Tools from A to Z [useful sites for WebSurfers & WebMasters] see the Topics -www.pro-soft.de

Tools from A to Z [useful sites]

separating style from content with database....,

Mac & PC only

Creating a gif-based alphabet for headings etc

Teaching Resources

Web-based training links at the Web-based training info center

Using Technology in Teaching

Teaching and Learning Workshop : Martin Westhead EPCC

JTAP : Training and Education

MANTCHI Summary

INTERACT Home Page

Local Information

Tele-learning in a Digital World - Betty Collis

Educational Technology Resource Center

CoMentor : MUD for co-operative learning

Diversity University MOO

Heriot Watt : Teaching and Learning Technology Service

Resource discovery on the Scottish MANs

ZD Net University - online computing tutorials for $4.95 a month

Distance Learning at Manchester Metropolitan University

Yahoo- On-line teaching and learning directory

The Education Index

JTAP report on existing tools for internet based teaching

The UCISA Web Awards for Teaching and Learning

Web Authoring with reference to Bioinformatics and Protein Structure

GAIA - Environmental Education

EPIC, courses in Parallel Computing from EPCC

Mike Barnsley's tools in Tcl/Tk

NASA orbits applets

Education Index at NASA Observatorium

Atmospheric Science, Macquarie University, Sydney

Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center

Department of Geography, University of Texas

Mailbase : electronic discussion lists for the UK higher education community

SELLIC

JETAI

JISC network services for HE in the UK.

European Academic Software Award 1998 closing date : 1-Feb-98

Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative, Heriot-Watt

Educational Technology Page of the Virtual Library.

Integrated Learning Packages, including online forum

Educational Object Economy at Apple

Open University, Postgrad Qualifications in Open and Distance Learning

Horizon - education foresight, sponsored by Micorsoft

E-slate - suite of educational applets

Assessment tools

Web@ssessor

Demo of Web@ssessor

Cyber Evaluator

Marble Mathematical Assessment

CVU Assessment Hall

WinAsks Professional

Online Internet Training for Education

HTML

The HTML Goodies Home Page - Thanks for stopping by...

All About LaTeX2HTML

EuroMET - Creating Your Own Web Page

Frames -An Introduction

HTML Goodies - The Master List

HTML Quick Reference (including Explorer and Netscape extensions)

The HTML Guru!

Timeless principles of web design

HTML Quick Reference Guide

Spinning the Web

HTML at Web Mastery

HTML Math Working Group

Frames, how to..

Meta tags

Preventing browser caching with meta tags

Server-side includes

Server-side-includes at Yahoo

SSI Tutorial

about SSIs

NCSA-HTTP SSI tutorial

Using SSIs - ApacheWeek

XSSI for Apache

Dynamic HTML

Dynamic HTML -essay

Dynamic HTML issue of Web Review

The Dynamic Duo, DHTML tutorial

Using cookies to add persistence to DHTML

VRML

Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) Forum

List of VRML plugins for various operating systems

The VRML Repository

VRML on the rise @ developer.com

Cosmo VRML 2.0 player, available for UNIX "soon"

Liquid Reality, Java-based VRML 2.0 player for UNIX

The VRweb & VRwave (VRML 2.0) plugins, for most platforms

VRweb download from hensa.ac.uk

"Liquid Reality" Download (Best VRML viewer for UNIX)

Oracle Worlds

Help files for VRweb (MWM only)

Globes, with satellite data mapped on them

Virtual UK

Virtual Worlds at Bath

Introduction to VRML 2.0 - Tutorial

VRML news and examples at SGI

XML & SGML

Java and SGML - Rodrigo Barnes

XML at Guardian Online

MathML

WebEQ - putting maths on the web using Java and MathML

XML expectations, Developer.com

The point of XML, Sunworld

WebMethods Web Automation Toolkit,

for extracting data from HTML and XML documents on the web

XML.com : loads of info & news

PERL and XML, at perl.com

XML for exchanging structured data

XML resources at Developer.com

Maths on the web

MathML

WebEQ - putting maths on the web using Java and MathML

Formulae : equation editing and display applets

Knowledge Space Assessment via the Web

paper on displaying maths on the web, including proposal math2gif cgi routine, which you can call from img tag.

