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Arts, Crafts (13-Nov-2007)
- Puzzle Master Inc -- Hundreds and hundreds of puzzles. Warning -- when you visit their web site your bound to buy something.
- Alley Cat Yarn, Beads and Clothing -- Lisa Hering in Sedona, Arizona, does it all. Check out her web site for rental property, photography, photographic art, Dancing Alpacas, her autobiography, beaded jewelry, clothing, knitted and croched tops, jackets, scarves, with matching outfits.
- Papier Mache -- Here you should find all you need to know about papier/paper mache.
- PCStitch -- Cross-stitch design software that allows you to create your own patterns. Create projects from scratch, or automatically convert photographs and other images.
- Magic Eye Inc -- The world of Stereograms on the computer -- a must visit web site --.
- John Rausch -- The world of puzzles. Lots of those can be made from wood.
- Neil Moffatt -- Neil Moffatt is a gentleman of many talents. I am fascinated by his 104 drawer cabinet. My wife now wants me to make something like that on top of her rolltop desk.
- SICO -- Look at the world of colours and the Feng Shui Palette.
- Jeanette Ardern Designs -- Cross stitch products.
- Link4U -- Fun and entertaining greetings and webcards.
- Yarn Tree -- Literally hundreds of items for counted cross stitch, needlework, & stitchery.
- Eva Rosenstand -- Eva Rosenstand/Clara Wæver is a Danish company where Jeannette gets many of her needlepoint works from. Not cheap, but excellent quality and always complete. Nordic Needle is the official Eva Rosenstand distributor for USA and Canada.
Consumer Issues, Online Shopping (21-Sep-2006)
- HowStuffWorks -- Learn how everything works.
- TopTenReviews -- In-depth software product reviews and comparisons. Good starting point when you are looking for new software.
- SoftMagic -- Canadian on-line shopping for consumer electronics and computer products. Fast and at the lowest prices.
- eHow.com -- Clear instructions on how to do just about everything. This web site is a must see!
- Better Business Bureau of Southern Alberta -- It is good to start here when you need a trade.
- Northern Credit Bureaus Inc, Canada -- Get your personal credit report, and check it once a year to protect yourself against identity theft. For an on-line report you pay, but it is free via regular mail.
- Equifax Canada or Equifax Credit Bureau, US -- Get your personal credit report, and check it once a year to protect yourself against identity theft. For an on-line report you pay, but it is free via regular mail.
- TransUnion Canada or TransUnion, US -- Get your personal credit report, and check it once a year to protect yourself against identity theft. For an on-line report you pay, but it is free via regular mail.
- CMA Consumer Sense -- The "do not contact consumer service" of Canadian Marketing Association is very useful in getting yourself removed for 3 years from their member companies' mail, phone and fax lists. While at the subject checkout Telemarketers --
Ways to Make 'Em Go Away.
- CNET Reviews -- Check this out before you buy, especially anything electronic, digital, computerized.
- Air Miles Canada -- Handy link when you are a collector.
- Chapters, Indigo, Coles, SmithBooks -- Canada's answer to Amazon.com.
- Digital Home Canada -- Canada's Monthly On line Source for the Smart Home. Sound, theater and computer.
- Costco Online -- Costco Wholesale (food and non-food) is in more countries than you think.
- UFA -- United Farmers of Alberta stores you find throughout Alberta.
- Epinions -- Before you buy anything... Get unbiased advice you can trust. Discover the right product for you. Find the best place to buy it.
- Consumer Reports online -- US edition. Unfortunately you have to subscribe to get to the real useful information.
- Amazon -- The biggest store for books, music and video.
Cultural, Literature (28-Feb-2007)
- Urban Legends and Folklores -- True/false and whatever else you are interested in.
- wikiHow -- A collaborative writing project to build the world's largest how-to manual.
- Wikipedia -- The Free Encyclopedia.
- wiseGEEK -- Clear Answers for Common Questions.
- Stage West Calgary -- Calgary's own dinner theatre with great buffets and great shows. Please note that Stage West enforces a semi-formal dress code.
