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World Wide Web News

an irregular gathering of web stuff by...
/ Alan Levine / Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction /

• Community College Home Page
• a quick update on the various web servers within Maricopa
• local internet access providers
• For Web builders...
  • producing "shimmering" GIF image,
  • serving up QuickTime movies
  • more NetScape's special HTML codes
• Sites of Intrigue

	http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cc/

From Phoenix College, Jim Hughes has designed a home page with photos from campus as well as a clickable campus map. Jim Walters has assembled information about Marimuse and their successful work with Longview Elementary School.

The Glendale Web server has a student information system as well as network services archives.

Estrella Mountain's Web server is home of the Internet Tryptiks, guides to Internet information in several academic areas.

The Maricopa District Web now has a page on the Apollo project as well as links to the library systems.

Paradise Valley, South Mountain, and Scottsdale are in the process of building and testing Web servers.

• PrimeNet
• GetNet
• Internet Direct
• Arizona Macintosh Users Group (AMUG)

Here are some URLS from the MCLI Web server that use this effect:

• Home Page (the MCLI logo)
• Director Page
• More Than Four Corners

This effect is part of an option in the GIF file format, called "interlacing". It orginally was incorporated in the days when 1200 baud was a fast modem (!). CompuServe started transmitting graphics so that the rough outline of the image would appear first so that a user would know it was loading, and then fill in with the detail as the remainder of the image was transmitted.

In a non-intertaced GIF image the lines of pixel data of the image is stored linearly from the top to the bottom. When interlaced, the data is written as every eighth scan line, then every fourth between them, and then every remaining line. So when downloading, the image first appears rough and jagged, and as more detailed data arives, the picture appears to sharpen.

For those that maintain Web servers, here is what can use to convert your graphics to interlaced GIF files (thanks to Kurt Leinbach, CGCC for pointing this out). Use one of the shareware programs listed below to open your image file. Select Save from the File menu, and look for a button labeled Options. Click on the option for interlaced and then save the file.

Here are two shareware programs for working with GIF files and their locations on the MCLI Public file server:

Macintosh: GIF Converter

Things For The Macinstosh/ShareWare/GIFConverter237.sea

Windows: WinGIF

Things for the IBM/Software for Windows/wingif14.zip

This is can be done on the Macintosh computer using a QuickTime editing program such as Adobe Premiere, as an option for saving for "non-Macintosh" format. This is typically a step one needs to play QuickTime in Windows. However, it may also be done with one of several QuickTime player applications. One example is a free program called FastPlayer. Here are the easy steps:

1. Launch FastPlayer
2. Select "Open" from the "File" menu and select your QuickTime movie
3. Select "Export Flattened Movie" from the "File" menu
4. Give the new movie a name (for WWW purposes, choose a name that ends with ".mov" or ".qt") and save it

FastPlayer may be found on the MCLI Public file server:

   Things For the Macintosh/Freeware/FastPlayer11.sea
   

To view some QuickTime movies via the Web, see the MCLI QuickTime page.

"These are proposed extensions to the soon to be released HTML 2.0 specification. Netscape Communications will be working with the appropriate standards bodies, including W3O, and the authors of other WWW browsers in an attempt to have these extensions available in all browsers in the near future. All the Netscape Navigator extensions to HTML take the form of additional tags and attributes added to the HTML specification and are specifically designed not to break existing WWW browsers."

The complete list of NetScape HTML enhancements is available from NetScape Communications.

Ordered Lists

   Type          HTML               Examples
------------------------------------------------------
Roman Big   <ol TYPE=I>...</ol>   I.   II.    III.   IV.
Roman Small <ol TYPE=I>...</ol>   i.   ii.    iii.   iv.
Alpha Big   <ol TYPE=A>...</ol>   A.   B.     C.     D.
Alpha Small <ol TYPE=a>...</ol>   a.   b.     b.     d.

     <ol TYPE=A START=4>
     <li>  is for Dog
     <li>  is for Elephant
     <li>  is for Frog
     </ol>

     D.  is for Dog
     E.  is for Elephant
     F.  is for Frog

Special Characters

   ®   Registered Trademark 
   ©  Copyright  

Floating Inline Images

The <IMG> tag contains many enhancemnents best explained from the NetScape documentation.

If you are using some of the NetScape-special HTML tags, be sure to test your pages with other browsers to make sure the page is still readable. The following tips for centering text is claimed to work for all WWW browsers:

If it is a <h#> headler, try

     <h1 align=center>Center me!</h1>

                                  CENTER ME!

