LINKS TO USEFUL INTERNET UTILITY SITES

We have found the following interesting Internet sites, useful:

to prepare our own home page and
while surfing the Net

Time: US Naval Observatory time can be accessed at: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl
Registering Home Pages:
- Site submit-it allows you to register your home pages with over a dozen search engines by simply filling out a single form. See:
  http://www.submit-it.com
  In the case of Yahoo (one of the most popular of search engines), you first search Yahoo and find a suitable location. e.g.
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http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Religion/
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- Goldpages contains:
  - a list of WWW locations to register your home page
  - sites offering suggestions on publishing your WWW site
  - Internet Malls (classified ads for commercial sites)
  - Free Web server space for non commercial sites
  See: http://www.xmission.com/~gastown/goldpages/register.htm
General information about the WWW: The following two incredible sites contain information on preparing home pages.
- Web Masters lists:
  - statistics on the WWW, which browser programs are used;
  - style of WWW home pages
  - list of searchers (search engine) sites, newsgroups, etc
  - lists of sites for icons, information on backgrounds etc
  - places to register your home page
  See http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/masters1.html
- The Web Designer lists:
  - description of HTML;
  - how to make a WWW home page;
  - 10 commandments of HTML
  - HTML editors and conversion programs
  - graphics
  - places to register your home page
  - places to check for proper HTML format
  See http://www.kosone.com/people/nelsonl/nl.htm
Pointers to Pointers(TM): This site lists:
- Interesting news groups and mailing lists
- Places to register your home page
- WWW sites that offer many pointers to other WWW sites which deal with a single issue or area.
  See http://www.homecom.com/global/pointers.html
Doing Searches: SavvySearch takes your search words and scans many search engines. It combines their results for the best WWW sites on the topic you selected. See:
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~dreiling/smartform.html
Confirming URLs: Netmind checks one or more URLs that you register with it to make certain that the home page has not changed or disappeared. It currently does this daily. Very useful site to make certain that all of your links to other home pages continue to be valid. If one of them disappears or changes, you receive a mail message. See:
http://www.netmind.com/URL-minder/URL-minder.html
Obtaining icons: One location for an incredible number of icons, horizontal bars etc to decorate your home page is
http://www.computan.on.ca/~graheme/graphics.html
Another site for hundreds of icons, images etc is
http://www.itec.sfsu.edu/multimedia/multimedia.html
A Index of Mailing Lists: A very complete index of Internet mailing lists is maintained at
http://www.NeoSoft.com/internet/paml/index.html
The Contact Center Network has a comprehensive directory of nonprofit resources, with over 2,500 links to organizations, directories and publications, They are arranged by location as well as topic. See them at:
http://www.contact.org
Leasing a Server: HyperNews lists many providers who offer low cost rents for home pages. Some are fixed fee; others work on commission; a few are free!. See:
http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www/leasing.html
Translating American into Canadian, eh?: Canadianizer can be used to access any WWW site. It "translates" the page from common English into Canadian slang, sometimes with hilarious results. Has absolutely no redeeeming social merit. See:
http://www.io.org/~themaxx/canada/form.cgi

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