HotEqn, excellent suite of equation viewer and editor

Style Sheets

Web Review on Style Sheets

Style Sheets reference guide to compatibility - Web Review

Absolute positioning with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - use a 4.0 browser to see demo

Platform independent animation using JS and CSS

Development Environments

Drumbeat

Macromedia Fireworks

Audio

Progressive Networks, The Home of RealAudio & RealVideo

RealAudio easystart server download

Real Audio UK

Real Audio Server Support

Attaching RealAudio to Web Pages

RealServer4.0 Documentation

RealServer FAQ

Contact Real Server Technical support

RealAudio Help

Help for Real Audio Player 3.0 UNIX

Adam's Audio Archive

Inline Plug-ins: Audio/Video

Directory of /index/sounds/sun-sounds/sound_effects

How to create an AUDITORIAL (using Netscape Media Player) - Web Review

Audio-Visual services at Univ. Edinburgh

Graphics and Multimedia resource centre

Real Player download page

download of realplayer

Real Player set-up (local)

Arboretum software, for cleaning up noisy recordings

Audio and video production, tutorials for real audio tools

Real System Showcase

Video

VXtreme : Real-time web video

RealFlash exampless

Galette : Audio CD grabber for solaris

XAudio : mpeg3 player for UNIX

MpegTV : mpeg video player & plugin for UNIX

Animation

Demo for java version of Flash player

Making animated gifs

The imaging machine - process images on the web, inc .gif animation

List of animation tools

Image Magick - image processing and display, inc animated .gifs

Image Magick manual

Web Magick - free software to create web-based interface for navigating image archives using thumbnails

PERL Magick

GifMerge

Internet Gallery of GIF animation

WhirlGif

Overview of AVI

Streaming Servers

Emblaze - streamin audio and video,without plugins

(download for PC only so far, despite what it says on the page !)

Vivo Splash, Video & Audio, PC & Mac

UNIX

UNIX Text Manipulation Commands

Beginning UNIX

Index of UNIX columns, SunWorld

Usingfind to locate files

UNIX reference desk

Win 95 apps on UNIX

UNIX Review

List of Solaris freeware at sunsite

Xviewers and image software at HPUX, Liverpool

Hensa UNIX Archive

Documentation and Information for UNIX users

Lin uxx

Compression and tar

Killing processes

"tail" and "date" shell commands

Graphics

Graphics & Multimedia Group - JCMB Edinburgh

General computing

computing in the meteorology department

TheASCII character set

TheASCII character set and HTML Escape sequence

Developer.com, Web resources & tools

Technical Resources at Netscape World

GNU archive at sunsite

TheGNU C Library

Guide to GNU tools

GNU M4 Macro Processor

Motif

The X Window System

Advanced visual systems TURNING DATA INTO VISUAL INTELLIGENCE !

Application Visual Systems

Open GL WWW center

Servers

ServerWatch

Netscape FastTrack Server

Download Netscape Server Software

Index of /packages/netscape/pub/server/webserver/fasttrack/2.0/unix

Netscape download for educational institutions

Netscape "shipped" download

FAQ for Netscape fasttrack 2.x server

Netscape server help - index of all articles

Java Server & Servlets

Java Web Server release notes

Securing your web-server @ Sunworld

Apache server - UK mirror

Apache Week

Apache index at Yahoo

PERL modules for Apache server

Apache/PERL integration

Bandwidth analysis

Server log analysis tools

Review of log analysis software at Enterprise-Developer

MUSAGE : PERL script for log analysis

Combined log system

GetStats and CreateStats

Analog most commonly used...

Summary of available log analysers

Yahoo list of log analysis tools

LogScribe : tagging and logging for pages using CGI

W3Perl

Ilux - java based commercial log analysis designed for advertising

WebTrends log analysis tools

Mirroring

File mirroring software at the Network Buyer's Guide

Server mirroring software at the Network Buyer's Guide

Remote Server mirroring software at the Network Buyer's Guide

Wget- free Web mirroring utility

Wget download

free software for mirroring via FTP

Caching

Web Caching FAQ

Effect of caching on log statistics

The national JANET web cache

Archives and File Search

SunSITE Northern Europe

Shareware Shop - Thousands of Shareware, Games, Freeware, and much more!