    <p align=center>Here is some text to be centered</p>
    Here is some centered text <p align=center> [IMAGE] </p>
    

• WWW-Courseware mailing list is about issues concerning both courseware and the World-Wide Web. This means talk about past, present, or future courseware on the Web, issues related to teaching online. To subscribe, send an email message to:

  	
  	www-courseware-request@eit.com
  

  with the word "subscribe" in the text of the message. Hypertext, threaded archives are also available.

• How is Apple Doing on the Stock Market?

• Multimedia Page

• UIUC Computing Wisdom Workshop What is this information superhighway thing anyway? An introductory overview of resources available on the Internet

• The Face of Venus (FOV) is an interactive document, database and atlas of surface features of the planet Venus.

• Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) was established by Rutgers and Princeton Universities in 1991 to provide a national focus for those involved in creating, disseminating and using electronic texts in the humanities. CETH's mission is to establish a framework for the use of high quality electronic text resources in the humanities. A program of research on the 'uses and users' of these texts is intended to identify areas for further improvement.

• Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library This WWW facility was established 9th Jan. 1995 by the Coombs Computing Unit, Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra to keep track of leading information facilities in the field of Tibetan history, society, culture, politics and religion.

• The India Network The network of the Asian Indian Community, the India Network of mailing lists and gopher and Web sites was established to discuss and provide information about issues related to India facing Indians living abroad. The India Network and Research Foundation was established in 1993 to provide stable network resources and to fund a graduate assistantship to work on network related chores. The 'welcome' file includes detailed information about joining their mailing lists, such as the India News Digest and the list for faculty of Indian origin.

• PowerPC News is a free newsletter published by Internet Publishing

• Native American WEB pages in the U.S.

• The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) is a private, nonprofit organization which nurtures building of community by bridging science and technology with traditional native values. Through its educational programs AISES provides opportunities for American Indians and Alaskan Natives to pursue studies in science, engineering, business and other academic areas. These graduates in technology and business will be able to assist tribal leaders in managing and developing their lands and resources.

• Benjamin Franklin: Collected Works

• Music of the Sixties

• The International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy has recently produced a Guide to Internet Resources in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice.

• Atlanta Reproductive Health Centre Learn more about women's health issues such as infertility and endometriosis. An online book for couples describing infertility treatment is included. A photo gallery illustrates various problems that result in pelvic pain and infertility. Various surgical treatments are shown. Text and graphics explore the latest in high-tech fertility options.

• CAUSE provides information and services to more than 1,200 member colleges and universities and nearly 3,300 individual member representatives who are engaged in some aspect of planning for and/or managing their institutions' information resources--information, technology, and services.

• HTML Grinder is a Macintosh tool for editing HTML files in batch. For example, it can perform search and replace for an entire folder of HTML documents.

• HTML Style Guide is a style guide for HTML authors. "We'll study readability; presentation style; browser independence; effective hyperlinking; designing for interaction; appropriate and effective graphics; aspects of style, structure and navigation. We'll also look at composing good HTML; programming style; catering to indexers; writing for readability; templates and prototypes; use of imagemaps and forms."

• Scott List Another subject organized list of WWW sites; the page is rather lengthly but very extensive

• I-media Center provided by the Global Network Navigator (GNN), discusses most of the issues that affect Internet publishers, including graphic design, audio and video, interactive services, publication design, advertising on the Net, writing HTML, following technology advancements, and so on.

• House of Representatives

• Web Communications is pleased to make available to the public Internet community our Comprehensive Guide to Publishing on the Web

• PRESS RETURN, is America's online, multimedia magazine for middle and high school students. This lively and engaging magazine offers young poets, writers, journalists, photographers and graphic artists the chance to have their work read by a worldwide audience. Materials for PRESS RETURN were created by student members of Scholastic Network, the leading online service for K-12 students and educators. Students submitted their work to a panel of online magazine advisors who made their selections, then passed those pieces on to professional editors and writers at Scholastic, Inc. for comment and review. Each student whose writing was chosen for publication was assigned a Scholastic editor with whom to collaborate. The revised pieces were published in the magazine.

• CGI Programmer's FAQ

• Apple's Virtual Campus links people with shared resources, anywhere, anytime. It empowers the student, the professor, and the administrator, while creating new communities for interactive learning and collaboration. The Virtual Campus transcends the barriers of space, time, and form. It integrates the Apple Macintosh computer as the foundation technology in support of every aspect of the academic mission. It offers a comprehensive array of information technologies that speak directly to the goals of higher education.

• VolcanoWorld is a brand new web site for all kinds of information about volcanoes. VolcanoWorld is funded by NASA specifically to provide information about volcanoes to school kids and to visitors at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Mt. St. Helens National Monument. We have reports and pictures of the latest eruptions, photos of many other volcanoes, a devloping virtual field trip to Kilauea volcano, an Ask the Volcanologist section, lesson plans, and even a volcano mall.