- World War II Codes and Ciphers -- Way down in there is a virtual Enigma that you can work with your mouse. If you don't know what the Enigma is then this site is most likely not for you, or is it?
- The Library of Congress -- Facts, figures and history. I use it to find special books.
- Fact Monster -- Online almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia and homework help.
- Toastmasters International -- Toastmasters is the best way to improve your communication skills. Lose your fears of public speaking and learn skills that will help you be more successful in whatever path you've chosen in life. Join a local club, for example Shell Toastmasters in Calgary.
- CBC Radio - Vinyl Cafe -- I often listen to Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe when running errands on Saturday morning. Check out some of his stories under "Features".
- Urban Legends reference Pages -- True/false legends on a wide variety of topics.
- Jean Auel's Earth's Children -- Remember these books: the Clan of the Cave Bears, the Valley of Horses, the Mammoth Hunters, and the Plains of Passage? If not you better start reading. The long awaited 5th book, the Shelters of Stone, will be out on April 30th, 2002. The 6th and final book is also in preparation.
- Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra -- We are proud of our very own CPO here in Calgary.
- Southern Stardust Big Band -- And who said that the Big Bands are dead? Another cultural must when you are in Calgary.
- National Geographics -- My all time favourite.
- Britannica -- My favourite encyclopedia.
- AltaVista World -- Now this is something new. Online translation into another language. Try it.
Dutch Immigrants (7-Jan-2009)
- Dutch Canadian Club of Calgary -- When you are interested in bridge, klaverjas, leisure, billiard, choir, ladies auxilliary, or just some socializing in a Dutch atmosphere.
- Canada op zijn best -- Canada at its best, with links and informatie about Canada.
- Foothills Speed Skating Marathon Association -- Keep an eye on this web site for the annual Sylvan Lake Ice Marathon in February. Sylvan Lake is close to Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.
- Dutch Canadian Centre (Edmonton) -- Counterpart of the Dutch Canadian Club in Calgary.
- Moppen.net -- A Dutch site with good old fashioned Dutch/Belgium jokes.
- Dutch Canadian Business Club -- Located in Calgary. Even if you don't want to become a member they have interesting links to other websites that are worth a look at.
- The Little Dutch Girl -- Online shopping for those great Dutch products in Old Town Spring, Texas.
- Holland Shop -- Online shopping for those great Dutch products. Aimed at the Canadian market.
- Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) -- The site to visit when you are entitled to AOW or ANW payments from the Netherlands.
- Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep -- Wereld-wide Dutch Radio (English page).
- Publieke Omroep -- Stay in touch with the local Dutch radio, television and news.
- Holland Trade Shop -- Online shopping for those great Dutch products. Aimed at the USA market.
- Dutchies Abroad -- A must if you are interested in other typical "Dutch-American" and "Dutch-Canadian" web sites.
- Dutch Windmills from Zaanstreek -- If you like old Dutch windmills from the Zaanstreek then visit this web site!!!
- Holland Site -- HollandSite is de thuispagina voor Nederlanders in den Vreemde. Hier kunt u interessante links vinden naar het dagelijkse Hollandse leven. (HollandSite is the homepage for dutch people living overseas. It provides interesting links to the daily life in The Netherlands.)
- Wie zoekt wie? -- A good contact point when you are looking for a lost Dutch or Belgium friend or relative who left for another country with address unknown.
- De Telefoongids -- For that important Dutch phone number or address.
Financial (4-Apr-2005)
- Exchange Rates -- Currencies and convertion calculator for exchange rates. Graph of last days values using data from the Federal Reserve Bank.
Flight Simulation (7-Dec-2004)
- Fly Away Simulation -- Provides Flight Simulation Portals to the next generation of flight simulation news and information sites.
- MSFS Gateway -- The MSFS Gateway contains links to over 300 web sites offering a wide range of aircraft, scenery and other add-ons and downloads for Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS). It is regularly maintained and updated.
- Aviation Home Page -- Web site from Hal Stoen who got paid for almost 25 years to fly airplanes. During that time he was a flight instructor, flew charter, mail, commuter airline, and, for the last 18 years, he was a corporate pilot. Read his flight stories and his flight simulator tutorials.
