Bob's Template and Incredibly Fast
World Wide Web Introduction
Be an expert today:
STEAL THIS PAGE!

You can copy this file,
print it with your word processor,
open it with Netscape from your disk,
study it to see how it works,
or make another copy and
edit it to turn it into your very own "Home Page."

Then you can PUBLISH it on the Internet!

(If you do, be sure to change the email address at the end
so that I don't get all of your fan mail.)....

You can open this file with Netscape on the Mac (using the File menu's Open File command), or edit it with Simple Text, Teach Text, or MS Word. (But with the latter, always save it as Text Only, not as Word's normal format.) Look at the codes on paper or in one window of the screen while you click on the blue or red link words. Use Netscape's "back" command or its "go" menu to backtrack.

While you are looking at this page with Netscape, check out the View menu. Try the "View - Source" command. It shows you all the codes in the page you were just looking at with Netscape.

This command works with any page on the Web! Do you realize what that means? Since the Macintosh lets you copy and paste between windows, you can copy the link codes for your favorite sites and paste them into your own home page on the disk! You can build a huge library of links to your favorite places on the Internet in just a few hours.

Since you're only taking the *address*, it's not plagiarism. (But if you took someone else's whole *collection* of addresses and pretended to have done all the work involved in finding them and describing them, I think it would be.)

Later, when you're happy with your very own home page, you can upload it to ISIS and "publish" it on the Web for us all to see.

Here are OIT's instructions on making a public home page:

Bob Stepno

World Wide Web "pages" or "sites" are created by marking up plain text files with HTML codes. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. A little bit goes a long way, such as the dozen or so codes in this file. They are really all you need. If you want more instruction, there are now several books on HTML at the RAM Shop bookstore, as well as plenty of online tutorials, such as the ones linked right here, thanks to the folks at Netscape (They didn't create all of these tutorials. That's the neat thing about Hypertext -- one author can "cite" works by other authors, and connect to the full text.)

If you need help with Netscape itself, here's Netscape's own manual at Netscape.com.

For a huge collection of answers to the Frequently Asked Questions about the Web, see Tom Boutell's World Wide Web FAQ which is stored at Sunsite here on campus, and used by people all over the world.

Major directories of the net & search programs

(Notice how this is an indented, bulleted list, by the way...)

• internetMCI Directory Big communications companies like MCI have discovered the Web, and are (of course) trying to figure out how to make money with it. But in the spirit of "sharing" that is behind the Web, even the commercial "sites" include some free information and links to free information created by other people.

• Yahoo is an Internet World Wide Web directory started by some students at Stanford last year and now it's probably the most popular way to find things on the Web, since Netscape has included it on its built-in menus.

• The Lycos Home Page: Hunting WWW Information with The Lycos(tm) "Catalog of the Internet" copyright © 1994, 1995 Carnegie-Mellon University.

• Worldwide Web Meta-Indexes and Search Tools

• Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page

• Infohiway, Show me the Way!

• GLOSARIO DE INTERNET is a really useful guide to the Web and the Internet. It is in Spain, so you can brush up on your foreign language skills at the same time!

• New Riders' Official World Wide Web Yellow Pages

• The Information SuperLibrary (tm) has info about printed books! How anachronistic!

• The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

A jumbled list of sites

These are a few places I'm interested in, or think you might be...