WWW & Internet manuals, Demos

This list is *not* exhaustive, please check also General Indexes, the help button on your client, etc. It needs work like all our Index pages, so use with care!

Table of Contents

1. Search the Internet
2. Internet & WWW News
3. How to use the Internet (general)
4. General indexes about the WWW
5. WWW Indexes for WWW providers (somewhat updated)
   • General TOOLS & "how to" Indexes
   • HTML (how to)
   • Forms, Maps and Server-Side scripts
   • WWW Client & Server Software, Various tools
6. Other Internet Tools
7. Why do we need information systems?
8. Interesting Stuff built on Top of the Web

Search the Internet

• The Guide to Searching the Internet How to find what you're looking for, via the World Wide Web. A good Introduction!
• Meta Indexes: W3 Search Engines at CUI University of Geneva * Internet Search(the one sponsored by netscape browsers) * CUSI (from Nexor)
• Various search engines: Lycos * Webcrawler
• Directories: Top of the Web * Yahoo * Welcome - My Virtual Reference Desk * Comprehensive List of Sites(over 20'000 entries)

Internet & WWW News

1. WWW conferences
   • http://www.w3.org/hypertext/Conferences/Overview-WWW.html (contains all of them)
   • Proceedings of the WWW94 conference.
   • 2nd WWW "Mosaic '9" Conference
   • Third International World-Wide Web Conference (Technology, Tools, and Applications April 10-14, 1995, Darmstadt, Germany).
   • Asia-Pacific WWW conference '95 (proceedings are here)
   • WWWWW.html.
   • Workshop on WWW and Collaborative Work. See Proceedings W3C Collab WS
   • Fourth International World Wide Web Conference ``The WEB Revolution'' (December 11-14, 1995, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
   • Fifth International World Wide Web ConferenceMay 6-10, 1996 - Paris, France - (US/W3C mirror(?) page)
   • Congresnet -- Datum ???
2. Newly announced pages, WWW-related Newsgroups
   • Cool site of the Day
   • Newsgroups
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.announce see also: What's New from comp.info.systems.www.announce
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.advocacy
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.images
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.browsers.mac
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.misc
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.mac
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
     • news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
   • What's New with Mosaic
   • An other News compilation at CMU.
   • CUI W3 Catalog (out of service since April 15)
3. Evolution of the Web, W3 research, stats, discussion, etc
   • Economic FAQ's about the Internet.
   • Growth of the World Wide Web
   • GVU Center NSFnet Statistics NSFnet Backbone Statistics Page by the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, Georgia Tech.
   • Internet Facts (i.e. the Internet Index Page)
   • World Wide Web Research (at the CSIS Dept, Univ. of Limerick, IRL). Has good links to documents on W3 research.
   • WWW Projects on Collaboration (in the Hypernews page)
   • W3C Collaboration Resource Page
   • Digital Libraries position paper by Prentiss Riddle, Rice University. About giving tools to librarians for indexing the Internet.
   • Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project at the MIT AI Lab. Watch out for smart servers on the Net.
4. Publications:
   • Off the Net A cool and styled journal (covers new trends, products and other things)
   • Computer Mediated Communication Magazine - Current Issue.
   • Libé WWW page
   • Chroniques de Cybérie
   • Digital Library Magazine

How to use the Internet (general)

