Writing HTML Alumni Summa Cum Laude
The amount of activity (ok, number of hits) for our tutorial
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/
is incredible. You can browse the works of our grads by clicking the
"alumni" link at the top of every web page- this runs a program on
our server that picks ten entries at random. Anyone can register
by using the web page form:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/alumni.html
But let's visit some grads...
- The Good Mood Page
- "A Self-Help Page for Depression, Anxiety, Stress and
Other Unhappy Emotional States"
This web greats you with pleasant sunny graphics, a clean
design, and lots of content.
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~janeeyre/goodmood/intro.html
- Dragon
- lots of spiffy graphics on this personal home page
http://www.connecti.com/~daugh/
- T&G
- "This is the homepage of Tulip and Greg. Here you will find
their "his and hers" links, and maybe even a few surprises.
Tulip (my IRC nickname) and Greg have been married for 12
years and fight constantly over who gets to use the better
computer. Despite this ongoing battle, they agree that the
internet is a fun and powerful tool and want to show you some
of what they consider to be the best of the web and a few of
their favorite newsgroups." They have gone beyond the tutorial,
as suggested by the animated GIF and scrolling JavaScript message.
http://www.tgn.net/~jupiter2/
- Saint Andrew's School - Bob Kenyon
- http://WWW.Saint.Andrews.Pvt.K12.FL.US
- Cruisin' With StarText
- "For anyone who wants to learn HTML, this is the site for
you. I wished I'd known about it before I wasted all of my
money on the books that I bought. Thank you for the
wonderful site and the work you put into it." He offers even higher
praise from his web pages!
http://www.startext.net/today/news/opinions/starcol/cruisin.htm
- Come scrivere in HTML
- Glauco Mancini learned so much, he translated the tutorial
into Italian.
http://www.vol.it/italnon/corso_html/index.htm
It's Big! Its BigBook! Sasquatch!
Go now. Bookmark this puppy:
http://www.bigbook.com/
There are pretty web sites, cool web sites, awful web sites,
and occaisionally, one comes along that knocks your socks
off.
Kurt Leinbach has been telling me about BigBook. Yes, it is
another giant (11 million listings!) searchable directory
for businesses such as:
- NYNEX Interactive Yellow Pages
- http://www.niyp.com/
- WhoWhere
- http://www.whowhere.com/
- SwitchBoard
- http://www2.switchboard.com/
But BigBook includes not only the address and phone number
but a map to the location. And not just a plain map, but one
in which you can zoom in and get the name of individual
streets.
For example, I remember a favorite restaurant in Baltimore
called something like "Philadelphia Inn:. I enter this,
click "Search" and zip! I get the address, phone number, and
a map where I can see that it is (still) located on the Old
Philadelphia highway. Zooming in, I see that it is between
the side streets of Baron Place and King Avenue.
Wow!
Thinking I was onto something, I entered the name of a hotel we
stayed at in Ocean City, MD, the "Stowaway". The results came
back indicating an address of 10th Street and Boardwalk (Hmm... I
recall it was on 21st Street! but it may have moved), but even
so, the location X was out in the Bay!
Still.. this is a pretty impressive site. Plus the web site
authors seem to have a quirky sense of humor.
More Map Sites
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
- from the University of Texas at Austin, holds more than
230,000 maps covering every area of the world.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
- ETAK
-
is an innovative company providing high quality digital road
maps and technologically advanced supporting software.
EtakMap databases cover the continental United States and
Hawaii with feature-rich databases that show single streets
ranging from alleys to freeways. These databases also
contain addresses, landmarks, parks and water.
http://www.etak.com/
- Fun With Maps (also from ETAK)
-
http://www.etak.com/Fun-With-Maps.html
- Trailmaster
-
Realtime traffic stats and photos of Phoenix Arizona and its
surrounding areas. You can see live maps and photos from the
cameras mounted along the freeways.
http://www.azfms.com/
- U.S. Gazatteer
- Okay the front page is plain government issue grey screen
and text.
http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
But you type the place name of ANY town (or zipcode) in the
USA and it returns the latest census data. And more. For
example, I like Bisbee, AZ. So I just type in "Bisbee". And
I find out there is also a Bisbee in North Dakota:
* Bisbee, ND (city)
Population (1990): 227
Location: 48.62660 N, 099.37827 W
Zip Code(s):
Browse Tiger Map of area.
