University of Victoria Computer Help Desk WWW
This site with computing information and links is sponsored by the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Though part of the site is intended for use within the university, there are many pages that will be helpful to any computer user. The "How To..." page has background, documentation, and links on networking software, Internet applications, virus protection programs, and more, for MS-DOS, MacIntosh, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Unix. There are many links to computing publications, tech support sites, and software downloads. Information is sorted by platform and application. There is a very useful section on encoding, compression, and decompression. If you need the application to decode a specific file extension, you can find it here. There is also a section about the year 2000 century change.
http://helpdesk.uvic.ca/

The Geek Guide To The Web
The Geek Guide to the Web is a guide to web resources for computer consultants. There are sites covering desktop publishing, graphic design, programming, tech support, and WWW / Internet. In addition there are resources on industry news, job hunting, marketing, legal information, and running a small business. Each link is thoroughly reviewed, and new sites are added weekly. Looking for a computer consultant? Search the Rent A Geek directory for consultants in various specialties.
http://www.rentageek.com/resources.html

Windweaver Web and Windows Resources
Here is a website which encompasses over a hundred pages of WWW and Windows help. It includes a complete illustrated manual of Windows 95, additional Windows help, and Windows 95 weekly tips - everything for the Windows 95 user. But there is much more. Users will find many general Net surfing resources here, especially help with search engines. At The Search Page, the author has published in-depth reviews of online search engines, directories, and libraries, explaining how each one works and what kind of searches it does best. In addition, over 300 reference resources are listed here, including books, etexts, ezines, newspapers; computer and Internet centers, newbie help, Net guides, shareware; people and company finders, mailing list discussion groups, and newsgroups. The Web Wisdom section offers experienced tips on how to deal with spam, online conflict resolution, and guidelines for email communication. There is also a guide to live Web cams.
http://www.windweaver.com

Introduction to HTML course
The University of Melbourne offers a free, self-contained HTML course at this website. The course has information on HTML 3.2, examples to use as a guide for creating your own HTML documents, and exercises to work with. Solutions are provided for each exercise, and you can check your HTML using the HTML validation service. The whole course can be completed online or downloaded for printing.
http://www.its.unimelb.edu.au/courses/publish/HTML/IntroHTML.html

Webling's Cafe
Webling's Cafe is a treasure chest for Web marketers and designers, with substantial articles and references on many subjects. The McLuhan Room contains articles on Internet marketing and advertising: how to get traffic to your site, how to measure a site's success, legal issues and copyrights, secure transactions, and more. The Escher Room covers Web page design and authoring, such as mastering Adobe Photoshop, how to produce good-looking thumbnails of photographs, using cascading style sheets, typography, setting monitor gamma, image scanning, how to add raytracing effects, and using Latin 1 special characters with HTML. There are banners, bullets, and buttons to download here. The Renoir Room presents computer graphics techniques such as digital typography and illustration, graphical hardware and software, and color theory. The Tom Jobim Room has references on Brazilian marketing and advertising.


The Jargon File
This is a fascinating web page all about computer hackers' jargon. The line between hackish slang and techspeak, the formal technical vocabulary of programming, electronics, and computer science is fuzzy, and shifts over time. A lot of techspeak originated as jargon, and a lot of jargon arises from overgeneralization of techspeak terms. The Jargon File explains hacker speaking and writing style, and how the hackers' logic and syntax arises from the mental habits created by programming. Hackers' humor, inventiveness and love of wordplay is evident throughout the jargon expressions. This web page includes an alphabetical lexicon and pronunciation guide to such words as foo,baz, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud, kluge, cruft, and mu. The probable origins of hacker terms makes interesting reading in itself as it includes much discussion of hacker history, and stories of the early programmers. There are also tales from hacker folklore, some of them resembling Zen stories; a portrait of J. Random Hacker, and a bibliography of non-technical works which have either influenced or described the hacker culture.


