World Wide Web Basics

  Searching the Web
  Virtual Libraries
  Tutorials
  Promoting Your Pages
  NewsGroups
  Web Browsers

WWW
Tools

Searching the Web - forms capable browser required for most.

WebCrawler	Win a million dollars! Play the Million Dollar WebCrawl today! Search the web and show either titles or summaries. If you're new to the Web, you might want to check out the Basics of WebCrawler Searching
InfoSeek	Free personalized news, delivered right to your desktop. Search tips for experts and beginners, Great Web software you can download now.
Lycos, Inc.	Some real cool features, like street maps of the real world, and Recent Press Releases. WEB Reviews, and PeopleFind—Where you enter a name of a person, select a US city and state (optional) and you'll get a list of matching addresses and telephone numbers!
Yahoo	The most popular subject tree style search program around. Information Center, Headlines: TopStories, Business, Technology, Politics, and more
AltaVista	Gives you access to the largest Web index: 30 million pages found on 275,600 servers, and three million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups. It is accessed over 16 million times per weekday.
WWW Worm	Best of the Web '94 - Best Navigational Aid. Serving 3,000,000 URL's to 2,000,000 folks/month.
Other Search Engines	Microsoft's page of search engines, with their own search by keyword feature using the go command with their browser.

Virtual Libraries - these do not need a forms capable browser

Virtual Library at CERN	The WWW Virtual Library at CERN, the Particle Physics Laboratory in Switzerland. A distributed subject catalogue. This is where the WWW started.
Inter-Links	Inter-Links is provided as a public service. It was created and is maintained by Rob Kabacoff Ph.D., from the Center for Psychological Studies at Nova Southeastern University, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Other Virtual Libraries	These are collections of information by subject matter, good places to start when looking for information.

Tutorials - Some tutorials and FAQs to answer your questions.

Great Website Design Tips	Great Website Design Tips - for designing great web sites. Hints on HTML, style, layout, GIF, JPEG, graphics, color, and more.
Yet Another "HTCYOHP"	Yet Another "How To Create Your Own Home Page" Home Page. Or, how I learned to stop worrying, and to love HTML..
WWW Tutorial	The Virtual Library of the Buzzard's Nest, HOW TO SURF IN CYBERSPACE
A Beginner's Guide to HTML	This guide is intended to be an introduction to using HTML and creating files for the Web.

Promoting Your WEB Pages

Promoting
Your Page

You have spent a great amount of time and creative energy to put your page up on the Web. Now, how do you go about building a significant stream of traffic? Make your site easy to find.

A1's Searchable
Directory

Here we have 670 FREE WWW Web Page Promotion Sites! Or they will do it for you. These on-line databases and directories are accessed by many millions of people from around the world each day. Let our team of Experts Professionally Submit your Web Page for you to as many as 100 Sites. As low as only $1.59 per site!

AAA World Announce Archive

This is a SafeSurf Search Engine, please don't be daunted by the form. If your site has no sexual content. Please simply choose "all ages" and leave the form on it's default settings.

The following services will Distribute Your URL to
Many Sites for a fee:

Submit It!	The most popular Web site promotion service on the Net.
The PostMaster	PostMaster is the Internet's premier site announcement service!
SME's WebPost	Promote your site. Manage the process. Track your results.

World Wide Web newsgroups - WWW resources on UseNet.

comp.infosystems.www.announce - World Wide Web announcements.

Web Browsers

Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer are the most common browsers for the IBM-PC. NCSA Mosaic was one of the very first browsers to gain acceptance, and is still a very good product. Shareware versions (fully functional) can be downloaded from these sites.