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Not wasting money

admin — Sun, 23 May 2010 03:22:34 +0000

As consumers, we make sure that when we buy a product, it is worth every penny! And if we are looking for great deals, the internet is our main shop! From expensive, luxurious fauteuil style chairs, to boxes of dragées mariage chocolate and candies! You can even buy great matériel golf equipment for the man in your house! With products that are great as these, with a price that’s well worth it, you are not wasting your money!

HTML EDITORS FOR CREATING YOUR OWN WEB DOCUMENTS AND PAGES

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:30:27 +0000

Many readers of this site will want not only to read what others have published don the Web, but also to do some Web publishing themselves.
The tool that you use to create hypertext documents for the World Wide Web is called HyperText Markup Language (HTML). If you want to create your own homepage, or render a document in a form readable on the Web, you need to get a good HTML editor and learn how to use it. This involves assigning document tags and working with basic text structures. You may also want to learn how to incorporate images into your HTML documents.
You’ll be glad to hear that HTML is not all that hard to master. One
of the best introductions to HTML is freely available on the Web itself:
Introduction to HTML
http://www.cwru.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html
Another very good alternative is:
HTMLelementary
http://labrocca.com/htmlementaiyl
Before you can learn to use an HTML editor, however, you have to have one available on your platform. Many excellent HTML editors are available on the Web for Macintosh, Windows and UNIX machines. Here are some addresses where you’ll find them available
for download:
ANT HTML (PC Windows a Macintosh versions)
http://telacommunications.com/ant/ Download a demo version of this great macro for effortlessly con-
veiling Microsoft Word documents into HTIvIL.
COFFEECUP HTML EDITOR ++ (PC Windows)
http://www.coffeecup.com/
Download Coffeecup HTML Editor ++ for a 30-day free trial. Cof-
feeCup HTML Editor++ is a full-featured HTML editor that includes
Expresso FTP for uploading and downloading; an image gallery with
quick-linking images; highlighted tags; style sheet help; automatic
image sizing; a line reader; and tips. It comes with 30 background
images, more than 175 animated OlE s, upwards of 140 Web icon
graphics, 60 JavaScript scripts, a frame designer, and an HTML strip-
per. You can work on and test multiple pages at once. Other features
include an internal browser for testing and surfing, an image-pre-
viewing utility, a sound gallery, on-line help, and a step-by-step Web
design guide and references for the latest HTML 4.0 tags.
HOT DOG WEB EDITOR (PC Windows)
http://www.sausage.com/
Download a free 30-day trial version of any one of several fast,
flexible, and friendly versions of the Hot Dog Web Editor for Windows.
HTML GRINDER (Macintosh)
http://www.matterform.com/grinder/
Download a free, fully functional demo copy of HTML Grinder, a
robust HTIVIL editor for the Mac. Decide you don’t like it? Then just let
the software expire and keep its highly useful “Find and Replace Tool”
as a gift from the good folks at MatterForm Media. Note: Macintosh
SEJ3O or better, System 7, 8MB RAIvI (16MB RAM recommended).
Compatible with MacOS 8.
INTERNET LIST KEEPER (PC Windows)
http://www.drweb.com/
Go to “Dr. Web’s” home page to download a free coy of Internet
List Keeper, a very simple, template-based HTML tool for creating
Web pages.
Simple HTML Editor (S H E) version 2.9 (Macintosh)
http://wivw.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morganfsimple.htmi
Simple HTML Editor (S H E) is just that, a simple editor for creat-
ing hypertext markup language (HTML) documents. It is in the form of a HyperCard stack, and therefore, it requires Hypercard or HyperCard Player, as well as a Macintosh. Take a free download of the software and try it on for size.
SITEAID HTML EDITOR (PC Windows)
http://www.siteaid.com
More than just your average HTML editor, SiteAid is a tool for
managing your entire site. From creating HTML, Javascripts and Style
Sheets, to uploading them to your Internet server, SiteAid has you
covered. You are invited to download and test drive this shareware
free of charge.
ULTRAEDIT HTML EDITOR (PC Windows)
http://www.ultraedit.com/
Download the full version of this great shareware HTML editor for
Windows.
UNIX HTML EDITORS
http ://www.xcelco.on.cafr.johnston/htmls.html
Here is a wonderful megalist of dozens of powerful Unix-oriented HTML editors available for downloading through quick-click hyperlinks.

