Guide to the Internet

 

A road map for understanding the internet

This page has references to materials that can be found on the internet to help create WWW pages. Also are references to applications that add sound and video to the WWW browser. These materials are for Apple Macintosh Computers and the Netscape WWW browser.

WWW page creation tools and guides:

This site was created using HTML Pro. 1.08. It is a shareware application that is very easy to use and preview your work.
A very good basic guide to creating WWW pages can be found at the NCSA site at the University of Illinois.

Helper Applications for WWW browsers:

Netscape keeps a good directory to get sound and video software for its WWW browser.

The Real Audio player enables you to hear sound files in real time from the internet. ABC and National Public Radio have content that uses this technology

Apple Computer has created Quick Time Virtual Reality movies that allow you explore both real and imaginary worlds. The movies are small enough to download on the internet. The player is available for free from Apple.

Adobe has developed the Acrobat (PDF) file format to create electronic documents that can be distributed electronically and still retain the orginal format of the file. The Acrobat reader is distributed for free from Adobe. The files can be viewed on screen or printed out. Adobe keeps a good archive of material at their WWW site.

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