Guide to Software resources

Search for software at Sunsite UK

Dave Central, software archive

Filez File Search

Freeware for solaris

Hensa Unix Archive

Starting points

First Steps as a Web Developer!

HTML Primer

My Favorite Sites

A Web Engineer's Toolbox

NetLearn: Internet Learning Resources, at Robert Gordons University

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

JavaScript

JavaScript debugger (Netscape 4.03 or greater, but it still doesn't work)

http://www.gla.ac.uk/Clubs/WebSoc/primer/javascript/script.html

JavaScript Authoring Guide

JAVASCRIPT QUICK REFERENCE

Java/JavaScript Resource Center

Netscapejavascript manual

Examples from JavaScript the definitive guide (on file)

Examples from JavaScript the definitive guide

NetscapeWorld, approved resources

Summary of JS features and bugs on main browsers

JavaScript 1.2 : Netscape World

Event Handlers : Netscape World

EducationalJavaScript at Gamelan

Netscape Developer's Edge

Using JavaScript for form validation - Sample Code at netscape.com

Dynamicframesets : example at netscape.com

Advanced JavaScript debugging

Coolnerds JavaScript Reference

Web Coder - Nick Heinle's JavaScript and Dynamic HTML pages

Object detection, not browser detection

Webcoder Scriptorium - loads of example scripts

Designing with JavaScript - book by Nick Heinle

Netscape JavaScript authoring guide

JavaScript support by various browsers - WebCoder

JavaScript examples

The Magic of JavaScript

JavaScript 411, including snippet library

Scripting the browser's back button (developer.com)

The Rhodes arcade, JavaScript games

Creating a "MIDI hi-fi system" using JavaScript

Java

JavaSoft Home Page

Euromet Java Discussion Group

IBM's Java Pages

The UK Java Forum for Business

Java Developer Connection at Javasoft

"For developers", Java resources at Sun

The Java Lobby

UMI Java discussion pages at CVU

Gamelan at developer.com

Links to important Java resources, from JavaWorld

Java Application Servers

jCentral, IBM search tool for Java resources

Java tuition

IBM's free Java tutorial

Sun's Java training selection

Java Servlets at Web Review

Java Basics for Beginners (Netscape World) : Development of Shared Whiteboard

API User's Guide

The Java Course, Tel-Aviv

Education at Sun UK

Developing your first applets Extract from Java Examples in a Nutshell, at WebReview

Sun "JavaTutor"

links for Java questions and tutorials, at Java Boutique

Review of JavaStudio at NCWorld

Java examples

InfoBook - manager of multimedia information

Examples at netscape.com

Applets for astronomical orbits and dates

Java Munro Starfield Viewer Applet

Applets from JavaSoft

Project Java - Educational Applets

Dr Turtle's Java Center - some flashy examples, including using java to generate VRML

The J Files

Loads of applets at XEO

Java Boutique - downloadable applets, including educational, audio

Java : useful applets

Graph applets

JavaChart chart applets and chart development kit include data import from a URL

Graph editing framework

JavaChart - looks good, but costs

JChart - free and cheerful

Chart applet at Java Boutique

the lake applet

E-slate, suite of java for education

Java zines

JavaZine

JavaWorld - IDG's magazine for the Java community - April 1997

Topic index at JavaWorld

Java News Network

Java Universe

Java books

Beginning Java - Ivor Horton

Horton book

Java in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference for Java Programmers

Java books & reviews

Book reviews at Java Woman

Java Books at JollyRodger

Java Development Tools and Environments

Asymmetrix Supercede

IBM VisualAge

Capsule Reviews of Java Tools

JavaWorld Tools Table

The Java Oasis - list of IDEs

JDE, Java development environment integrated with EMACS

Java Beans

JavaBeans page at Javasoft

JavaWorld tour of JavaBeans

JavaStudio download instructions

JavaStudio support site

Java Media

Java media programming, JavaWorld

RGB Image filter spec

awt.image spec

Three ways to produce sound in applets, JavaWorld

PERL & CGI

The PERL language homepage at perl.com

The PERL Institute at perl.org

Yahoo! UK & Ireland - Computers and Internet:Internet:World Wide Web:Programming:Perl Scripts

