Thigpen's WWW references and utilities...

What's WWW all about ...

First, WWW stands for World Wide Web but rather than reinvent the wheel, I've composed a set of links that already define how to get introduced to the World Wide Web. If at any time you seem to get swamped by WWW's terminology you can reference a small glossary. An article from the New York Times helps explain why the WWW thrives at over a 300,000% growth.

Some hopefully useful FAQ's ...

  1. WWW's FAQ
  2. Mosiac's General FAQ
  3. Mosaic's FAQ
  4. Mosaic 2.0's FAQ
  5. The comp.infosystems.www newsgroup FAQ
  6. Mosaic Interface FAQ

About Servers ...

  1. NCSA
  2. CERN
  3. Plexus
  4. GN. Here's how to install.

About Clients ...

  1. Mosaic
  2. tkWWW

About Hypertext markup Language ...

  1. HTML Specification Review Materials
  2. A Beginner's Guide to HTML
  3. How HTML works
  4. A quick reference card and list of special characters
  5. There are good and bad ways of writing html code
  6. Plus, a Style Guide for Online Hypertext
  7. JHU/APL's WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation - ver 1.5
  8. Other various server/html tools
  9. HTML Widget Documentation

About Uniform Resource Locators/Identifiers ...

  1. URL
  2. A quick reference card

Some informative pointers ...

  1. Guide to Cyberspace 6.1: Contents
  2. Crash course on writing documents for the Web
  3. Lagoon: a WWW cache
  4. World-Wide Web proxies
  5. The Best of WWW Contest
  6. Requirements for HTTP protocol
  7. Tools for WWW providers
  8. Transparent Background Images
  9. Transparent colors in GIF89a
  10. Getstats
  11. wusage 3.0.2
  12. HTML converters
  13. html-helper-mode
  14. Mosaic And WAIS Tutorial
  15. A List of HTML Tags
  16. How To Set Up Index Search
  17. Using ISINDEX for server-side searches
  18. Letting Users Search your Web Pages
  19. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
  20. HTML+ (Hypertext markup format)
  21. Mosaic User Authentication Tutorial
  22. About WWW NNTP and an example
  23. WWWW - the WORLD WIDE WEB WORM
  24. Using Mosaic by Remote Control
  25. NCSA httpd/Mosaic: Using PGP/PEM auth
  26. Index of NCSA httpd documentation - search
  27. Executing Shell Scripts Inside Mosaic
  28. Mosaic for X version 2.0 Fill-Out Form Support
  29. CGI Environment Variables and the bin archive
  30. NCSA httpd Image Mapping
  31. Uniform Resource Locators: BNF
  32. rtf2html site
  33. A Simple CGI Email Handler
  34. First WWW Conference
  35. The Best of WWW Contest
  36. World-Wide Web: An Illustrated Seminar
  37. Chemical On-line Presentations and Talks using World-Wide-Web
  38. Internet Resources Meta-Index
  39. The Hyperlatex package
  40. The LaTeX2HTML Translator
  41. WIT - W3 Interactive Talk

Here are some scripts along with some documents in the FTP site. Also, here's a list of X resources. Finally, a quick note about security

So let's get started ... here's a link to The World Wide Web Wanderer and World Wide Web Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders

thigpen@ccs.neu.edu