Tools from A to Z [useful sites]
Topic links
A Animation, Archives and file
search, Assessment tools, Audio,
Audio conferencing,
B Books, Browsers,
C Caching, CGI, Cookies,
Colors and graphics,
D Databases, Design Resources,
Development Environments, Discussion
tools, Dynamic HTML,
E Email dat abasingg, Events,
Euromet,
G General computing,
H Helpers & Plug inss, HTML,
I Icons & ClipArt, Image
Processing, IRC,
J Java, Java beans, Java
books, Java : useful applets, Java
development tools,
Java examples, Java
Tuition, Java zines, javascript
M Magazines online, Maths,
Mirroring, Miscellaneous,
mSQL database, MUDS and MOOS,
N NLN Links,
P PERL & CGI,
R Registration Systems, Remote
Sensing Resources,
S Searching the Web, Servers,
Server log analysis tools, Server-Side
Includes, Starting points
Streaming servers, Style
Sheets, SQL,
T Teaching Resources, Tcl/Tk,
U UMI Phase I projects, UNIX,
V Video, Video Conferencing,
VRML
W Windows and PCs
X XML & SGML
Searching the web
Search Engine Watch
Advanced
Searching: Tricks of the Trade
Register a domain name
About domain names
General Design Resource
Web Review
Design Resources List (Good !)
Creating better
graphics for the web (Web Review)
how to
use navigation icons - Web Review
Web style
at "Web Mastery"
List
of style related webzines
Yahoo
web design resources
Link Exchange
Corrosive Web Design
User Interface Engineering
Web Usability
Guidelines - Web Review
WebMaster OnLine
TechWeb
Netscape Developer's Edge
NetscapeDevEdge
Library
Top 100 Webmaster resources
Web Review :
Top 10 articles on Web Design
Copyright and
the web
Helpful links for
web builders
Legal Issues
for Webmasters at WebReview
Tricks
with transparent gifs and style sheets
Publish RGB, design resources
Frontier : integrated
system for producing web site,
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
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
perlWWW
Perl
CGI Scripts
Regular
Expressions
Perl
UF/NA
Perl Archive
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
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
CoolTalk Phone Book
CoolTalk
Help
CoolTalk
Download
Talker Central
Vosaic
Radio Studio
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
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
Tcl/Tk manual
Tclet
links
Tclet demos
The Tclet Archive
How to write Tclets
The TCL/TK site
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
HotJava 1.1
Opera
IE for Unix
IE
for Unix download
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
Register STK
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
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.