- Pilot's Assistant -- The Pilot's Assistant is an Excel spreadsheet with useful calculations. The FS2002 Pilot's Assistant is a must read.
- Simviation -- Thousands of quality, free add-ons for Microsoft's Flight Simulator series - including FS2004, A Century of Flight, FS2002, CFS2, CFS3, Combat Flight Simulator, FS2000 & FS98!
- Microsoft Flight Simulator Century of Flight -- FS2004 is coming...
- Flightsim.com -- The World's #1 Flightsim Site.
Food, Recipes (9-Apr-2006)
Dutch Oliebollen at New Year's Eve.
- Cook's Palate -- The Cook's Palate cookbook software is for those interested in organizing recipes and making cookbooks for home, school, fundraising, professional promotions and much more. I have tried it myself, and find that it provides all the basic functions and has a very nice presentation. Personally I still prefer Living Cookbook, but if you need something simple that is easy to learn then Cook's Palate might be your answer.
- Cooks.com -- A very complete recipe site, with unit and diet calculators, nutrition facts, and forums.
- Living CookBook -- The best software for maintaining your own recipe database. Supports own recipes (with pictures), meal planner, nutritional analysis, grocery lists, inventory, publish cookbooks, import & export functions, and much more.
- McCormick -- Another nice site for recipes, spice encyclopedia, etc..
- Culinary Café -- Cooking for you. One of the better organized sites for looking up recipes. Has an excellent spice encyclopedia.
- Newlands Import Corporation -- Canadian Importers of Premium Rooibos Tea. Rooibos (red bush) Tea is grown in South Africa. The Premium (or 100%) Rooibos Tea is caffeine free and very high in anti-oxidants. Beside that, it just taste very good as well.
- Food Network's FoodTV.Com -- Gateway to Recipes, Entertaining, Chefs, Cooking, and Television.
Games, Lotteries (15-Sep-2006)
- Web Sudoku -- Billions of Free Sudoku Puzzles to Play Online, from easy to evil, traditional and many variations. Web Sudoku also supplies Sudoku puzzles for newspapers, magazines, Sudoku books and websites.
- Sudoku Online -- All you need to play Sudoku, from computer software to online help.
- World Bunco -- The World Bunco Association was chartered in 1996, and is dedicated to the organization, preservation, promotion and the expansion of Bunco group activity.
- Bunco Rules -- Rules for Bunco, Bunko, Bonco, Bonko.
- Lotto Lore -- Latest Canadian lottery results : 6/49, Super 7, Ontario 49, Lottario, Western 469, BC 49, plus more.
- Rebel Decade -- Decade 3.0 is a very good chess program and it's free, while on Fridays you play against the real Rebel 10!!!
- Mah Jongg WorldWide Web Site -- If now I only could win a game or two.
Genealogy (10-Jun-2008)
- Baby Names Pedia - etymology of names -- Concise name meanings, origins, usage, and maps of variants for first names.
- Genlias -- Excellent source for Dutch folks. Has civil registry (burgerlijke stand) records of the birth, marriage and death registries, some going back as far as 1788. This database is still a work in progress, but there is a lot already.
- Streekmuseum Oudheidkamer Reeuwijk -- Museum and history from the area around Reeuwijk, The Netherlands. They also have a genealogical ProGen database with over 100,000 names of some 400 families from that area. The web site is in Dutch.
- GedHTree -- GEDCOM to HTML, Elegant family tree on the Web.
- GeneaKnowHow.net -- To support your genealogical research in the Netherlands and Belgium. This site is mainly in Dutch, but has a huge list of references to other web sites of which some are in other languages.
- Cyndi's List -- Cyndi's list of Genealogy site on the internet.
- RootsWeb -- The oldest and largest FREE genealogy site supported by Ancestry.com.
- GenSource -- This site provides the online genealogist with databases to assist them with their research online.
- Ancestry.com -- The most popular genealogy and family history site.
- GeneaNet -- Genealogical Database Network. The free world network of users who use the Internet to search for their ancestors.
