Computer Science
Internet Training Resources

Beginners Guide

• Basic Guide to the Internet
• Finding Information on the Net: A Tutorial -- from UC Berkeley
• Guide to Effective Internet Searching
• Internet Country Codes--what the 2-letter country codes in domain names refer to.
• Internet Errors Explained--what do those mysterious little messages, as in "Bad File Request" or "401--Unauthorized" mean, and what can you do about them?
• Internet Tools--explains archies, finger, whois, spiders, and other internet devices.
• Learn the Net-- a tutorial by syndicated technology columnist Larry Magid.
• The Living Internet -- developed by a computer science PhD, this site provides history and discussion of the Internet and Internet issues.

Evaluating and Citing Resources

• Internet Detective --- an interactive, online tutorial for using and evaluating the Net. Excellent.
• Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
• Guide To Evaluating Web Resources
• MLA Style -- a very nice presentation with electronic examples easily found.
• Snopes.com -- Find out if that urban legend on the web is true!
• Web Credibility Project -- from Stanford University, the site provides full-text of the on-going research project to "understand what leads people to believe what they find on the web".

Netiquette and Ethics of Internet Use

• Acceptable Use Policy Site--sample use policy statements.
• Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility--an organization concerned with ethics.
• E-Mail Etiquette--from Yale University
• Netiquette Guidelines
• Netiquette Home Page
• Web Etiquette for Information Providers

Searching the Net

• Comparing Search Engines--an excellent matching of the kind of question you have to the best search engine for that purpose.
• Internet Tutorials - an excellent selection of online tutorials on training students on internet research. 
• OAIster  -- finding pearls of academic sites not easily found by using search engines. Searchable by keyword or subject and more.
• Search Engines -- a chart of comparisons

A word of advice: every search engine is a little different. Some search more/different pages than others. Some search every word of every document, while others search only through titles and headers and site descriptions. Some allow sophisticated Boolean searches, and others do not.  There is surprisingly little overlap among the different engines.

• Searching: Tricks of the Trade

Tips for Web Page Construction  

• Barry's Clip Art - free graphics.

• Digital Web Magazine -- an online magazine for web designers with articles, reviews, tutorials, and other resources.

• Hexadecimal and HTML Named Color Charts

• Net Mechanic-- Its robot will check your site for broken links and miswritten html, rate your server's response time, and send you your results by e-mail.

• So you Wanna Design your Own Web Page? -- step by step, with special considerations.

• Texture Page -- a nice set of backgrouds.

• Web Design -- lots of how-to

• Web Developer's Journal

• Yale Web Style Guide--not free, but if you are serious you'll want this book.