1. Swiss Internet Providers
   • Internet Access Provides in Switzerland (by HEI)
2. General Index Pages
   • A hypertext index to the Internet (by John December), including Beginner's guides. (french version)
   • Net Works. John December's index of his on-line Net Work.
   • CMC Information Sources Information Sources The Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication. John December's ressource guide. (Local Copy - single file version: here (11/94).
   • Internet Basics An index page from GNN, O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator
   • Hypermedia and the Internet (local copy). The original is from ANU Bioinformatics ( Australia)
   • Acronym Server
   • Internet Navigation tools from NASA
   • Internet Resources, News, Mail (FTP to locally stored ascii and PS files)
   • Publicly Accessible Mailing List (by Stephanie da Silva).
3. Introductions to the Internet
   • EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet (was The Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet).
   • Internet Survival Skills (ISS101 - K. Hensarling, Honolulu Community Colledge)
   • Selected Readings in Computer-Mediated Communication, Communication Theory, Computer Networks, and the Internet. (Ascii) Bibliography by John December. A local copy is here.
   • FYIs and RFCs: Request for Comments (RFCs) are (sometimes) short introductory technical texts explaining how protocols work on the Internet, most of them are in the "FYI" subset, e.g.: FYI on "What is the Internet" (Short Ascii text) - See also Internet User's glossary - TCP/IP Tutorial (rfc1180.txt) - FYI New Internet User FAQ.
     FYI & RFC sites: nic.merit.edu/documents/ - ftp://nic.switch.ch/standard.
   • Internet Basics A page provided by GNN
   • How to behave (The Net User Guidelines and Netiquette, short ascii text)
   • LISTSERV User Guide
   • Creating Organizational Links with the Global Interne
   • Hypertext Review
4. Teaching how to use the Internet
   • CMC Course Web Page Example of a course on Computer-Mediated Communication given at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
   • The Internet Hunt (gopher home page)
   • Compass in Cyberspace: Internet Training (John S. Makulowich's courses page)

General Indexes about the WWW

1. Alternative index pages for the World Web
   • The World Wide Web Initiative: The Project (the World Wide Web Consortium page) A lot of documentation, clients, servers, tools, papers, etc.). In principle THE source !
   • Web Information Guide. Good SITE!
   • WWW Guides and FAQ's at CUI (low maintenance)
   • WWW: Background Information from NCSA.
   • Subjective Electronic Information Repository. Nikos Drakos' index has very good pointers for WWW providers and a lot of useful other information. (outdated by now, 2/96)
   • JHU/APL's WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation. Not maintained anymore ?
   • Useful Things for HTML Users and Hackers by Chris Hand
2. Introductions to the World Web
   • World Wide Web Seminar Tim Berners-Lee's lecture notes for your own talk :)
   • World-Wide-Web: A Global Hypercard lecture notes for Mac Users by Henry Rzepa, Imperial College. (see also http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/talks/ directory.
   • (or this ?) World-Wide Web Une introduction a l'utilisation du Web et a la réalisation d'un serveur, par François Dagorn (Univ. Rennes) et Claude Gross (Unité Réseaux, CNRS). - Un bon texte texte en français!
   • Introduction au World-Wide Web par Frédéric Martinent & Olivier Berthier.
   • World Wide Web (by the people who gave us Mosaic).
   • "Entering the World-Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace" by Hughes (EIT).The Guide is intended to be used as a beginner's guide to the World-Wide Web in a "hands-on" sort of way, and offers answers to many basic questions about the Web. Web statistics, software pointers, information on hypertext and hypermedia, and other topics are covered.
   • World Wide Web Primer by Nathan Torkington at Victoria U of Wellington, NZ
   • The People involved in the WorldWideWeb project
   • WWW FAQ's:
     • WWW FAQ (Best) by Thomas Boutell - (German Mirror)
     • MIT (ex-CERN) FAQ
     • UCI's Local WWW/Mosaic FAQ
     • Mosaic Mac FAQ
   • FAQ fr.comp.infosystems (Systemes d'info en general, francais, en France, etc.)
   • Eine Einführung in das World Wide Web by Gerhard "Rucky" Ruckriegel.
   • NCSA Mosaic Tutorial
   • Hypertext Setup and Usage (HTML and Xmosaic) at Indiana U., USA.

WWW Indexes for WWW providers

General TOOLS and "how to" Indexes

1. The WEB Developer's Virtual Library (European Mirror). Best site for my needs (D.S.). Example: try to find something about databases elsewhere.
2. The WWW Help Page. Indexes some of the BEST "how-to" sites and tutorials.
3. Webreference.com. An other top site.
4. Tools for WWW providers, the MIT (w3.org) page. (This site has also a list of WWW clients - part of the MIT (ex-CERN) WWW Software products page.)
5. THE WEB DESIGNER A very good resource! (includes most everything) Design Station. A very good resource (PC and Mac oriented)
6. The Art of HTML HTML & Web Development Resources, A very good resource page for WWW information providers (also useful for beginners!).
7. Computers and Internet:Internet:World Wide Web:Beginner's Guides at Yahoo (has good pointers for beginners)
8. WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation Maintained by SingNet and hosted by OneWorld Information Services
9. Falken's Maze (Cyberspace tools and updates) - good and concise summary of software available.
10. Nikos Drakos 'Repository. Many good pointers for WWW providers (and a lot of useful other information).
11. "Web Site...To Go! A commercial offer ?
12. HTML Documentation A complete Index (long alphabetical list)