- GenForum -- Looking for a forum (news group) on a certain surname? Look no further, you found it!!!
- Dutch Genealogy Site -- Has several references to Dutch sites.
- FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service -- By far the most famous one. When you have a chance visit their library in Salt Lake City (Utah).
Government, Province, City, Law (27-Sep-2005)
Heraldry, Etymology (26-Nov-2008)
- Meaning of Names -- Browse through over 40,000 names, origins, and meanings from around the world.
- Heraldry on the Internet, Coats of Arms, Family Crests -- Excellent site to get started with your research.
- Think! Baby Names -- An online dictionary and reference guide on the origin and meaning of first names.
Includes popular, unusual, and unique baby names from around the world.
- Coat of Arms & Surname Histories by House Of Names -- Commercial site, but at least you can see if a Coat of Arms exist for your family.
- Behind The Name -- The etymology and history of first names.
- Heraldica -- New or seasoned, you will all find something useful on this web site!!!
- International Civic Arms -- Not useful for your personal coat of arms, but it is still worth a visit.
Medical, Health (18-Dec-2006)
- Healthopedia -- A medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources.
- Men at Midlife -- Very informative and serious web site concerning all aspects of the Male Menopause.
- Stroke-TIA.org -- An educational resource on stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA).
- Slack Incorporated -- An innovative, information, education and management company in Healthcare Specialty Areas.
- Canadian MedicAlert Foundation -- Please support this foundation; it may safe a life someday, and it might be yours.
- JAMA -- The Journal of the American Medical Association.
- Making the Connection -- Cholesterol and your heart.
- Hardin MD -- Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources.
- Sexuality and U -- Your link to sexual well-being.
- Health A to Z -- Search Engine for Health and Medicine.
- Medicine Net -- Medical information for diseases, treatments, procedures, drugs, etc..
- Web MD -- It does not make your doctor obsolete, but it provides lots of valuable information.
Model Railroading (24-Mar-2009)
- Modelrailway Hamburg, Germany -- For sure the largest and most beautiful model railway in the world.
- Peter's Model Railroading -- For when you are in the market to buy a train diorama.
- Trainboard.com -- Come board the train with TrainBoard.com for discussion forums and message boards for everything railroading. Featuring forums for specific railroads, all scales of model railroading, and anything related to trains and railroads.
- Tall Pine Railroad -- With your monitor at 1024 x 768 resolution and a good sound card you are bound to enjoy this high standard model railroad site.
Phone, Yellowpages, e-Mail, snail-Mail (9-Mar-2009)
- Infobel -- That is "bel" with one "l"! The whole world at your finger tips.
- World Telephone Directories -- Gives you access to white and yellow pages of most countries in the world, plus interesting other info of those countries such as postal codes. Pitty that the main web page is only in Dutch.
- White Pages -- When you are looking for a person or business in Canada, but also other countries.
- Super Pages -- When you are looking for a person or business in Canada, and other countries.
- InfoSpace -- Lots of stuff, but also White Pages, Yellow Pages, e-mail, etc. for various countries.
- Canada Post -- Information about personal and business mail services in Canada.
- Canada 411 -- When you are looking for a person or business in Canada.
- Canada Toll Free -- When you are looking for that toll free number in Canada.
- Canada Yellowpages -- When you are looking for a business or service in Canada, and the U.S.A.
Real Estate (13-Mar-2002)
Religious, Spiritual, Harmony (21-Sep-2003)
- Tenboche Monastery -- The official page for the Tengboche Monastery Development Project about Buddhism, ecology and sustainable tourism in the Sherpa region of Mount Everest, Nepal.
- Feng Shui Palace -- Feng shui is a way to mindfully organize your environment so that it fully supports you in life. This site educate those who wish to take part in arranging, de-cluttering, balancing and organizing their living and working spaces to bring harmony into their lives.
- One Country -- The online newsletter of the Bahá'í International Community.
- GaitherNet -- The Nashvill Network television airs every two weeks a 1-hour gospel program. I like their music and this is Bill and Gloria Gaither's website.
- The Bahá'í World -- Official site of the Bahá'í Faith.