Lookup 1990 Census STF1A, STF3A tables.
* Bisbee, AZ (city)
Population (1990): 6288
Location: 31.40456 N, 109.91747 W
Zip Code(s):
Browse Tiger Map of area.
Lookup 1990 Census STF1A, STF3A tables.
So it gives me the 1990 population and latitude/longitude.
The links to "STF1A" tables were not working, but a link to
another site:
http://cedr.lbl.gov/cdrom/lookup
Showed that this data is the very detailed census data,
where you can pull up statistics in about 100 categories!
including among other things the times that people leave for
work. The amount of data is staggering, to say the least.
But the real exicitng part is where you click on the link to
the TIGER map service, which apparently creates on the fly,
a map of showing the location of Bisbee! Four buttons on the
side of the mpa allow you to navigate to the adjacent map
area on all sides.
But wait! There is more! You can zoom in on the mpas to see
even the detail of Bisbee street layouts!
Grab Bag of URLs
Ugh. Not to start another "rating system" but I am putting
* ** *** **** in front of some of these to highlight some of
them.
- **** Shifting Boundaries of Intellectual Property:
Copyright, Intellectual Property, and Publishing on the WWW
- (Thanks to Karen Schalm, GCC)
The following set of links provide information on issues of copyright intellectual property, and simultaneous print-based and digital publishing.
http://www.pitt.edu/~hypertch/copyright.html
- Hot Property
- is a comprehensive WWW resource for intellectual property and copyright law as it applies to electronic media
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/intelprop/
- Virtual Tour of Tokyo
- http://shrine.cyber.ad.jp/~repka/_main.html
- **** Internet Course at Univ of Alberta
- http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/nethowto/
- **** Academic Advising Resources on the Internet
- were originally designed for the National Academic Advising
Association (NACADA) Region 7 pre-conference workshop
entitled "Academic Advising Resources on the Internet" held
in Austin, Texas, this past May. The site is being developed
and maintained as a starting point for academic advisors,
and others in higher education, who are beginning to explore
the Internet.
http://volvo.gslis.utexas.edu/~acadres/
- **** Job Listings in Academia
- job announcements provided
by the human resources departments of over 400 colleges and universities
in the US, Australia, Canada, and the UK.
http://volvo.gslis.utexas.edu/~acadres/jla.html
- Web4Lib
- is a mailing list for World Wide Web based library
managers.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive.html
- Mind Mapping Software
- http://www.inspiration.com/
- Sonic Science
- is dedicated to developing innovative products and
technologies for the post production industry. We offer a
range of outstanding audio-related products, including the
world's most powerful sound retrieval and media management
system, Sonic Search, as well as a variety of high quality
CD audio and CD-ROM sound effect and production music
libraries.
http://www.sonicscience.com/
- *** ZDnet Trailblazer
- explores all the best computing sites, offers site reviews
with links to hot content, and organizes its nearly 500 (and
growing) entries under familiar computer headings. GREAT
STARTING POINTS!
http://www.zdnet.com/zdi/tblazer/
- **** IWAY 500
- Looking for places to go on the Web? Why not start with the best?
What you need is a list of the best sites for each major
category. The I-way 500 is such a list. It ranks the 25 best
sites in each of 20 categories. The I-way 500 differs from most
other best-of lists in that we have ranked the sites based on
seven specific criteria. EVEN BETTER STARTING POINTS!
http://www.cciweb.com/iway500/iway500.html
- **** Blue Web'n
- a library of Internet-based instruction
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
- The Gathering
- the largest college web site, features monthly inter- active
scholarships, academic and career resources, sports, news,
travel, entertainment, debates, internship opportunities,
The Lounge and thousands of college related links.
http://www.takeme.com/
- **** National Registration Center for Study Abroad (NRCSA)
- evaluates Foreign Language Immersion Centers and Universities
around the world, Selects the best programs which extend a
hospitable welcome to international visitors, encourages the
learning of foreign languages and understanding of other
cultures, and Preregisters people of all ages who wish to attend the
better foreign programs.
http://www.nrcsa.com
- Portable Network Graphics Specifications
- http://www.boutell.com/boutell/png/
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