Writing WWW (html) pages

1. HTML manuals (some introductory)
   • Introduction to HTML" (Html 2)
   • A guide to HTML and CGI scripts by M.A. Smith. This guide is recent (as of 10/95), good and up to date! It is interactive (yes you can try out things).
   • HTML-Einführung, Hypertext Markup Language, die Sprache des World Wide Web HTML 3, Very good (for those who speak German)
   • NCSA Beginners Guide (local copy, may be old). The original is here.
   • Fabrication de pages HTML (fait au CNAM en français)
   • How to Write HTML Files (Good!, also here). Postscript version: Ftp directory
   • Writing html By Brigitte Jellinek, Salzburg Univ (see also more advanced stuff here).
   • A Beginner's Guide to URLs
   • Useful Information on Hypertext and Multimedia Systems (including html) by David Martland, Brunel U., UK.
   • World-Wide Web Une introduction a l'utilisation du Web et a la réalisation d'un serveur, par François Dagorn (Univ. Rennes) et Claude Gross (Unité Réseaux, CNRS).
   • Introduction au World-Wide Web par Frédéric Martinent & Olivier Berthier.
   • HTML Documentation by Ian Graham (U of Toronto). GOOD HTML Manuel, includes html+ (no HTML 3 / oct 95)
   • Spence's HTML Guide
   • HTML Tutorial WWW "learn by doing it" document
   • The Html Manuel (HTML 3)from the W3 Organization
   • USNA CS Department's Beginner's Guide to Creating Web Pages (Netscape 1.1 oriented)
   • Web tips....and Web linksRead this if you want your www page registered.
   • HTML Learning Center
2. Tables
   • Advanced HTML: Tables
   • Chapter Two: Tables in the Teach Yourself More Web Publishing with HTML in a Week by Laura Lemay.
   • Netscape's Story on tables. See also: Netscape 1.1 Tables (watch out for incompatible features!)
   • The HTML3 Table Model W3C Working Draft 3-Oct-95 (the state of discussion oct/95)
3. Quick Reference
   • THE BARE BONES GUIDE TO HTML (Html 3, very GOOD!: "Normal" version * "Table" version * Bare bones home page
   • HTML Quick Reference by Michael Grobe
   • A list of HTML+ entities (like foreign characters, std icons)
4. The HTML standard
   • The HTML index at MIT (ex-CERN) See also: HyperText MarkuHTML @ W3
   • A Quick Review of HTML 3.0
   • The HTML specification at MIT (ex-CERN)
   • HTML+ Specifications at MIT (ex-CERN).
5. Style Guides
   • The Yale Style Guide GOOD and higly recommended !
   • Writing Hypertext Books by Peter Müller
   • HTML Style Guide by J.K. Cohen, UCI Bookstore
   • The MIT (ex-CERN) Style Guide (by Tim Berners-Lee from MIT (ex-CERN))
   • Etiquette for Web administrators (by Tim Berners-Lee from MIT (ex-CERN))
   • Composing Good HTML by James "Eric" Tilton, HTML Guru Wannabee, jtilton@willamette.edu"> Read!
   • Syed's Style Guide (also known as "Candy Style")
   • THE ON-LINE VISUAL LITERACY PROJECT (slow to download, but may be useful)
   • Citations: Electronic References and Scholarly Citations of Internet Sources * Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style (WEAPAS) * MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources.
6. Filters & Generators(*->www->*)
   • Tool's Index at MIT (ex-CERN), good!
   • HTML Converters NSCA's excellent Filter index.
   • Oscar's Shell Script Archive
   • perlWWW index
   • Perl server-side scripts by By Brigitte Jellinek, Salzburg Univ. (check the "Minimal Data Base" set, in progress).
   • mailbox2htmlhandles UNIX style mail files.
