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TAGS: Cyber Life, Cyber Tech, TECH
Links that lead to off-site pages about web and Internet technologies and cyber life.
Blogs
- BloggerHeads.com. By Time Ireland. He also made the Universal Church of the Interactive Network, which is goofy but informative as well.
- HyperOrg.com/Blogger/. "JOHO (Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization)". By David Weinberger. Good at massaging the Web.
- Jeremy Zawodny's Blog. "Linux, Perl, MySQL, Open Source, and whatever other random stuff catches my interest..."
- MandarinDesign.com/blogger.html. By Michelle Goodrich. "For people who make mistakes."
- Simon Willison's Weblog. "PHP, Python, CSS, XML and general web development."
- UseIT.com. By Jakob Nielsen.
- WebWord.com. More like a news aggregator focused on the Web.
- WQUsability.com. By Whitney Quesenbery. "User-centered design works."
- Zeldman.com. "The Daily Report". By Jeffrey Zeldman. Web design news and info.
Domain Registration
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers [ICANN.org]. A technical coordination body for the Internet. Took over task formerly done by U.S. government (esp. the IANA.org).
- RegistrarStats.com. 'The purpose of this site is to report domain name registration industry'. EG: As of 2005-12-04, the top 6 domain name registrars were:
- GoDaddy.com. Most registrations and one of the cheapest.
- Network Solutions.com [Networksolutions.com or NetSol.com]. The original (was InterNIC). Now art of VeriSign.com.
- eNom.com. Introduced the domain name reselling.
- tucows.com. Lots of freeware and shareware too.
- INWW.com. Seems to be MelbourneIT.com.au now
- Register.com. You have to love the name.
Official
- Apache.org. The top web server.
- Archive.org. "The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."
- DiveIntoAccessibility.org. Making your site accessible.
- IANA.org. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
- ICANN.org. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. A technical coordination body for the Internet.
- InterNIC.org. Intermediate between VeriSign.com (which used to be InterNIC) and PublicInterestRegistry.org.
- Mozilla.org. Mozilla is an open-source web browser and toolkit. Mozilla is an open source continuation of the Netscape browser by Netscape/AOL, Red Hat, and others.
- Gecko (formerly Raptor) is the new HTML rendering engine in Mozilla.
- Gemini was a previous rendering engine project, renamed NGLayout
- Aurora is the Navigation Center in Mozilla and Navigator5
- SeaMonkey refers to versions of Mozilla based on XPFE and NGLayout
- Normandy refers to the Mail/News branch of Mozilla
- PublicInterestRegistry.org. Handles .ORG registries.
- W3C.org The closest thing to an authority on the Web itself. (Note that w3.org works too)
Miscellany
- Articles
- Miscellany
- 101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot.
- 2wire.com. This is a broadband networking company but I really just go to them because they have a little "speed meter" to check the speed of you Internet connection.
- About.com Computing/Technology Section. About.com also has non-computer info.
- Alexa.com.
- 'Founded in April 1996, Alexa Internet grew out of a vision of Web navigation that is intelligent and constantly improving with the participation of its users. Alexa Related Links and Traffic Rankings are the embodiment of this vision, growing and getting better as more people join the Alexa community of smart Web surfers.'
- See how sites rank.
- AListApart.com. "For people who make websites". By SixApart.com, the company behind MoveableType.org and TypePad.com. Lots of good meaty articles.
- Bandwidth.com "An efficient buyers' market for broadband telecommunications capacity."
- Bratta.com. Demos and scripts for beautiful DHTML by a Norwegian named Thomas Brattli. Also a very nice DHTML navigation system for free.
- BrowserShots.org. Submit an URL and they capture screenshots of what it looks like with different browsers.
- CMPnet.com
- CommWeb.com Telecom, Datacom, and Internet
- TechWeb.com Business Technology
- Webtools.com
- Chami.com/HTML-kit/. 'HTML-Kit is a full-featured, highly customizable development environment that can be used to create, edit, validate, preview and publish web pages and scripts.'
- Code Punk. Nice tutorials on HTML, CSS, JS.
- CoolHomePages.com. Good for design tips and ideas.
- CSS Beauty [cssbeauty.com]. 'a project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world. It's purpose is to showcase designers' work and to act as a small portal to the CSS design community.'
- CWD.dk. Cool Web Design. Good for design tips and ideas.
- DevGuru.com.
- Digital-Web.com. Digital Web Magazine. "The web designer's online magazine of choice."
- DynamicDrive.com Tons of great free DHTML via JavaScript.
