Resources
Local Computer Resources
Request
Linux Accounts
Request to
be added to class email list
Unix Help
Here are some pages with UNIX help.
The University of Cincinnati -
Good overall on unix. Section on "make".
Purdue - Good
overall Unix
Vanderbilt - vi
editor
Wash. U. -
good vi editor tutorial
FIU - Basic Unix Commands
Rutgers - Basic
Unix
Computer Tutorials at the UofM
UM Virtual2
Internet Links
Internet Engineering Task Force
Internet Society
Internet Infrastructure
Internet
User Surveys
Internet Usage Data
These are links to various spots on the web with original graphics for free use on
personal web sites
Web Art by Rainfrog - She provides
beautiful packages complete with matching bars, backgrounds, icons, and bullets all in
one. She asks only acknowledgement of her work. This web page features her purple design.
Highly recommended.
Fischer West - He provides
beautiful free seamless tile backgrounds that are very colorful and original. Some
patterns may be too busy to have a font show up well, though. Use your own discretion.
Highly recommended.
Infinite Fish - Another set of lovely,
colorful, original seamless backgrounds. Again, use discretion with text colors as some of
these are very bright. Highly recommended.
Disturbing Patterns - This is an
interesting original background archive, but it is not for the faint of heart. Some
potentially offensive material here. Backgrounds range from the unibomber to sheep to
nudes.
Cool Cat Icons - A very
cool collection of cats drawn by the author of the page. Highly Recommended.
Animated Gifs Gallery - A nice collection of
animated gifs, not slow to load like some collections are.
Links to some of the more popular browsers and web pages about them.
Netscape
Internet Explorer
Mosaic
Lynx
Any Browser Campaign - A
campaign for a non browser specific WWW. Highly recommended.
Stands for Common Gateway Interface. Programs for address books, web counters, etc. are
written in CGI.
Information on CGI Scripting - a good
starting point. Highly Recommended.
CGI Manual of Style - An online
book with some useful information.
CGI Tutorial by lpage.com - Some good tutorials
here if you can wade through their self-promotion.
Pages that deal with designing web pages for appearance and functionality
Web Pages That Suck - A really brillant
and funny collection of web pages that have flawed designs. Author Vincent Flander's
theory is that one can learn good design by looking at bad design. Highly Recommended.
The 10 Commandments of HTML
- An excellent set of tips and pointers for designing your web space. OK, not tips and
pointers. Commandments. Highly recommended.
HTML Help by the Web Designers Group - More about
accessiblility and design.
National Center for Accessible Media -
Information about designing web pages that EVERYONE can access.
HTML Tips - help make your
web page accessible to the most people possible.
ALT tag usage -
Information about why it is important to use the ALT tag and how to use it correctly.
Highly Recommended.
Bandwidth Conservation Society -
has a lot of information about designing quick loading pages that look nice. Also has an
archive of images. Highly recommended.
Doctor HTML - A validator which checks
to make sure your HTML is written correctly and that all of your links are active. A good
page should validate often. Highly Recommended.
Web Reference - A wonderfully comprehensive site for
everyone from beginners to professional designers. Highly Recommended.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation - A great place to go
for information about the legalities of the internet, etc. A watchdog group and sponsors
of the popular Blue Ribbon Campaign.
Hyper Text Markup Language -
The specs for different versions of HTML, including 2.0 and the most recent 3.2. Somewhat
techincal, but understanding what you are working with is very important. Highly
Recommended.
HTML for Beginners
- The best guide I've found for the beginner who wants to learn HTML. Highly Recommended.
How do they do that with
HTML? - A tutorial for people with some (not extensive) knowledge of HTML.
HTML Tutorial with some nice features,
such as a searchable index. Recommended.
Table Design Hints -
for making tables look good in non graphical browsers, etc.
Composing Good HTML - Not a guide for
beginners, but excellent. Highly Recommended.
Frames: An Introduction - I'm
not a big fan of frames OR Netscape, but this is about the best document I've seen for
beginners.
Tables in Netscape -
Again, it's Netscape, but again, it's quite useful in showing what can be accomplished
with tables.
Gif Animation on the WWW - A nice
gallery and in depth explanation on animating gifs.
The Logo Shop - Free logos designed for
your personal home page.
World Guestbook Server - If youd like a guestbook on
your home page, lpage.com provides free guestbooks to private home pages.
Web Counter - provides free web counters to
private home pages.
HTML Color Chart - A nice color
chart showing the colors and codes for background, text, and link colors.
JavaSoft - This is the site of the
company that developed the Java programming language.
IBM Java - IBM is devoting a lot of resources to
Java. Find out about it here.
Javology - This is another excellent Java magazine
that contains daily news, interviews, and more.
JavaWorld - This is a very good online Java
magazine from IDG.
Java Report - Another good magazine on Java
JOS - Free operating system based on
Java.
Jazilla - Port on Netscape Mozilla
code to Java. Contribute if you want.
Java Lobby -
Dedicated to spreading the Java message.
Java Developers Journal - Ditto
Java
Developers Connection - Early access, beta, bug reports, and information for the Java
Developer. You have to register.
Sun MicroSystems - The parent company of Java and the
Solaris operationg environment
Cafe Au Lait - This site has a tutorial, an
excellent Java FAQ, book reviews, daily Java news, and more.
JARS - A site for submitting applets for professional
review.
Java News - This is the place to go
and learn what's been happening with java.
The Java Book Pages
- This is a comprehensive Java book page.
Bill Bilow's Web World -
Excellent tutorials on JDBC, RMI, Sockets, CORBA, and more.
Jump Into Java - This site has
search engine interfaces from various Java sites.
Focus on Java - This site includes a weekly
article on Java, as well as some links of various sorts for JUGS, JDKs, Usenet groups,
from all the Java vendors, and more.
Team Java - This site provides and promotes a
central registry for Java consultants, and provides a forum for evaluating and
memorializing works of ingenuity.
Marimba - The company that
developed Castanet(tm) and Bongo(tm).
Gamelan - This site
has a wealth of resources for every Java developer.
Presenting Java - This web contains
information about Java, including examples and source code used in the book, Shareware Shop - This site has a wealth
of shareware.
JADE - This site, the Java Developers Organization,
promotes and protects the interests of Java developers.
Magnastar - A Java consulting company.
JavaUniverse - (formerly known
as JavaZine )Another very good Java magazine.
Java Programming Resources
- Download sites for all known supported platforms, FAQs, tutorials and documentation,
book lists, PostScript reference sheets ("thumbnail" summaries of various
topics), examples, applet and class library collections, security, garbage collection
info, etc.
Find what you need on the web
Yahoo! - my personal favorite for ease of use, but
not as comprehensive as a spider program. Also my favorite "Search by category"
engine.
Metacrawler - Searches
several indices (Yahoo!, Lycos, Excite, etc.) at once in order to give a wider range of
possibile results. My favorite multiple search engine, for those really obscure searches.
Alta Vista - a spider program that searches a
huge index. My favorite "Search by keyword" engine.
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