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About the Internet Information Center - Foreword
Our goal is, to bring you easy and understandable information around the Internet. This site is no a technical reference quide. Technical aspects
are only discusses, where we think, they are necessary to understand certain tasks. Our intention is to bring you easy guides for using the Internet.
Our visitors are not computer-pros, rather then normal computer users. The consists of five main chapters, which will give you a short
introduction to the Internet and how it works. Then we have guides for the most commonly used services on the Internet. Chapter three brings
you additional information, that is not vital, but quite useful if you know it. In chapter four you will find some pointers to interesting places
if you are new to the net and do not know where to start. The last chapter brings you a glossary of Internet terms, which are encountered when you
use the Internet.
Since the IIC exists, we have experimented with various frame and no-frame designs. The current IIC is the result of one year experience and
visitor feedback. The design is for easy navigation. Each chapter contains an index of its articles. You can jump between chapters without
returning to the main index, though this option is provided. We have assigned a special font to all the documents. If installed, the following fonts will
be used in this order: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica. We have choosen the Verdana font because of its letter width, which is also more readable for
handicapped people than other fonts like Times New Roman. The graphics used within the site, mostly use 16 colors and are all 500 bytes or less
each. Only a handfull of graphics use the 256 color palette. Also 98 % of the graphics are reused on more than one documents; there are only a few
images that are unique to specific pages.
The author of this site has over 2 years of HTML experience and uses the Internet since 1991. During the past years he was able to aquire lots
of experiences, which you find in this site. The author is a student of computer science with emphasis on the Internet, information retrieval and
databases and sometimes works as a trainer for the Internet and gives HTML coding lessons. In December 1995 he first introduced the IIC to the
internet community as an easy understandable guide to the Internet. From 1000 visitors during the first month, the IIC now servers about 10000 visitors
producing more than 115000 hits per month - and still growing.
Here is some background information about the Internet Information Center, like what our contents and design goals are, why we are doing this site
and who is doing this site.
Content goal
Design goals
The author
