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Although we touched lightly on some of the common issues that you'll have to grapple with during the construction of your Web site, you might be feeling the need for a little more detail. Below is a list of links that go into more depth about the subjects that we covered elsewhere....kind of an interactive bibliography. Some of these sites are fairly enormous, so we hope that you'll forgive us for doing a bit of editing here in order to stay with a subject. You'll find that we often direct you to one little corner of a site rather than just dropping you at the front door to fend for yourself. Hopefully you'll find this approach useful. If you know of links that you think might be of interest here, please send them to us. Your input and comments are welcome and will help us build a better site. |
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The Web Price Index section of Advertising Age's NetB2B site will give you an idea of what it costs to build a site. The index is the result of an ongoing national survey of prices charged by professional site developers. |
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| Wired Magazine's Web Monkey is a great resource for anyone who's interested in learning about the Web. The tutorials and articles are timely and to the point.
The HTML Writers Guild Web site contains a complete list of resources for all things HTML. The W3 Organization contains a comprehensive set of tutorials and white papers from the folks who invented the standard. The Guides to HTML page contains another huge list of HTML Resources-from the people at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications . The Web Developer's Virtual Gallery contains a vast repository of information about designing sites. The htt features and all-guide directory of internet resources |
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Graphics |
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| The Graphics section of Yahoo! contains links to dozens of sites filled with info on Web graphics.
Basic Information about Virtual Reality Modeling Language. More than you ever wanted to know about MPEG 1, MPEG 2, and MP3. A full set of links spelling out the details of the QuickTime Specification. Guidelines for creating and using JPEG files. PHOTO>Electronic Imaging is a magazine filled with tips, techinques, articles about graphics, artist showcases, and product reviews. Their web site also contains great on-line tutorials which follow the content of the monthly magazine. An excellent tutorial on Creating Animated GIFs, compliments of Royal Frazier. If you've ever wondered what would happen if two black holes collided, the NCSA Relativity Group has something for you. |
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Plug-Ins and Helpers |
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| The Netscape site contains a comprehensive list of Plug-Ins and helpers for surfing the net and adding versatility to your browser. | ||
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Other Software Resources |
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| The Tucows site contains a good supply of things that you'll need for your PC.
Apple's corporate site is a great source of free software updates and tech support information for your Mac. Shareware.com contains a little bit of everything, and is a good place to find new and unusual programs. TV. Com is a great source for computer and internet news and demo software. |
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The Common Gateway Interface |
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| More info about the Common Gateway Interface from the NCSA.
The Yahoo! library of JAVA FAQs and Resources. Information about JavaScript. The definitive Perl FAQ. The Brigham Young list of UNIX FAQs. The Exploder Control FAQ. Fred McClain, a man who designs ActiveX controls and wrote the ActiveX Exploder, talks about ActiveX and internet safety. The Unix Guru Universe is a great place to learn about all the various flavors of one of the most powerful networking languages ever invented. |
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Security and Encryption |
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| The folks at Yahoo! have devoted an entire section of their popular search engine empire to matters of computer security and encryption. Don't forget to check out the Digicrime site. It's a tongue-in-cheek look at the state of the net, and it's filled with funny and not-so-funny stories about what happens when you don't pay enough attention to security.
This is a link to RSA Data Security, the company that developed a form of public key encryption technology that is now at the heart of the Netscape Commerce Server and much of the other secure transaction software on the net. This list contains a List of FAQs which you may find interesting. The Cryptography FAQ is about halfway down the first screen. |
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Surfing the Hit Parade |
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| If you're going to produce a successful site, you'll need to develop an eye for what works and what doesn't. That means that you're going to have to go out there and slog around for awhile, and we thought maybe we could suggest a few places to start. It seems that almost everyone has a list of favorite links on the Web. Cool links, hot links, top links, bottom links, new links...they're everywhere. Here are a couple of the lists from some of the big boys...
The Cool Links section of Yahoo! will give you the key to an ever-changing list of their favorite sites. Like Yahoo!, the folks at Netscape have their own list of favorites. WebCrawler favorites Lycos lists their choices of the Top 5% of sites on the Web Metroscope has a good collection of reviewed sites cataloged by geographic area. |
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Promotion |
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| I know we haven't talked about this yet, but this is one of the most important steps in helping to assure that your site is successful. Get right over to Virtual Promote and dive right in! Tell the world you're here! They'll tell you everything you need to know and help you get started. If you're still hungry for information, the Webmarket site is a good place to continue your education. | ||
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