ACM, The First Society in Computing
Since 1947, the Association for Computing Machinery has been advancing information technology throughout the world. ACM offers chapters and activities, special interest groups, conferences and events, journals, magazines and films. Chapters hold lectures by computer professionals, sponsor state-of-the-art seminars on information technology, conduct training workshops, and publish newsletters. ACM's SIGs provide educational resources in programming languages, software engineering, graphics, computer-human interaction, and more. Publications include Computing Reviews and the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, now available online, and cover such topics as object technology, participatory design, internetworking, software project management, hypermedia, and wireless computing. Members of ACM can enhance careers, research job opportunities, gain immediate access to technological advances, and participate in electronic forums. ACM also recognizes important contributors in the field of computing.



Personal Technology Home Page
Personal computers are just too hard to use, and it isn't your fault." With this premise, Walt Mossberg launched the Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal in 1991. His idea was to take the consumer's side in the struggle to master the machine, to deliver a weekly dose of useful information in plain English, but in a way that never condescends to readers. If computers and software were a mystery to many smart, but nontechnical, users, he reasoned, maybe it was the fault of designers and manufacturers, not the users. This regular column to explain and review computers and software is now available online.
http://ptech.wsj.com/html2/

Cheltenham Computer Training
Visit this web page for free sample downloads of over 25 computer and IT training courses! The courses range from a simple introduction to DOS and PC to a 500-page technical Supporting Windows course, and cover Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint; Lotus applications; Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, and IBM OS/2 Warp operating systems. In all, there are over 3500 pages, formatted in Adobe Acrobat, which can be viewed, downloaded and printed in their entirety. These courses are used in over 30 countries worldwide, and have received numerous awards. This courseware is suitable for corporate training departments, commercial computer training companies,and individual IT consultants. There are special discounts for secondary or high schools, colleges, universities, and company training departments. New training courses are developed in response to requests. There are also technical IT / PC programming materials. Organizations can purchase a site license allowing them to print as many copies as they require for training.
http://www.cctglobal.com/

HTML Help by The Web Design Group
This web page has excellent detailed information and techniques for the World Wide Web designer. Find everything you were wondering about on how to work with graphic images for web pages, like when to use JPEG and when to use GIF, how to use transparent and interlaced images, how to create animated GIFs, and how to work with color palettes, dithering and gamma. Learn more about the use of frames, and read all about style guides. The Web Design Group adheres to a standard of authoring a web page so anyone, using any browser, can enjoy the page. Detailed instructions here explain how to design a page everyone can read.
http://www.htmlhelp.com

Timothy's JavaScript Examples
This site provides a collection of cut-and-paste JavaScript examples from all over the Internet, with links to many JavaScript resources including tutorials and newsgroups. This is a great starting site for those interested in learning JavaScript. Use the index to find examples of banners, menus, counters, sequencers, date and time displays, guest books, randomizers, calculators, prompt boxes, scientific displays, and more. If you find something you're interested in, click on the View Source button and see how it's done. For documentation or more examples, you can visit the Resources section, which has pointers to some of the leading authorities on JavaScript.
http://www.essex1.com/people/timothy/js-index.htm

desktopPublishing.com: The Ultimate Desktop Publishing Resource
This site is designed to be the ultimate resource for electronic publishing, with over 120 pages of information on desktop publishing, publishing software, and web page design. Find designer tips, reviews, news, magazines, and vendors. Users can download for free many templates, icons, fonts, backgrounds, clipart, and cartoons. There are showcase pages with examples of design technology, and links to many DTP, art, and graphics sites. Be sure to visit the Web Designer's Paradise!
http://desktopPublishing.com

