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Table of Contents

1.1 Other guides

2.1 Some history
2.2 How it works, and why it sometimes doesn't
2.3 Domain names

2.3.1 What's in a domain name?
2.3.2 How domain names are allocated
2.3.3 Understanding domain names
2.3.4 More information

2.4 Software and services currently supported by the Internet

2.4.1 Email
2.4.2 File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
2.4.3 Telnet
2.4.4 News, or UseNet
2.4.5 Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
2.4.6 The http protocol (the Web!)
2.4.7 Other services

2.5 Software and services "coming soon" to the Internet

2.5.1 Smart agents
2.5.2 "Search" technologies
2.5.3 "push" technologies
2.5.4 Internet Telephones

2.6 Security and privacy
2.7 Getting access to the Internet
2.8 Response times/loading
2.9 Commerce on the Net
2.10 Intranets

3.1 Jargon

3.1.1 Computer Jargon
3.1.2 Internet slang

3.2 Netiquette

3.2.1 What to do
3.2.2 What not to do
3.2.3 What to beware of

3.3 Expressing yourself in text

3.3.1 Emphasis

3.3.1.1 Adding emphasis to words
3.3.1.2 Smiling, grinning, frowning
3.3.1.3 SHOUTING

3.3.2 Quoting

3.4 Demographics and language

4.1 Email addresses

4.1.1 What does my email address mean?
4.1.2 How do I find people's email addresses?

4.2 How to use email

4.2.1 Composing email
4.2.2 Getting your mail
4.2.3 Reading your mail
4.2.4 Replying to your mail
4.2.5 Forwarding your mail
4.2.6 Organising your email

4.2.6.1 Mail Folders
4.2.6.2 Address books
4.2.6.3 Deleting old mails
4.2.6.4 Compressing your mail files

4.3 Email services

4.3.1 mailing lists
4.3.2 Netmind
4.3.3 FTP

4.4 Subject lines
4.5 How to deal with spam and junk mail

5.1 Overview
5.2 What all browsers do
5.3 What all browsers don't do
5.4 Understanding Web addresses
5.5 Using web browsers

5.5.1 surfing
5.5.2 Search engines
5.5.3 Sending email
5.5.4 Downloading files
5.5.5 Bookmarking popular sites
5.5.6 Taking a local copy
5.5.7 Viewing HTML source
5.5.8 Tricks for using browsers

5.6 Extending your browser's capabilities

5.6.1 Change browser or get a newer version
5.6.2 Install some Plug-ins
5.6.3 Enable active content

5.6.3.1 Animated .GIFs
5.6.3.2 Java and ActiveX
5.6.3.3 Javascript and other scripting languages

5.7 Common Errors

5.7.1 The dreaded 404
5.7.2 DNS lookup error
5.7.3 Access denied
5.7.4 URL case sensitivity

5.8 Cookies

6.1 What they are
6.2 How they are organised

6.2.1 Newsgroup hierarchies
6.2.2 NEWS distribution
6.2.3 .Answers groups
6.2.4 Moderated newsgroups
6.2.5 Binary groups

6.3 How to use newsgroups

6.3.1 Using a newsreader
6.3.2 In a browser
6.3.3 Using DejaNews

6.4 Usenet Conventions

6.4.1 Subject lines
6.4.2 Signatures

6.5 Usenet related sites

6.5.1 Locating useful resources by newsgroup
6.5.2 Getting statistics on Usenet group usage
6.5.3 DejaNews

6.6 Other on-line news sources

6.6.1 Service provider forums
6.6.2 More conventional NEWS sites

7.1 Altavista

7.1.1 Using Altavista
7.1.2 Special searches
7.1.3 Translating web pages

7.2 Dejanews

7.2.1 Finding postings
7.2.2 Finding newsgroups
7.2.3 Getting author profiles

7.3 RTFM

7.3.1 Reading the FAQ's
7.3.2 Finding people's email addresses.

7.4 Other search engines

7.4.1 Yahoo
7.4.2 Infoseek
7.4.3 Excite
7.4.4 WebCrawler
7.4.5 HotBot
7.4.6 MetaCrawler

7.5 The Internet movie database
7.6 Other sites

8.1 What exactly is HTML?

8.1.1 The overall structure of an HTML page
8.1.2 The HTML standard
8.1.3 Some common and useful tags

8.1.3.1 <TITLE> ... </TITLE> tags
8.1.3.2 Bold, Italics and underline tags
8.1.3.3 Strong and emphasis tags
8.1.3.4 <BR> line break tags
8.1.3.5 <P> ... </P> Paragraph markers
8.1.3.6 <HR> Horizontal rule tags
8.1.3.7 Anchor (hyperlink) tags
8.1.3.8 <IMG> image tags

8.1.4 HTML extensions
8.1.5 Adding hyperlinks to web pages
8.1.6 Adding colour to web pages

8.2 Composing web pages

8.2.1 HTML editors
8.2.2 Testing your pages

8.3 How to teach yourself HTML

8.3.1 Find an HTML reference site
8.3.2 Buy an HTML book
8.3.3 Learn to view local files
8.3.4 Learn to write "correct" HTML
8.3.5 Learn from bad examples

8.4 Learning more advanced HTML

8.4.1 Tables
8.4.2 Forms
8.4.3 Frames
8.4.4 CGI scripts

8.5 Things to bear in mind

8.5.1 Different browsers
8.5.2 Different screen sizes
8.5.3 Links links links
8.5.4 Graphics switched off
8.5.5 Tables/frames/java
8.5.6 Don't keep multiple copies
8.5.7 Keep it fresh
8.5.8 Don't over emphasize "under construction"

8.6 Publishing web pages
8.7 Getting people to view your page

8.7.1 Link to it
8.7.2 Tell your friends
8.7.3 Announce it
8.7.4 Index it

8.7.4.1 How to submit your URL
8.7.4.2 Submitting URL's to lots of search engines
8.7.4.3 How your URL is Indexed
8.7.4.4 How to get a better rating in the index

8.8 Monitoring visits to your web page

8.8.1 Invite feedback
8.8.2 Add a counter
8.8.3 Checking the server log
8.8.4 Use a monitoring service

ActiveX
AFAIK
Altavista
AOLer
ATM
Bandwidth
BBS or bulletin boards
Bookmarks or hot lists
BTW
CFV
CGI Scripts
CSS
De-lurking
Digests
Domain name
Emoticon
FAQS
Firewall
Flames
Followups
Freeware
FTP
FWIW
Ctrl-H (^H)
Headers
Helper applications and plug-ins
HTH
HTML
Hyperlinks
IRC
IIRC
IP or Internet Protocol
IMHO, IMO
Information Super Highway
InfoBahn
Intranet
ISP
ISTR
Java
JavaScript
Junk mail
LOL
Lurking
Mailing lists
META tags
Me too
Mirror site
Moderation
Nerd
Netiquette (or Net-etiquette)
Newsgroups
Newbie
On-line and off-line
Postcardware
Posting
Postmaster or webmaster
Portals
Quoting
Robot
ROFL
RFC
RTFM
RTFFAQ
Shareware
Signal to Noise ratio
Signatures
Smiley
Snail mail
Spam
Surfing
Thread
Trolling
Uploads and downloads
URL
Usenet
Web
Webmaster
WYSIWYG
Yahoo
YMMV
Zip files

© 1997-1999 John A Fotheringham and JafSoft Limited Last Minor Update : 4 December '99