   • htmltoc Home Page htmltoc is a Perl program to generate a Table of Contents (ToC) for HTML documents.
   • curl is a tool for automatically generating the links between the HTML pages comprising a World Wide Web (WWW) documentp
7. Filters we use and that work
   • The LaTeX2HTML TranslatorPowerful, e.g. builds hypertext trees and translates formulas in GIF files (needs Latex files ...). There are add-ons for tables: LaTeX HTML3 translator (did not manage to make it work) and ??? (where did I put that)
   • rtftohtml A Filter to Translate RTF to HTML (by Chris Hector at Cray)
   • Frame2htmlFramemaker translator, handles books and figures, creates TOC's. Works well, easy to use, once installed. Only problem: Creates one html file for one fm file (except books). The one below does more.
   • Webmaker2. The most powerful HTML generator on earth (still Beta quality for figures and handling iso chars) - (Webmaker 1.4) Links to locally installed manuels.
   • htmltoc To produce a TOC from HTML files.
   • MHonArc 1.1.0An Internet Mail to html Converter
   • WebifyPostscript to html translator (needs GS 3.3 which is a pig to install)
   • Others: The Hyperlatex package *
8. Tools to write html
   • INDEX:The Web Designer (scroll down, has quite a complete list!)
   • INDEX: HTML Editor ReviewsGood evaluation, Windows oriented
   • INDEX: Tool's Index at MIT (ex-CERN), good!
   • INDEX:Web Development Tools
   • The Emacs Package "hm--html-menus". This package provides a special html-mode for the XEmacs (formely called lemacs or Lucid Emacs) and the Emacs 19. (by Heiko Münkel). My preferred tool.
   • JHU/APL's WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation. An alternative to the MIT (ex-CERN) pages. Good also (e.g. using mosaic as database client, style guides, etc.).
   • The HotDog Web Editor
   • HotMetal The First "easy" html editor from SoftQuad for Unix (other platforms will be supported). As it come installed, you can't edit your old html files (HotMetal does a subset of html+, e.g. <p> ...</p>).
   • HTML Assistant (Windows) FAQ, was the first for Windows, still popular
   • WEB Wizard for Windows
   • Live Markup WYSIWYG HTML Editor for Windows
   • Environment for Preparing HTML DocumentsASHE (for X/Unix)
9. Image Processing
   • The Transparent/Interlaced GIF Resource Page ... for producing cool looking GIFs.
   • The Creative Internet: Transparent GIF Info, see also Transparent Background Images and Understanding Color Indices and Values.
   • See also: TheYahoo page. Transparent GIF pluginfor Photoshop.
10. Client specific Information
    • Netscape's HTML Extension
    • Netscape IMG tags A page that is to demonstrate partly the way Netscape extended the IMG tag with ALIGN.
11. HTML and Anchor Checkers
    • Anchor Checker
    • Weblint Home Page (GET THAT!)
    • htmlchek HTML
12. Other (than HTML) formats
    • Acrobat and the Web
    • Adobe Acrobat
    • Icons to download: Icons and Image Collection (good for spicing up WWW pages, also LARGE list of other icon servers) - Icons at www.bsdi.com - Icons at www-ns.rutgers.edu - Wuarchive images search - Images & Icons at white.nosc.mil - Icon Browser at www.di.unipi.it
    • Directory of /pub/asciiart/TTUCS
    • Clipart: Sandra's Clip Art Server
13. Characters and Colors
    • Netscape Colours
    • ISO8859-1/HTML stuff
    • ... needs more here

