Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 13:10:58 EDT
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Note from Tom Vassos:
Hi gang, here's another batch of WEB DIAMONDS(tm) for your
viewing pleasure...
Need to do some currency conversions? This site will help you
convert from any currency to any other currency (over
40 countries listed):
http://gnn.com/cgi-bin/gnn/currency?United_States
Need to figure out the Zip code for any U.S. address? Go to:
http://www.usps.gov/ZIP4Form.html
Career Resource Center - CareerNet 'Beta' Home Page:
http://www.seanet.com/Vendors/careers
The Internet Mall (1,900 online stores):
http://www.mecklerweb.com/imall
Believe it or not, a U.S. Budget Simulator. You become President
and try to balance the budget (created by UC Berkeley):
http://garnet.berkeley.edu:3333/budget/budget.html
Wanna play a game of chess? Go to the Internet Chess Club:
http://www.hydra.com/icc/
American Airlines WWW site has good general info (frequent flyer
program, etc.) but I could not yet find the actual flight schedules:
http://www.amrcorp.com/
A free copy of Sam Sternberg's "Business Guide for the Internet":
In North and South America, go to:
http://www.phoenix.ca/Phoenix/whats-new.html/Internet Business Guide
gopher://gopher.phoenix.ca/** Whats New **.../ Internet Business Guide...
ftp://ftp.phoenix.ca/pub/ibook
In Europe and Asia, go to:
gopher://gopher.hkkk.fi/:70/11/HKKK/InternetBusinessGuide
To see some of Netscape's "push" capabilities:
http:/www.razorfish.com/
The remainder of these WEB DIAMONDS(tm) are for technical users:
A tutorial for writing HTML documents, including a glossary of HTML
tags, a template document to get you started, many examples, and a
reference section with other WWW development tools and manuals:
http://www.usask.ca/dcs/courses/cai/html/
...all you really need to know about CGI:
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/overview.html
PERL programmers, good info at:
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~mengwong/forms/
Error in last week's WEB DIAMOND(tm) posting: My apologies to SUN.
I mentioned the fact that I thought IBM had sponsored the Vatican
site when in fact it was sponsored by SUN. IBM's involvement
with the Vatican is working on a massive project to digitize
thousands of Vatican documents which will become accessible
via the Web. Here's a WEB DIAMOND(tm) as a peace offering:
Web design info at SUN's page (analysis of various home page
designs, icon designs, useability engineering methods, etc.):
http://www.sun.com:80/sun-on-net/www.sun.com/uidesign/
...AND HOW WAS YOUR WEEK?
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TOM VASSOS, B.E.S., M.B.A., Part-time Instructor, University of Toronto
Internet Writer, Educator, Speaker: Call for courseware, keynotes, etc.
Manager, Internet Marketing Strategies, IBM Software Solutions Division
E-MAIL: vassos@vnet.ibm.com PHONE: 416-448-2189 FAX: 416-448-2893 (c)
Of course I don't speak for IBM or the U of T, I have enough trouble
speaking for myself. This note is brought to you from Toronto, CANADA
PS. Send e-mail if you'd like to beta test a Secure AIX Internet Server
PPS. Let me know if this sigfile comes out as 18 lines instead of 9.
(Disclaimer: IBM may be involved in some of these sites (e.g.,
as sponsor, web designer, consultant, etc.)
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