- Earthweb.com Lots of IT resources.
- Evolt.org. "Evolt.org is a world community for web developers, promoting the mutual free exchange of ideas, skills and experiences."
- FAQTS.com A knowledge base application.
- FirewallGuide.com. Esp. for home PCs.
- gotAPI.com.
- 'the most comprehensive API collection on the web'
- An web interface to other sites that are API references like htmlhelp.com and w3schools.com for HTML, JavaScript DOM, CSS, c, etc.
- home.tampabay.rr.com/bmerkey/cheatsheet.htm. 'Cascading Style Cheatsheet ... Most Useful CSS Properties with Examples'
- html-faq.com. FAQ from the alt.html Usenet newsgroup.
- htmledit.squarefree.com. "Welcome to the real-time HTML editor! Type HTML in the textarea above, and it will magically appear in the frame below."
- HTMLGoodies.com. Lots of good stuff on HTML, CSS, VBS, JS, etc. They have a lot of stuff for beginners.
- HyperOrg.com. "JOHO (Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization)". By David Weinberger. Good at massaging the Web.
- Internet.com. Site with 14 channels (& counting), each with a dozen or sites underneath it.
- 15seconds.com. Lots great quick how-tos for Active Server stuff.
- TheList List of ISPs.
- WebDeveloper.com
- Webopedia.com. Computer glossary.
- WebReference.com
- Experts. A number of experts with helpful articles and info.
- IRT.org. 'a non-profit making online developer site that covers Internet Related Technologies that are cross-browser as well as operating system and platform independent'
- MandarinDesign.com. By Michelle Goodrich.
- NetCraft.com. "research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet."
- Netscape.com.
- Publish.com. "The definitive authority on Web publishing."
- QuirksMode.org. "personal site of Peter-Paul Koch, freelance web developer and JavaScript guru in Amsterdam, the Netherlands". Slick up-to-date stuff. Focus on JS, W3C DOM, CSS, and browsers.
- Refnes Data. A Norwegian with free intro courses on various Web technologies.
- ResourceIndex.com. Resources for web hosting, CGI, and PHP.
- SilverAgeSoftware.com. Tools and stuff.
- SimplyTheBest.com. Free and not. Scripts, shareware.
- SiteExperts.com.
- SitePoint.com. "SitePoint is a fast growing online media company and information provider targeting the Web professional market, specifically Web Developers and Designers. The company has five major revenue streams: advertising and sponsorship, content-based products both online and in retail, software, and more recently streaming video subscriptions and classified listings."
- Some Simple Browser Checks.
- speedtest.net. A very pretty Flash site that tests your connection speed with different servers around the world: upload, download, and latency.
- StatCounter.com. 'A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!'
- StrangeBannana.com. A demo of CSS and XHTML. A new web design is created with each refresh.
- StyleGala.com. 'Stylegala is an online resource and inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who takes interest in websites built with web standards and CSS as primary tools. '
- The Learn List [thelearnlist.com]. Different web tech topics and for each several links to tutorials.
- VeriSign.com. SSL masters. Owner of NetworkSolutions.com.
- W3Schools.com. Free tutorials.
- Browser Statistics. See the historical and current popularity of different browsers, operating systems, and screen resolutions.
- WebbyAwards.com. Annual awards for best sites in different categories. Makes for a good measuring stick.
- WebCredibility.org. By Stanford.
- Guidelines. 10 points.
- WebDeveloper.com.
- WebDevelopersJournal.co.uk.
- WebDevelopersNotes.com. Nice beginners tutorials and stuff.
- WebMonkey. Web dev resources. -->Alas. The site got shut down on 2004-03.
- Website Abstraction. All sorts of JavaScript and DHTML tutorials and goodies.
- WebsitePublisher.net. 'A Guide for the Independent Internet Publisher'
- WebsiteTips.com.
- web-sniffer.net. "View HTTP Request and Response Header".
- WebTechniques.com. A good web magazine too.
- WorldOfEnds.com. 'All we need to do is pay attention to what the Internet really is. It's not hard. The Net isn't rocket science. It isn't even 6th grade science fair, when you get right down to it. We can end the tragedy of Repetitive Mistake Syndrome in our lifetimes -- and save a few trillion dollars' worth of dumb decisions -- if we can just remember one simple fact: the Net is a world of ends. You're at one end, and everybody and everything else are at the other ends.'
- WSAbstract.com. Emphasis on JS and DHTML.
- Xample.net. Some HTML tutorials and resources.
- Zen and the Art of the Internet.
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