TOP 25 WEB SITES !
Below are my favorite
links, the ones I find myself returning to often. I
hope they will be of use to you. Perhaps you will have
fun with some of them too.
Enjoy!
FODOR'S TRAVEL ONLINE -
Up-to-date travel information brought to the web by the
largest English-language travel-information publisher
in the world.
http://www.fodors.com
THE WEATHER CHANNEL - Current
world and local weather, forecasts, weather maps and
breaking weather stories. They have it all when it comes to
weather, including feature sections such as Health, Travel,
and Headlines.
http://www.weather.com
GLOBAL METRIC TIME SERVICE -
An extensive database of over 1500 cities and towns, in 177
individual time zones, across 237 countries. Your own personal
list of locations is saved between sessions. This site takes
the guesswork out of time zones.
http://www.globalmetric.com/time/
CONDE NAST TRAVELER - Daily
updated travel site with outstanding travel information and
regular features from the top travel magazine.
http://www.cntraveller.com/
OPLIN - OPLIN is the Ohio Public
Library Information Network. "The overriding rationale for
OPLIN is to ensure that all citizens have equal access to
information, regardless of location or format and regardless
of location of the user." Very high-quality reference
information. A few of the databases are only available to
Ohio library card holders, but much of it is free to all.
http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/
THOMAS LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION
ON THE INTERNET - A service of The Library of Congress.
Includes summaries and status of all bills pending in Congress, public
laws, roll call votes and committee information along with
information on the legislative process and a database of
historical documents.
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html
iTOOLS - The three sites that
you can jump to at iTools include iTools, Find it! and Research
it! Your one-stop reference desk. Language translators,
geographical and financial information and look-up tools for
stock quotes, package tracking and much much more. You won't
believe what this site has to offer! Jump to all three sites
from this page:
http://www.itools.com/research-it/
AMAZON.COM - An online
bookstore that offers customer-friendly service and a very
easy to navigate web site. 8 million people in more than 160
countries who have bought from Amazon.com have made them the
leading online shopping site. I wish I had bought stock in
this company when they first went public!
http://www.amazon.com/
BIBLIOFIND - The internet's
largest bookselling site. Nine million used, antiquarian and
rare books, periodicals and ephemeral offered for sale by
thousands of booksellers around the world. Very very valuable
site. Rated the #1 favorite site of 1997 by Yahoo! Internet
Life.
http://www.bibliofind.com/
THE LITERARY WEB - A hypermedia
guide to literary resources available on the World Wide Web.
The Literary Web is geared toward readers of fiction and
poetry as well as those who write it, and those who teach it.
Established by School of Information Sciences at The
University of Tennessee. Updated frequently.
http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~jbh/litweb.html
ZDNet SOFTWARE LIBRARY - The
largest online collection of tested, rated and reviewed
shareware, freeware and commercial demos for your computer.
http://www.zdnet.com/swlib/
FILEZ - Quick and easy access
to the wealth of files out on the Internet. Over 75 million
files. The servers are indexed weekly to insure accurate
results.
http://www.filez.com/
STROUD'S CWSAPPS - A one-stop
download site for the latest and greatest software
on the Internet. Comprehensive file listings, free downloads,
ratings, and extensive reviews.
http://cws.internet.com/home.html
MIKE'S WORLD - A great source
for web designers. This site contains graphics, fonts, and
tutorials perfect for beginning to advanced web designers.
CGI-Barn, Software Reviews, Scripts, Web Master resources
and a great site search engine.
http://www.mikesworld.net/
HEY YOU! GRAPHICS - Pages and
pages of free original graphics for use on your homepage.
Sets, borders, bars, buttons, and other special extras. These
graphics are really different and very beautiful. There is
also a good help section that explains the basics of making
a web page with links to more detailed HTML guides. Also
links to some of the best graphics sites on the web.
http://www.hey-you.com/graphics
LYCO'S IMAGE GALLERY - More
than 80,000 free images, current pictures and vintage
illustrations.
http://www.lycos.com/picturethis/
FINE SITE - The Fine Site is a
Net Guide and Gallery focusing on arts, design and photography
This site promotes the idea and realization of virtual museums,
galleries and exhibits on the Web. It is absolutly beautiful!
They present special exhibits of artists from all over the
world. The virtual exhibits are from many fields: arts and
design, photography and mixed media. Also, detailed
information about artists and featured works.
http://kultur-online.com/finesite/
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF
PHOTOGRAPHY - "A Museum Without Walls...for an Art Without
Boundaries." Exhibitions are drawn from the Collection of
Wm. B. Becker, a privately-held collection that concentrates
on the first 75 years of photography.A truly wonderful
experience.
http://www.photographymuseum.com
Mr. Becker has kindly given permission for the use of my
current favorite photograph from the collection. If you would
like to see it,
click here!
THE INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE -
The ultimate movie reference source. Everything you could ever
possibly want to know about movies. Updated continuously.
It currently covers over 170,479 titles with over 2,462,516
filmography entries.
http://us.imdb.com/
CALENDAR ZONE - "Comprehensive
categorized calendar catalog currently containing countless
correlating connections & calzone recipes!" Just so you'll know
when to send those cards!!! Any type of calendar you could
possibly want! Celestial, Cultural, Daily, Event, Historic,
Holiday, Millennium, Interactive, Reference, Y2K and many more.
And the calzone recipes look great too!!!
http://www.calendarzone.com/
YNOT.COM - Fully animated cards
using Flash animation. Also a "Create your own card" section.
And it's all free!
http://www.ynot.com/
Parts of YNOT.COM use Flash 3 technology. If you don't have
it, you can get a trial version here:
www.macromedia.com/
software/flash/
Click on products, then on flash
BLUE MOUNTAIN ARTS GREETING
CARDS - Brought to the web by Blue Mountain Arts Publishing,
which was founded by Dr. Stephen Schutz, along with his wife,
poet Susan Polis Schutz. Free electronic animated and musical
greeting cards. Includes a list of upcoming holidays that is
very useful and includes holidays from different cultures and
countries.
http://www4.bluemountain.com/
MESSAGE MATES - Not exactly
e-cards! Free, downloadable, animated message bearers to
help celebrate holidays, birthdays, and more. There are some
pretty funny things here. Check out the "The Unholy Haitian
Horror Head" and "Trick or Treat" even if it isn't
halloween!
http://stuart.messagemates.com/
THE BIG KISS PAGE - The very
first "fun" thing I ever found on the net and still my
favorite stress reliever! Rated as cooler than Barbie by
Wired Magazine! KiSS refers to the Japanese term "kisekae
ningyou" which means playing dress-up with dolls. KiSS allows
you to load KiSS paper dolls on your computer and dress them
in different outfits by using your mouse to click and drag the
clothes. There are hundreds and hundreds of doll sets to
choose from. And it's ALL FREE!!! Links to other Kiss sites
are available here as well. This site is in English with Doll
names given in both English and Japanese.
http://otakuworld.com/kiss/
If you would like to see a picture of a Kiss Doll set
click here!
GLOBO-ONLINE - Wonderful 3D
interactivity using Flash Technology. You have to see the
"Dancer"! Just keep clicking on the buttons after it loads.
Click and click and click! Much better than the dancing baby!
Take time to view the entire gallery. It's fascinating and well
worth the time!
http://www.multimania.com/goprof/
Globo-Online uses Flash 3 technology. If you don't have it,
you can get a trial version here:
www.macromedia.com/
software/flash/
Click on products, then on flash
Permission has been granted for use of copyrighted logos used
on this page. I wish to thank the generous people at those
sites for thier kind replies to my queries.
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created as an assignment for a class in HTML given by
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