WWW - Project: Tools: bjellis perl scripts

Index of Perl/HTML archives

CGI Tutorial: Start

Matt's Script Archive

NetscapeWorld, approved resources

The PERL manual at MIT

The PERL manual at MIT : regular expressions

cgi-lib.pl de facto standard library for creating cgi

Script to do file upload using cgi-lib.pl

PERL workshop at Web Review

PERL regular expressions at Web Review

PERL tutorial at Leeds

PERL Archive Network at HENSA

Sending email from PERL

Example of form which emails results using PERL

PERL module archive at HENSA

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) : at HENSA, all the modules

Installing PERL

PERL 5 source

The CGI-Perl Cookbook

DBI Interface for PERL

PERL DB downloads

The PERL Journal

Putting PERL together, Sunworld (borrow what you need and write what you must)

CGI

CGI directory at Yahoo

Security of cgi scripts

CGI Wrap, cgi security

Netscape Server API (NSAPI)

Rex Swain's CGI environment variable demo

Cookies

Cookie spec at Netscape

Using cookies to analyse user activity and customise user experience

Cookie examples

Javascript for cookies

Cookie functions

Cookies with Javascript

Persistent Cookies, links at Yahoo

Writing and reading cookies with cgi

Video Conferencing

Booking form for ATM VCs - use this !

MICE National Support Centre, England

Scottish MAN Videoconferencing Network - Local Service Managers Guide

MAN ATM video conferencing : status of the VC suites

Summary of current MAN VC bookings

detail for connecting up a laptop in JCMB ATM suite

Microsoft Net Meeting (PCs and NT only)

Tips on using MAN Video Conferencing

CuSeeMe PCs and Macs

VDOPhone (PCs)

UKERNA : JANET VC Strategy

VAT plugin for MBONE VC in netscape

Local Mbone info at met.ed

The MERCI project development of MBONE tools from MICE => shrink-wrapped ?

List of MBONE software

SHRIMP - Shrink-wrapped MBONE package

Multimedia Conferencing Applications Archive at Edinburgh

Softboard - electronic whiteboard, for lectures and VCs

Audio Conferencing

Review of new Java-based Audio Conferencing Tools

Voxware Conferencing Currently Wintel only, but plugin-player available for unix.

IRC

EWGIE

Global Chat

Virtual Environments International (VEI)

Discussion Tools

Hyper News

WikiWikiWeb

FirstClass

ShowMe for Sun Networks

Req an email based discussion system,

which tracks the responses to an initial request using a reference number

Web interface for Req

MUDs and MOOs

CoMentor : MUD for co-operative learning

BioMOO

Cup-O MUD : java driven MUD (downloadable)

Hot Mudslide : java driven MUD (downloadable)

WOO - collaborative hypermedia servers

Yahoo- educational MOOs

Educational and Artistic Worlds (list)

Email Databasing

Answer Web

Databases

LiveWire Data Sheet

Netscape Developers Library - LiveWire

LiveWire developers guide

LiveWire online documentation with Fastrack server

Live Wire

Inside LiveWire Pro and Javascript

Using LiveWire for Database connection, Netscape Enterprise Developer, Dec. 97

Glimpse- File system search

Using Microsoft Access database with a website

Validating forms with LiveWire

Saving form data using LiveWire

Database integration using LiveWire

ExistingDB servers accessible over the web

Accessing a database from the WWW

The Sweet Smell of Access (Webmaster)

List of Web Database resources

LiveWire Pro info at netscape

Netiva "Miles faster than other products"

InfoMgr PC database

Searchinga database using Java / Beans

Hyperwave

Oracle Lite - supports java connectivity

Quest web-database inferface for PCs

OneServer

Intro to MySQL, Netscape Enterprise developer

Cold Fusion, free evaluation

Apptivity - java-based database interface

MSQL

miniSQL - free to educational users

MiniSQL at sunsite

MiniSQL web pages

MiniSQL manual (met.ed only)

MSQL & interfaces information page e.g mSQLCGI & mSQLJava

mSQL tools, including WShow

SQL guides in .pdf format (met.ed only)

Integrating databases with the web

mSQLCGI

A mSQL Tutorial

the w3-msql language

How to set up w3-auth, security protection for mSQL

C String formats

mSQLperl discussion

The mSQL FAQ

PERL interface for mSQL at CPAN

up to date PERL - mSQL interface !

