• Digital Web Magazine:  for professional web designers, web developers and information architects [unavailable at latest check]

• First Monday

• FreePint: free e-mail newsletter

• The Scout Report: a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet.

Graphics

• 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

• Action Fraud: national fraud and Internet crime reporting centre

• Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre

• Get Safe Online: site is sponsored by government and leading businesses to help guard against Internet threats

• Hoax Slayer: includes Facebook hoaxes

• 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: includes a link checker

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

Site-Helper

The Site Wizard

 

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