Forms, Maps, Server-Side scripts & WWW databases

1. Maps and Maps Tools
   • WWW FAQ: clickable image map?
   • Map THIS! Home PageA program for creating maps
   • NCSA Map Tutorial
   • Mapedit A program for creating maps
2. Forms & Server Side Scripts Please, also look at the general "Web Providers" Indexes.
   • Fill-Out form Support Tutorial by NCSA (A new one is in preparation)
   • An Instantaneous Introduction to CGI Scripts and HTML Forms GOOD, technical.
3. Server-side scripts
   • The Common Gateway Interface
   • Selena's Scripts. A top collection of Public Domain Script, and pointers to other top sites.
   • Oscar's Shell Script Archive mostly written by Oscar Nierstrasz (good!)
   • Perl server-side scripts by By Brigitte Jellinek, Salzburg Univ. (check the "Minimal Data Base" set, in progress).
   • Server-side executable programs (e.g. ISINDEX).
   • libwww-perl: Distribution Information (the classic www perl library)
   • Un-CGI version 1.3 a frontend for processing queries and forms from the Web on UNIX systems.
4. Gateways(some locally used)
   • info2www - The GNU Info Node to HTML Gateway
   • Biblook/bibindex 2.8
5. Virtual Libraries, UR*s and Databases
   • UR* and The Names and Addresses of WWW objects A page by TimBL, See URNs (ISBN-like document identifcation numbers) and URIs (indexing "sheets" like the ones used by Ali).
   • Quality & Standards of the Internet Inf. Resources - Home Page (ANU,Australia) ???
6. Various Scripts(see also: Interesting Stuff built on Top of the Web)
   • Gene Devereaux's Home PageAccess Counts and more scripts

WWW Client & Server Software, Various tools

1. Various
   • EIT's Webmaster's Starter Kit
   • Searchable Web Pages Index. See also this from BYU
   • Guide to WWW Robot writing
   • Authorization tutorial (control access to your server)
2. Clients
   • Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0 Beta (Avoid for political and other reasons!)
   • Netscape General Store
   • Netscape Navigator 2.0 / Navigator Gold page
   • THE WWW INFOBASE - Netscape 2.0
   • Welcome to Netscape
   • UdiWWW - HTML3 Browser
   • ... stuff missing here sorry
3. Servers
   • NCSA httpd Overview (and tutorials - main NCSA httpd page - NCSA httpd Overview - Administrating the Server )
   • Common Lisp Hypermedia Server (CL-HTTP) A Common Lisp HTTP server is available from MIT. It is described in John C. Mallery, ``A Common LISP Hypermedia Server,''. Works now on serveral architectures.
4. Specific Server/Client Related Extensions
   • Demonstrations of New Netscape 1.1 Features (e.g. server push)
   • Common Client Interface Protocol Specification
   • HotJava Home Page
   • Hyper-G W3 Entry Point. See also:Hyper-G WWW Gateway. The Austrain alternative to the WWW.
5. Server Statistics
   • MK-Stats - Log Analysis Tool
   • Crocker's Census TOOL

Other Internet Tools

• The DOS Internet Kit (A collection of PD programs that enable Ethernet or serially-connected PC's to access Internet services (Winodws Mosaic, Gopher, NCSA TElnet, Trumpet Winsock,..).
• freeWAIS-sf(README-sf file)

Why do we need information systems?

• A strategic plan The University of Denver Information Systems Strategic Plan (gopher menu)
• CAUSE (Association for managing and using information technology in higher education) gopher
• CNI (Coalition for Networked Information Gopher)
• Articles saved locally at TECFA
• (US) National Information Infrastructure (CNI Gopher Menu)

Interesting Stuff built on Top of the Web

• The E-Minder Free Reminder-By-Email Service
• The URL-minder: Your Own Personal Web Robot!
• RealAudio Homepage
• Yet Another "HTCYOHP" Home Page
• Bienvenue sur le WWW audio de Radio France
• The BSCW Shared Workspace System
• An Exploration of Dynamic Documents
• CoNote - small group annotation experiment
• Cold Fusion Home Page
• Computer Conferencing
• Creative Internet Solutions
• Discuss->WWW gateway home page
• EcoCyc Form
• How does the technology work?
• Newsgroups available in Oxford
• The Harvest Information Discovery and Access System
• Welcome to Worlds Chat
• WebCalc (A calculator on the Web)
• Tutorial Demo (Written in Perl, source ??)
• Text to Speech Interface - (U. of Twente/NL)
• A HUGE searchable collection of interessting pages (SLOW TO LOAD !)
• NCSA multi-media demo .
• The Cave virtual reality project.
• Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center (Gatech)
• Plot functions (Gnu Plot Interface @ CNAM)