WorldNet
In-Between
WorldNet Online claims to have a resource page listing architects and interior
designers (U.S.? world? they don't say), but even the plain-alpha listing
only gives you the text, not hotlinks or any company names. Nor are there
cities, client listings, or firm size info. When I checked, you could only
find listings by firm name; the index by specialty brought me the dreaded
"404 Not Found" message. The folks who made this are in desperate
need of Web architects and interior designers before they hang out their
shingle.-KW
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Professionals
Online Home Page
This is what I call an "eager-beaver" page. Someone has fallen
in love with the Web, and in this case with NetCruiser, and created a page
geared to small business folks. The only problem is that the links to a
variety of travel, sports, news, job, and career sites are standard and
few in number, and they're built into very mundane, text-heavy pages. The
Jobs page is probably the richest of the bunch, with brief annotations.Pros
Online needs to focus in order to get ahead of the Web fan club and be of
greater use to business types.-KW
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Lawyers
Cooperative Publishing
LCP is one of the oldest legal publishers, and this impressive page testifies
to its expertise. The info here mostly describes the many law texts (state
and federal) LCP sells, and features painstaking tables of contents for
each title. The best reference page is The Legal List (http://www.lcp.com/The-Legal-List/TLL-home.html),
which enumerates a host of Internet-based legal resources you can find.
There's a very helpful list of law-related BBSs, newsgroups, and listservs,
for example. There are also links to info on law schools, corporations,
and non-U.S. resources.-KW
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Designlink Online
Resource for Creative Professions
This site, which includes brief sketches of designers, up to 15 thumbnails
of their digital work, and contact info, charges fees for listings and graphics
files. To date, the San Francisco Bay area dominates listings. How to entice
more diverse listings that attract clients, and how to convince prospects
that it will lead to new jobs for them? This is the challenge Designlink
faces on the Web. If it can be overcome, Designlink's Online Portfolio could
well be a handy place to scout for illustrators, graphic designers, multimedia
and other artists.
-KW
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Chorus
Reviews & Resources for Real World Computing
This is a very helpful page for academics - those folks who need special
software to ease the pain of academic papers, bibliographic programs, computer-assisted
language learning, and the like. Chorus offers book and software reviews
of interest to humanities scholars - especially those specializing in language,
literature, and Biblical studies. There are reviews of relevant books and
software programs, links to humanities sites, and links to other areas for
professionals - like doctors. A nicely organized page that any humanities
grad student or researcher needing software tools for formal papers and
so on will appreciate.-KW
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