Carol's Web Consulting Page

What the Net can do for you

Advertising

Like a yellow pages entry, newspaper or magazine advertisements, web pages can display images of your product, promotional material and contact information. Moreover, due to the nature of the medium, people who are looking at it are probably looking at it because they are interested. 8)

Catalogs

Always up to date, no need to reprint or do more mailings each time a correction or change is made. The level of interaction with customers is yours to decide. Phone-in orders, mail in orders, e-mailed orders, or allow web forms to directly interface with your order database.

News Gathering Services

• NewsPage - a newsfiltering service that gathers information from "many sources". A limited free service is provided, but for the full experience, fees are required.
• World Weather
• The Daily Planet - Weather with Pictures
• WHO Tobacco and Health
• World Population (also available as text only)
• Host Name to Latitude/Longitude

Online Publications

• The Globe and Mail - Canada's national newspaper
• An international sampling of online newspapers
• InfiNet's NewsStand - a list of American newspapers and news providers on the net
• Business Magazines
• Internet Magazines
• The On-line Books Page
• Online Documentation

Business Information

• AT&T Internet Toll Free 800 Directory
• FedEx Airbill Tracking Form
• Legal Care for Your Software

Financial Information

• Currency Conversion Rates
• Currency Exchange and Conversion
• Experimental Stock Market Data
• Bank of Montreal
• Canada Trust
• Toronto Dominion Bank
• Royal Bank 10 Minute Guide to Business on the Internet
• Visa Card

General Information

• Abortion Activism
• Banned Books On-Line
• Child CyberSEARCH Canada - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police officially recognized site for Canadian missing children agencies.
• Edmunds Automobile Buyer's Guide
• 411 - the Internet White Pages.
• How to Build an Atomic Bomb
• I-Ching Casting
• The Jihad To Destroy Barney on the Worldwide Web
• Canadian Lottery Results
• Pizza Hut
• Religion and Philosophy Resources on the Net
• Skeptics Society
• TAP: The Ada Project
• Alt.Support.Stop-Smoking Home Page
• Thank You for Not Smoking!

Basic Online Information

• WWW FAQ
• The World Wide Web Initiative: The Project

Browsers

• Tools - A list of browsers, viewers, and preparation software
• Clients - A list of web clients (ah, jargon! clients are viewers and browsers)
• Adobe Acrobat - Adobe Acrobat is, currently, the only way to ensure that your web pages appear exactly as you desiged them. All other browsers "render" the information provided over the net based on user preferences. Fonts, backgrounds, screen size, whether or not images appear at all, etc. are all at the user's discretion.
• HotJava - A browser and an programming language that greatly extends the HTML concept. It currently runs on Solaris and Windows NT machines only.
• Lynx - A text-only browser. Even with no graphics capability at all you can still surf the net.
• MacWeb - A web browser for the Macintosh
• NetScape - Currently the most popular graphic web browser available. It can run on just about any platform from Unix boxes to PC's and Macintoshes. Has some nifty but non-standard extensions.
• NCSA Mosaic - Formerly the most popular web graphic browser available. It can run on just about any platform as well.
• VRML
• WinWeb - A web browser for Windows
• w3 - The Emacs World Wide Web Browser. It runs on just about any platform that emacs does, providing yet another piece of the integrated operating system that is emacs 8). It is mosaic and hyperbole compatible.
• misc - Platform specific listings of browsers.

Servers

• NCSA httpd home page

Provider Directories

• List generated by Academics
• List generated by a Commercial Entity

Local Providers

• Calgary Free-Net
• AGT - full service provider.
• CADVision - full service provider.
• Canada Connect Corporation - full service provider.
• CCI Networks.
• InterNode Networks - SLIP/PPP connection provider.
• Netway Inc - dialup connection service provider.
• The Network Centre - connection service.
• Nucleus - BBS and internet connection service.
• Telnet Canada Enterprises, Ltd. - full service provider.

Utilities

• alt.binaries.pictures utilities archive

Online Culture

Comprehensive Sites

• EINet Galaxy
• GNN - the Global Network Navigator, a service brought to you by O'Reilly & Associates. Perhaps a more friendly interface to their data is via their Whole Internet Catalog. They also host a list of new sites that is put together by NCSA Mosaic.
• Matthew Gray's Comprehensive List of Sites - large amounts of mostly unfiltered data. But a starter's list of cool sites is provided.
• The Mother-of-all BBS
• The Planet Earth Home Page - a well very organized site, also available in a text only format.
• The WWW Virtual Library - brought to you by the people who started the World Wide Web project.
• Yahoo - Yet Another Hierarchical Organized Oracle. They also have a list of cool links

Web Page Rating Services

• DigiPlanet
• Point Surveys
• Webhound - interactive rating service
• WebTrack

Other Services

• Make Your Own Web Page - if you don't think you need professional help, go ahead, try it for yourself! 8)
• InfiNet's Cool Site of the Day
• Spider's Pick of the Day
• Netscape: What's Cool - Netscape's list of cool sites on the net
• Home Of the WEB Seeress
• URL Roulette - a page that will provide a random URL for you to visit.
• Helpful Online Music Recommendation Service - Formerly known as Ringo, this service queries as to your tastes in music and recommends music that people who liked the same music also liked. The more you use it the better it gets!

What I can do for you

Some Examples of my Work

• A Canadian Figure Skating Information Page
• A Computer Graphics Page
• Chinese Knotting Home Page
• Kumihimo Home Page
• A Simple Hypertext Document

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