INTERNET RESOURCES

Table of Contents - Internet Resources

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Interesting Sites: Browsing Tools; Search Engines; Magazines; Religion; Lake Superior; Government; Maps; Other
HTML: Writing and Standards; Graphics; Writers

Interesting Sites

Browsing Tools

The Whole Ineternet Catalog is produced by GNN or Global Network Navigator.
The Galaxy brouser is produced by Trade Wave Corperation, a software and networking company.
Yahoo is a huge repository of links to sites including a general search of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario.
The Planet Earth homepage is courtsy the The Naval Command, Control & Ocean Surveillance Center (NCCOSC) and is loaded with information and includes a search. Also very useful is their Comprehensive Virtual Library image map.
The City Net is an interesting site packed with information. Find interesting sites in Minnesota, Ontario, Michigan, and Wisconsin. In these pages you will find information such as the home pages for Thunderbay, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and much much more.

Search Engines

Yahoo search.
Galaxy search operated by Trade Wave Corperation.
WebCrawler operated by America Online.
InfoSeek Net Search by the InfoSeek Corperation linked by the Netscape search.
W3 Catalog from CUI (Centre Universitaire d'Informatique) of the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
Planet Earth search from The Naval Command, Control & Ocean Surveillance Center (NCCOSC).
Collected W3 Search Engines from CUI accesses many different search engines. Try this incriedable assortment of searches from a single page including some of those above.

Magazines

The Electronic Newsstand with a huge list of magazines with information ranging from subscription solicitations to full text of articles. Discover Magazine is just an example of many.
Pathfinder online information from Time Warner. Included are Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Life Magazine, People Magazine, and many others.
Ziff-Davis Net gives links into many magazines and newspapers among which are PC Week, PC Magazine, PC Computing. Some of these have the periodical online, some have selected articles, and some have resources and advertising.

Religion

Distinctive Churches from Ron's Homepage is a curious collection of individual congregations arouind the world and other information.
Christian Reformed Church in America.
Try out the Christian Resource List by Simon Damberger with links to almost everything.
SDANet of the Seventh-Day Adventists Church.
United Methodist Church unofficial homepage.
Presbyterian Church homepage.
Catholic Resource Net kept at Carnegie Mellon University.
Greek Orthodox Church homepage
World Council of Churches homepage.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America homepage.
Unofficial Lutheran homepage of Lutheran Resources is maintained by the Lutheran Ministry at Massachucetts Institute of Technology.
Unofficial Episcopal Church homepage maintained by Michael Bushnell at MIT.
Gospel Communications Network is a "gathering" of various ministries and has a has a number of potentially interesting but underdeveloped sites including Gospel Films, the Navigators, Youth for Christ, and Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.
Morning Star Technical Services has a huge listing of religious internet resources called World Christian Resources on the Net.

Lake Superior

Great Lakes weather forcast from Environment Canada.
The Minnesota Historical Society has a nice page on Lake Superior Shipwrecks.
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is a midwestern university computing association supports the Great Lakes Information Network.
US Army Corp of Engineers has technical information on the seaway and a nice Soo Locks page.
The Great Lakes Commission has information on the Great Lakes Circle Tour.

Government

United States

Central Intelligence Agency notable for the World Fact Book with information on every country in the world.
Department of Defense includes the Army, Navy, etc.
US Federal Legislative information on the internet called Thomas, in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, service of the U.S. Congress through its Library of Congress
US Senate home page with a listing of state senators. There is also the US Senate Gopher with information on the senate.
US House of Representatives home page lists representatives of all states, including Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin
The Federal Agencies page provides links in to all the federal agencies.
The Government Printing Office has a home page.
The White House has an interesting home page.
Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce.
FedWorld from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) provids a comprehensive central access point for locating and acquiring government information.
Federal Agencies search. This site will find everything.
Health related government agencies are found on our Health Information page

Minnesota

Northstar, the homepage of the Minnesota Government Information and Services. This will provide links into all parts of Minnesota government.
State of Minnesota Gopher.

Maps

Boundry Water Canoe Area Wildreness US Forest Service Maps.
US Geological Survey homepage.
John R. Borchert Map Library from the University of Minnesota.
University of Texas at Austin state county maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
Space and Oceanography Group of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University has a Color Landform Atlas which will link you to beautiful topographical and county maps of each state.

