Index of Links for Tutorials
 

Explorer  /  FrontPage  /  Word  /  Excel  /  PowerPoint  /  Outlook

 


Guides to the Internet:

 

GLOSSARY OF TERMS
 

Dos Santos Online: Internet Terminology allows one to scroll through the terms or to link to a term quickly by selecting the first letter of the term
 

GENERAL INFORMATION
 

The Help Web guide covers e-mail, the web, FTP, and more
 

TUTORIALS
 

Internet 101 was created for those who just want to know the basics. The site will not bore the reader with too many details--"instructions for people who don't like to read instructions"
 

Internet Guides, Tutorials, and Training Information from the Library of Congress. The site also includes resources for Internet trainers.


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E-mail:

 

A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email includes information on intonation, gestures, status and formality.
 

How To Improve Your Email

Netiquette is network etiquette, the do's and don't of online communication

 

The World Wide Web (WWW):

 

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

 

WWW FAQ'S site allows one to ask questions if they aren't posted

 

SEARCH
 

The Spiders Apprentice: How to Use Web Search Engines is what the title suggests.
 

Search Engines Features Chart lists popular search engines and compares several different features.
 

Advanced Searching: Tricks of the Trade looks at advanced features professional researchers and librarians have been accustomed to using.


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Browsers:
 

InfoSeek's Browsers List includes links for networks, multimedia and utilities.
 

Lycos' Browser List

Yahoo's Browser List

 

News Groups:

 

Usenet Info Center Launch Pad includes pages for: browse, search, news, indexes and FAQ's.

Find Newsgroups has a search feature for discussion groups, including a link for "Learning the Basics."

 

List Servs:

 

 

Basic Web Design:

 

Web Page Design  includes questions one should consider about presentation, content, and locations to consider for publishing.
 

Creating Web Sites

Macintosh Web Development Pointers

Yale Style Manual (requires Netscape/IE 3.0 or higher) discusses page design, navigation structure, graphics, and multimedia.  The site includes an appendix.
 

C|Net - How To: Elements of Web Design discusses the overall site, individual pages, graphics and resources.

Web Page Basics includes "attention," content, navigation, and a tips section.


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Alignment & Tables:

 

David Seigal's Alignment Tips   Alignment Tips from Web World.
 

How Do I Make Tables?
 

Table Tutorials for presenting information, framing pictures, etc.

 

Frames:

 

Frames Tutorial  has common FAQ's, examples, hints, tips, and resources for the reader.

 

Colors:

 

Background Colors

 

216 Safe Colors for browsers has a download for the 216 (of 256 colors) that are compatible between Mac's and PC's.

 

Page Backgrounds:

 

Backgrounds, Textures, and Clipart Wonderland
 

Online Success includes a wealth of information in other areas, but the discussion of background textures is easily understood.
 

The Pixel Foundry Includes Photoshop techniques and tips, in addition to background archives,


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Bullets and Buttons:

 

Matterform  Clip art and Web-bullet philosophy.

Icon Paradise includes links to collections of backgrounds, icons, bullets, dividers, and animations.

 

Artwork:

 

MAKING IMAGES

 

The Pixel Foundry Tips on making web images and using Photoshop
 

WWW Authoring FAQ FAQ page about interlaced and Transparent GIFs.
 

COLLECTIONS OF ARTWORK

 

A+ Art Free clip art, backgrounds, bars, icons and animated GIFs
 

The Icon Depot Graphics for your homepage
 

Planet Earth Home Page - Images Section Art, Flags, Icons, Photographs, Maps
 

Randy's Icon and Image Bazaar Site for web images
 

Virtual Image Archive Categories including Art, Comics, Computer, Digital-Animation, Fantasy, General-Archives, Maps, Miscellaneous, Nature, New, Space and Usenet

 

ANIMATIONS
 

GIF Animation on the WWW Pages on GIF89a animations.


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Music & Video:

 

FAQ  Sound-related acronyms FAQ.
 

MPEG FAQ  Everything you have wanted to know.
 

Multi Media Music Information on audio usage on a website
 

Real Audio Page contains information for audio streaming.
 

Quicktime This link is the official Quicktime site.
 

Making movies on Desktop Computers  The site title describes what you will find.
 

Typography:

 

Choosing and Using Type Is a tutorial on type design.
 

Fonts FAQ for learning about fonts.

Bluedot's Typographic Is a type tutorial.
 

FTP: Publishing a WebPage

 

EFF's (Extended Guide to the Internet - FTP
 

How to use WS-FTP95 is an excellent step-by-step tutorial
 

FTP--File Transfer Protocol covers when & how, connecting to your home directory

 

Many of the sites came from the SSCA Web Design page and my Research Resources page for my students.


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EXPLORER 5.0
(browser)

FRONTPAGE
(website construction)

FAQ's for IE5 arranged in a Table of Contents format.

Using FrontPage includes how-to articles, tips & tricks, and a gallery of sites created by users of FrontPage
 

 

FrontPage in the Classroom includes, graphics, links, tables, forms, and more.
 

 

FrontPage 2000 discusses design of a site, adding content & features, connecting pages & publishing the site.
 

WORD
(word processing)
 

EXCEL
(spreadsheets)

Word 2000 discusses creating and formatting documents, outlines, collaborating, web discussions, templates, & creating web pages with Word.
 

Excel 2000 provides help for creating workbooks for attendance & grades, adding formulas to a worksheet, publishing on the web, and making web data interactive.

POWERPOINT
(multimedia presentations)

OUTLOOK
(e-mail program)
 

PowerPoint 2000 includes training for creating a presentation, customizing, adding graphics & multimedia content, as well as delivery methods.
 

Outlook 2000 explains the inbox, contacts, calendar feature, tasks,

PowerPoint In The Classroom is a simple, easily understood tutorial  for creating slides, making changes, adding images, charts, sounds, motions, and timing & rehearsal.

Outlook Express discusses personalizing, the address book, organizing mail, and customizing the Outlook window.


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This page maintained by David Warner and was last updated 09/18/2008.   Page created November 12, 2000.  Special thanks to Len Assante, Communication Department Chair, and Computer Services at Volunteer State Community College for hosting this site.