Selena Sol's Public Domain CGI Script Archive
"The goal of the site is mainly to document the work that I have done so that perhaps other programmers can learn from the way I did things and evolve my ideas. . . . In the following pages I have included working examples of my scripts as well as the text of the code so that you can have one window open with the code and the other with the working script and figure out how I did what I did, then take the ideas and run with them for your own needs. . . . Spread the meme, build a community of friends!" Some of the sample scripts here are: Selena's Electronic Outlet database shopping cart application, Form Processor, Guestbook, Basic Animation Scripts, Random Banner Generator, Slide Show, Multiple Choice Grader, Classified Ad Manager, Mailing List Manager, Database Manager, Search Engine, Fortune Cookie, Groupware Calendar, Environment Variable Tester, Time and Date Script, Hello World Applet, Web Chat, Bulletin Board Script, and Password Authorization. Visitors to this web page can read the FAQ and submit questions, consult the reference library, or join a mailing list to get updates on the page.
http://www.extropia.com/

Crypto-Log: Internet Guide to Cryptography
This website is a comprehensive catalog of Internet resources on cryptography. Find here links to algorithms and mathematics for cryptography; bibliographies, periodicals, e-journals, books, databases, Internet searchers; a calendar of conferences, meetings, and workshops; disk and file system encryption; key escrow; laws and regulations; personal pages on cryptography; network and Internet security; newsgroups, FAQs and mailing lists; academic, commercial, government, technical and professional organizations; policy discussions; protocols and standards; software; steganography (hiding information within noise); voice encryption (telephone security, wiretapping threats); vulnerabilities (risks, defects, hacks and cracks). There are additional links for archives of FTP and WWW servers providing documents, programs and source code.
http://www.enter.net/~chronos/cryptolog.html

The All Basic Code Homepage
The All Basic Code Homepage, or ABC for short, is a collection of Basic (QuickBasic, PowerBasic, Visual Basic, Asic, MoonRock, etc) code snippets. Users can preview the snippets before downloading, and submit their own code snippets for learning purposes. The Basic ABC's are monthly lessons on different Basic commands. This web page continually has the latest ABC packet, and the latest version of the ABCreader available for download. There are reviews of current programming add-ons or libraries, plus reviews and demos of freeware, shareware, and commercial products that can be used with Basic compilers. Also get the latest version of PostIt!, an encoder for binary files that will let you post those files in text only newsgroups. Users can also consult the Basic FAQ, visit Basic newsgroups, and find links to other Basic-related websites.
http://www.techcalendar.com/

JAS's Javascript Resources
This site has a big list of international resources for Javascript, and illustrates some features of Javascript in its design. Some of the links included are: The First And Best Javascript Site, Javascript Tips Of The Week, The Idiot's Guide to Javascript, Netscape's Javascript Authoring Guide, Websys Javascript Info, Create Animated GIFs, and Cut And Paste Javascript. There are various examples of Javascript, including book author sites, a doodle pad, games, and a Javascript sites tour. For those who want to investigate further, there are Javascript listserve mailing lists, live chat for Javascript programmers, further experiments with JavaScript, FAQs, and Javascript tips in such diverse languages as French, Japanese, and Swedish.
http://www.designsrus.com/

Computer Help Hotline
At this page you can find help with the full range of computer questions, for PCs, MACs, and mini-computers. Computer Help Hotline offers 24-hour technical assistance. Try Expert Eddie to help you diagnose the problem. You can also consult white papers, support files, or find the link to the home page of the manufacturer. For more difficult questions, you can consult live or email technical support here. You can also get free training software, or order training videos. The Hotline also offers general consulting, software and hardware.
http://computer-help.com

Webreference.com
Everyone from beginning surfers to webmasters will find webreference.com a great way to learn about the Internet and the art of website creation. Some of the general Web resources include browsers, conferences, FAQs, glossaries, history, legal issues, magazines, searching, software, and tutorials. For webmasters, there are resources for audio, collections, file formats, graphics, guides, imagemaps, interactivity, programming, security, SGML, Unix, URXs, usage tools, and VRML. Find articles on such topics as how to make an animated GIF, browser-optimized content delivery, and what makes a great web site. There are reviews and tips on software and hardware, and an award for the Web Wizard of the Month.
http://webreference.com/