Other

Webster's Dictionary from Carnegie Mellon University
Thesaurus from, of all things, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Gopher.
WebCalc calculator
Landmark Publishing of Ontanagon, Michigan, is a regional publisher of UP related information. They have an online Weastern UP phone directory.
The Soonet has a homepage for Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
Thunder Bay, Ontario, homepage.
The Alternative Collegiate Computing Association of the New Mexico State University, of all places for for some reason, provides space for the Yooper Home Page.
Brittanica Lives will do a birthday search of any day of the year.
Dealer Net allows you to search all models of cars.
Local Times Around the World courtsy of Planet Earth.
800 Directory from ATT.
Koblas Currency Converter by David Koblas
Minnesota Regional Network
NASA
WinVN newsreader homepage.
US Postal Service homepage supports the ZIP Code Lookup which allows you to find any information you want on zip codes.

HTML

writing and standards

The Web Developer is a service by Alan Richmond in England with all sorts of resources on www and html. Specially useful is the Web Developer's Virtual Library.

Notes from the University of Minnesota Duluth on how to place your own homepage on the UMD Unix computer.

HTML Information from the University of Toronto Instructional and Research Computing Group (HTIRC) provides instruction on the basics of HTML writing.

The Software Development Group of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, or NCSA, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the makers of Mosaic. Their Online Documentation and Tutorials leads you into various interesting pages of Mosaic related information. This includes Mosaic related Tutorials and HTTP Server Documentation.

The W3 World Wide Web Consortium exists to develop common standards for the evolution of the World Wide Web. It is an industry consortium run by the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It creates the standards for HTML documents. They have a good html page

Network Communication Designs, or NCD, is a Japanese site for web design. They have a good html design page.

WWW Style Manual is produced by the Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Mediaof the Yale University School of Medicine. It has lots of well organized information on html design.

Creating Netsites is an excellent resource from Netcom, the makers of the html reader, Netscape, starting with the beginner and ending with the latest advances in html lauguage.

Gareth's Style Guide gives information about good html writing techniques. It is by Gareth Rees a research student at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. Another site of interest by Mr. Rees which advises on how to publicize your internet pages is Publishing on the World Wide Web.

The following pages give information on image maps.

Global Network Navigator has a nice informational page on Clickable immage maps.
The University of Toronto has a good page on ISMAP.
NASA has a good imagemap tutorial.
Mapedit is a shareware program by Thomas Boutell to help map graphics.

Graphics

Images, Icons and Flags from the Planet Earth server. Go right to the Icon Archives for many links.

Graphics from Stanford University which can be downloaded as zip files.

The Icon Gallery maintained by Roy Pearce at the University of Birmingham in England.

Icons from Johns Hopkins University with a bewildering array of buttons and backgrounds and links into North Carolina State University.

Anthony's Icon Library by Anthony Thysson at Griffith University in Australia.

Sandra's Clip Art Server from Yale links you into many sites of clip art to decorate your HTML pages.

writers

HTML Writer is an easy to use freeware html editor which I used to make all these pages. It was written by Kris Nosack, a Graduate Student in Computer Integrated Manufacturing at Brigham Young University. It doesn't have all the latest formatting commands but is very forgiving. It has a nice view feature to view what you have just made in your favorite web brouser.

SoftQuad produces HoTMetaL Version 1.0 which is a freeware editor for the HTML files used on the World Wide Web. It can be downloaded from the ncsa gopher. It converts formatting commands to icons but is limited because new commands are not recognized. HotMetal Pro can be downloaded from the SoftQuad homepage and costs money. I have not tried it but it comes recommended by computer magazines.

NCSA lists various resources on its page Creating HTML Documents. Listed below are the ftp sites of three html editors they provide. This page also gives Microsoft Word associated software products. I have used none of these products.

HTMLed is a shareware html editor for Microsoft Windows 3.1. Its file name is htmed09a.zip.
HyperEdit is another html editor. It's file name is hyperedit.zip.

Internet Assistant is a free add-on software for Microsoft Word allows this popular word processor to function as a html writer. It has some limitations as a web brouser and it doesn't recognize some of the newer tags.

The WebAuthor is a commercial add-on software for Microsoft Word from Quarterdeck. Call 800 354 2834 for information. It is reviewed in PC Magazine June 13, 1995 on page 37,38 (along with Internet Assistant).

Word Perfect Internet Publisher is a free addition to Word Perfect 6.1 from Novell.

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