Space, Speed (21-Aug-2006)
- Trucknet -- The site is in Dutch, but if you like truck pictures and trip stories then this web site is a must. This site belongs to my grand-nephew.
- Stellarium Astronomy Software -- Stellarium is a free software available for Windows, Linux/Unix and MacOSX. It renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time using OpenGL. With stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
- Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Check for example their Earth Lights image to see who is wasting the precious resources of this world.
- Kennedy Space Center -- Enormous amount of information about history and shuttle launches.
- Shell's Ferrari Formula One -- The place to go if you like the fast track.
Techie & other Crazy Stuff (11-Jun-2008)
Travel, Restaurants, Maps (11-May-2009)
- SeatGuru -- The ultimate source for airplane seating, in-flight amenities, and airline information. Be informed before you book your seats.
- Wonders of the World TV -- There are more than seven you know.
- The Highwood - Applied Management, Hospitality & Tourism - SAIT -- You are lucky if you can get reservations at The Highwood restaurant on the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology campus where the future chefs get their education from the world's greatest. Five stars for a three star price.
- AllHostel.com -- World wide (youth) hostels and backpackers information.
- Travel Alberta -- Four new way to travel Alberta.
- PaSu Farm -- PaSu farm is a truly unique combination of Restaurant, Fine Dining, a Boutique with Quality Handcrafts, and of course a working Farm.
- Chef and Restaurant Database -- Not all restaurants are there, but who knows, your favourite chef might be listed.
- Bears Den Restaurant -- The ultimate dining experience. Located in Bearspaw just North-West of Calgary.
- Ice Hotel Canada -- Tour or spend a night in the Canada's Ice Hotel close to Quebec City. Their fifth season is from January until April 2005. Don't miss it.
- Expedia.ca -- Flights, charters, hotels, cars, vacation packages, maps, destination information, everything in travel.
- Lonely Planet -- Travel Advisory, especially look at their Travel Ticker.
- Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Canada) -- Travel Assistence, especially look at their Country Travel Reports.
- National Anthems -- National anthem music and words, and the flags of all 192 countries.
- Custom Woolen Mills -- A working museum located near Carstairs, Alberta. They have been producing woolen and exotic fiber products on their unique industrial revolution machinery for over 25 years. Their products include: carded wools, rovings, spinning rolls, batts, wool yarns, knitting kits, socks, comforters, mattress pads and hand-woven blankets. Visit them and take a tour, browse through their showroom and find out more about wool, and how they process it.
- Hostels -- Fined a hostel in 100 nations, over 600 cities, worldwide. You don't have to be young or a backpacker. Simple, very affordable, and meet lots and lots of interesting people.
- Hostelling International - Canada -- Hostelling, especially in Canada. (My wife and I did a three week bicycle trip through the middle and south of Holland in 1988, while mainly staying in hostels. Although we were well in our 40th then, we enjoyed every minute of it.)
- General Motors of Canada -- In Canada and looking for Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Buick, Cadillac, Chevy Truck, GMC, Saturn, Saab, Isuzu or Hummer? Start here.
- Greater Toronto Airport Authority -- The best place to find that important travel information.
- Amsterdam, Schiphol Airport -- Your gateway into Europe.
- Hello BC -- Planning a trip to British Columbia? Then this site is an absolute must.
- FoundLocally -- Provides local information, tips, photos, maps, and now, events and jobs for British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario.
- Sedona Vacation Homes -- Tell them that you found them on my web-site!!!.
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump -- Just north-west of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, is one of the world's oldest, largest and best preserved buffalo jump. An absolute must when you are in the area.
- Tourism Calgary -- Calgary and the Canadian Rockies Travel Guide.
- Calgary International Airport -- I use it mainly for realtime arrival and departure information.
- Getting Through Customs -- Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: How to do business in 60 countries. Fascinating web site.
- National Tax Refund Service -- Visiting Canada as a non-resident (read tourist or visitor)?. You can get some of the tax back!!!
- MapQuest -- Driving Directions, Maps & Live Traffic Reports.
- Canada - WorldWeb Travel Guide -- THE site to the novice and seasoned traveler in this great country.