HOW CAN I CONNECT TO THE WEB?

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:27:07 +0000

Times was when only a privileged few could get on the Internet superhighway and drive. That’s not so anymore. These days, there are more and more “on-ramps” for the highway, and tolls on the road are decreasing every day. Today you can speed around the Net and the Web or little more than the price of a subscription to the fruit-of-the-
month club. Your connection options include permanent direct connections, dial-up connections to local hosts, and connection to the Web via a commercial on-line service. * Permanent Direct Connections: Web Nirvana Those of us affiliated with universities, research labs, and corporations—as well as those of us with direct connections often by our cable television suppliers—are usually able to connect to the Internet via the fastest route possible: a TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) network. Whether you are at your home cable modem, a corporate office, a university, or a public library, you are likely to have access to a PC hooked to such a network connection.
Permanent direct connections are clearly the vest and quickest way to travel to and across the Internet, as they allow fast data
throughput capable of dealing swiftly with memory-fat Web graphics. Such high-speed access is vital for many applications related to scienyou tific research and communications (such as video conferencing), which require extremely fast transmissions of large amounts of data.
* Local Host Dial-Up Connections: The Next Best Thing The next most attractive alternative is to use your computer’s modem to dial-up to the network of an Internet service provider. These service providers are usually called local hosts. A local host computer runs with applications software that uses the TCP/IP protocols to com‘the municate with other Internet. (Note that for web surfing a minimum modem speed of 28.8 bps [bits per secondJ is highly recommended.)
To communicate with the Web via your local host, you must use software that enables your computer to use the TCP/IP language to communicate over local telephone lines. Here you have two choices. The first is SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) and the second and newer option is PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol). These low-cost alternatives provide hill peer access to the Internet. The difference between the two is fundamental. SLIP does not provide error correction or data compression, but it still works well for home and small-business applications. PPP was specifically developed to recti’ SLIP’s error correcting weakness. PPP checks incoming data and asks the sending computer to retransmit when it detects an error in an IP packet. Thus, of the two protocols, I recommend PPP. It’ll save you time and hassles. There are hundreds of dial-up Internet providers across the counny, many of them regional, and a number of them national.

THE RAISON D’ETRE FOR THIS SITE

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:24:23 +0000

Today there are literally millions of documents on the Web Every subject known to humankind can be found here. But finding what you want amid this mountain of data can be more than time-consuming.
Even if you use one of the popular search-engines on the Web to isolate all Web sites containing information on a given topic such as comets (or thermodynamics, or lipids, or polychlorinated biphenyl’s, etc.), you will still have to spend a fair amount of time browsing through the many documents called up by your search in order to see
which ones provide the richest information base.
One comet page, for example, may contain nothing more than a collection of 200-year-old observations of Comet Halley with no accompanying links, while another page will provide a cornucopia of information and resources on all aspects of the study of comets from ancient times right up to the present day, with a long list of related links, including an appropriate description of (and a link to) the limited Comet Halley page for those who want it. Which of these two documents is more useful? Which would you prefer to spent time on? The latter document is the one you will find discussed in this book. In writing this book I have endeavored to provide a guide to the most useful and informationally rich resources for scientists on the Web. I have scoured the various Web information options in a range of scientific disciplines and cut out the shallow and trivial in favor of
the deep and meaningful. Thus, this book comprises a directory to the most ambitious science pages on the web, not only rich in links that leverage to the utmost the possibilities of hypertext but also rich in layers of vital, current data as represented in text, graphics, and audio.