SQL

SQL Tutorial

Tcl/Tk

SunScript Home Page for Tcl

Download Tcl/Tk 8.0 from Sun

How to write Tclets for the Tcl plugin

Download the tcl plugin 1.1

The TCL/TK Consortium

TCL blend and Jacl

Helpers

Netscape Plugins

Netscape Media Player

Media player release notes

Browsers

Browser Watch

Amaya from W3C

Netscape Communicator 4.01 download

Communicator 4.0 from sunsite

Communicator from sunsite

UK FTP site for Netscape products

Release Notes for Communicator 4

MS Internet Explorer 4.0 (beta for Unix avaialable autumn '97 ?)

Unofficial Netscape FAQ

Netscape plugins available on Solaris

Make the most of Communicator

Books

Java Books by Sunsoft

Book and site reviews

Nutshell examples

Addison-Wesley Professional Computing and Engineering

The VRML 2.0 Handbook

Online Mags

Web Review

Coolsite of the day

World Wide Web Journal (W3J)

Web Informant

The Web Magazine

Netscape Industry Watch

The Scout Report - reviews of new web technology

Wired - technology news

WebDeveloper.com

IDG - computing news digest

Network World Fusion

CIO Magazine Online

Icons and Clip Art

The Clipart Warehouse (UK) - smart

Icon Bazaar - lots of icons

Kaleidoscope - Really lan backgrounds and borders

Fairy Suryana Animated gif gallery

Fairy Suryana - alphabets + process your image

VRL - Process your image

The Clipart Connection

Andy Art

Filez : search the web for images, or any other file

The background sampler

netCreators icon page

GIFWizard -shrink the size of you GIFs

Colours and graphics

The Netscape colour map

No Dither Netscape Color Palette

The netscape color palette - in Photoshop

Picking web colours

Adobe Photshop for the Web

Web Colour primer at Web Review

interlaced gifs

Interlaced .gifs on UNIX

Photshop plugins

ION , IDL on the net

Creating buttons in PhotoShop

Royalty free photgraphs

UMI Projects

UMI home page

The School of Scottish Studies

MANTCHI Summary

Clyde Virtual University

MARBLE Sub-projects

SHEFC

Scottish higher education institutions

TALISMAN

Remote Sensing Resources

NERC Satellite Station, Dundee University, UK

Department of APEME - University of Dundee

Visualizing Earth

VisEarth Links

NESDIS - NOAA data center

National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA)

Dallas Remote Imaging Group

NASA RISE - Space Education

Virtual Library of Remote Sensing

NASA Mission to Planet Earth

Centre for Earth Observation

EWSE at the CEO - Search for RS resources

Live satellite orbits at the CEO

WWW Virtual Library - Remote Sensing

NASA/Goddard (inc Tutorial!)

Gelos : directory of environmental resources on the web

The Remote Sensing and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Geography, University of Zurich

RS Recommended Links

ERS images

World Resources Institute

Satellite Toolkit man pages (local)

Satellite Tool kit

EEVL Virtual Library for Engineering Resources on the Web, including RS

Meteosat images at Nottingham

NASA Climate and Radiation resources

Java satellite tracking using J-Track at NASA

Image Processing Resources

Listof IP tools at NASA observatorium

ENVI IP software, from the makers of IDL

site-licence acquired by EUCS ? (email EUCS.Purchasing@ed)

Windows and PCs

Windows problems

Misc

Hummingbird-VM: Surf-N-Search Engine
Resource Discovery on the MANs of Scotland
Faculty of Science and Engineering Office
SmartBooks - selected internet books (good)
ftp software shop
Python scripting language
Getting started with Python
Privacy standards - CIO

Events

????

NLN links

Iain's Managment Issues Page

prealpha/courses/english/ars/

prealpha/courses/navig/begina.htm

http://scud.met.ed.ac.uk/mwm/msql/msql.html

http://scud.met.ed.ac.uk/nlncgi/w3-msql/mwm/msql/tableview.html?table=prepost_results_97_98&db=nln

Euromet links

Euromet Developers Resources

EuroMet beta site

Index of all fields and methods of Euromet AWT classes

Euromet AWT package

Euromet applet demos etc.