- Canada's Restaurant Guide -- Find the local eateries of 20 centres across the country.
Vineyards and Wine (12-Sep-2005)
- Wine Press Northwest -- Their passion Pacific Northwest Wines from Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Idaho.
Our 2002 British Columbia wine tour: Cedar Creek, Gehringer Brothers, Hawthorne Mountain, Hester Creek, Thornhaven, Tinhorn Creek, Wild Goose.
Our 2005 British Columbia wine tour: Desert Hills, Domaine Combret, Hillside, Benchland, Mistral, Spiller, Wild Goose.
Weather, Time (16-Aug-2003)
Web Browsers (24-Nov-2004)
- Firefox -- Discover the Web -- Firefox is the new, small, easy to use, and yet fast web browser from the Mozilla team. CNet said: Feature-studded and secure Mozilla Firefox 1.0 is a safer (more secure), better choice for Internet browsing. What I like most is the tabbed browsing.
Web Graphics, Flash, SVG (30-Oct-2002)
- GIF Construction Set Professional -- Construct your own animated GIF files. Look at my example at the bottom of this page.
- Adobe SVG Zone -- Discover the future of Web graphics: Scalable Vector Graphics. Download Adobe's SVG viewer plug-in and check out their instructions pages.
- KevLinDev -- Good tutorial on SVG.
Web Programming (10-Sep-2004)
- DevGuru -- Ward-winning web developers' resource: over 3000 pages of quick reference guides, tutorials, knowledge base articles, Ask DevGuru, useful products. I personaly like the Javascript reference very much.
- The Code Project -- Your place for free C++, C# and .NET articles, code snippets, discussions, news and the best bunch of developers on the net.
- CodeGuru -- C++ and much more.
- Danny Goodman -- Well know author of several works on JavaScript. Web site has nice examples as well.
- Boutell.com -- OpenFAQ to the Rescue.
- MySQL database -- My database of choice, and the only one provide by my ISP. Sure it misses several functions of the great databases, but it is sufficient for the average web application.
- PHP, Hypertext Preprocessor -- PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. I find it easier to use than for example Perl.
- The Definitive Javascript Resource -- Everything you always wanted to know about Javascript. Plenty of examples as well.
- Perl -- Everything about Perl programming including CPAN.
Web Search Engines (4-May-2005)
- All 4 One Meta Search -- Combines the power of some of the worlds best search engines into one. Provides an interesting grouping feature. Give it a twirl.
- Google -- Returns Web pages, but what is so unique is that they are ranked in order of importance or popularity. My personal favourite, and currently the best search engine.
- Ask Jeeves -- Another famous saesarch engine.
- MetaCrawler -- Provides the capability to use several popular search engines at the same time while only entering the search string once.
- Alta Vista -- Focus on Web pages. Returns excerpts. Does not return to much information. Rather difficult to narrow down the boolean search. There are specific flavours for many different countries.
- HotBot -- Returns lots of information, but the power searching tools require some time to learn. Comprehensive and fast.
- Yahoo! -- Everyones favourite. Returns short summaries and certainly a good first starting point.
- Excite -- Concentrates on Web sites and discussion groups. Gives site summaries and you dig deeper at the site yourself. Apparently AOL NetFind uses the same engine.
- Web Crawler -- Bit spartanic in what it returns, but almost as broad a base as Lycos.
Web Security (10-Jul-2003)
- Bugnosis -- Web bud detector from Privacy Foundation.
- Lavasoft -- Providers of the free Ad-aware 5.82. Ad-aware is a free multi spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware and scumware components and lets you remove them safely. It is updated frequently.
- Anonymyzer.com -- Online Privacy Services. Put up your shields and then learn "What data am I revealing right now?".
- JunkBusters -- How to protect your privacy from commercial invasions.
- Spam Cop -- Excellent site if you are sick and tired of receiving SPAM and other unsolicited e-mail. Especially their free service provided via spamcop.net is very useful or simply forward a SPAM e-mail to spamcop@spamcop.net for automatic processing.
Web Standards, Training, Literature (29-Apr-2007)
- Annoyances.org -- The most complete collection of information assembled for and by actual users of Microsoft Windows.
- Max Design -- Great place for creative lists and floating of anything on a web page using the power of CSS.
- Tucows Downloads -- 1000's of the world's best Internet applications & games.
- The Web Standards Project (WaSP) -- The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
- LivingInternet.com -- Comprehensive source of information about the Internet; a must visit.
- Easter Egg Archive -- Amusing tidbit that creators hid in their creations. They could be in computer software, movies, music, art, books, or even your watch. There are thousands of them, and they can be quite entertaining, if you know where to look.
- PC Magazine -- The independent guide to technology. Where I look first before I buy.
- Yale Style Manual -- Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites.
- Annotated XML Specification -- Based on the specification of 10-Feb-1998, but still useful to understand the concepts.
- Web Developer's Virtual Library -- Encyclopedia of Web Design Tutorials, Articles and Discussions.
- W3Schools Online Web Tutorials -- Here is where you learm about HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XLS, DTD, DOM, JavaScript, VBScript, etc., etc.. The best part is that it is not only good, but it is free as well. Highly recommended.
- The Bare Bones Guide to HTML -- Nice quick reference guide to HTML with useful references to other sites.
- Bob Cerelli's Windows Pages -- The main goal of this site is to provide clear, accurate and easy to understand information regarding Windows95/98/2000.
- W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium -- THE site if it comes to standards and future direction on HTML, CSS, DOM, XML, SVG, etc..
- HotWired Webmonkey -- Another neat site for WebSite developers. Excellent tutorials if you are new to the business and need a kick-start.
- World Wide Web FAQ -- Useful resource for novices and seasoned HTML developers.
- Yahoo! List of Web Development Resources -- Close to 1,000 links to Web resources. I did not checked them all...
- internet.com -- The E-Business and Internet Technology Network.
Web Tools (25-Nov-2004)
- Fourth Ray Software -- A small business based in Houston that just published their FRSLinkCheck program, a tool to check the validity of external links on your web pages. I have been using it since their previous version.
- Macromedia Flash Player download -- With Macromedia Flash Player, you can view the best animation and entertainment on the Web.
- Adobe SVG download -- Get ready to download Adobe® SVG Viewer 3 and experience the next generation of data-driven, interactive, and personalized graphics on the web.
- Adobe Acrobat products -- Which Adobe® Acrobat® product is right for you?
- Gibson Research Corporation -- Interesting tools.
- Macromedia - HomeSite -- As far as I am concerned HomeSite is one of the best Web design tools. Try it, and when you buy it you get PaintShop Pro as a free bonus; at least I did with version 4.5.2. Version 5.0 is available as well, but I have not tried it yet.
Web Miscellaneous (31-Aug-2002)
- TUCOWS -- The first place I look when I need a software solution. Mostly shareware at a modest price, but sometimes you will find a freeware gem.
- Download The Webshots Desktop -- Add colour to your day and desktop. Claims to be the most popular desktop wallpaper and screen saver on the Net!
- IT Buyer's Network -- To locate IT products (hardware, software, services), some of them even with a review and rating.
- FastPDF -- Fast PDF is a web service that converts Microsoft Word documents into PDF files. Using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader others can access your document regardless of their exact hardware or software.
- Favicon.com -- Create favicon.ico files to customize the marketing logo in Internet Explorer's favorites/bookmarks using their free online java icon editor.
Western Heritage (3-Apr-2005)
- The Western Connection -- Western art and design, cowboy poetry and humour, cowboy music.
- Western Heritage -- Yankee heaven has profiles on the Old West: gunmen, lawmen, ghost towns, and much, much more. Features also great background music. Pitty that they have to spoil it all with those annoying pop-up windows -- a very immature attitude.
Whisky (whiskey) (22-Sep-2008)
- Malt Madness -- When you are interested in single malt whisky then this web site is for you. From beginner's guide to distillery data, and rating lists. It has also links to Malt Maniacs and WhiskyFun.com.
- The Scotch Blog -- An online news and commentary site focused solely on the subject of whisky and primarily on the Scotch whisky industry.
