Internet Resources for Class

Office 97

Downloads:
• Microsoft's Office Update Service

MOUS Prep:
• MOUS Net
• Officecert
• MOUS Newsgroup: sponsored by Microsoft

Access

• Access Tips from Microsoft
• Access Tips from BPro
• Tony's Access Page:Not a pretty site, but a great list of links.
• Smart Access: An Access Developers newsletter.
• comp.databases.ms-access: Access Newsgroup independent of Microsoft, generally for professional developers
• Microsoft-sponsored newsgroups: Choose from approximately 25 newsgroups dealing with different Access topics

Word

• Tips for switching to Microsoft Word from WordPerfect: Also very helpful.
• Microsoft-sponsored newsgroups: Choose from different specialized groups.
• WordTips: Emphasis on newsletters.
• Officecert: lots of links for Word resources.

Excel

• Excel Tips from Microsoft
• Dr. Excel
• Microsoft-sponsored newsgroups: There are about a dozen here to choose from.
• Accounting Advisors: Tips, Links, Formulas, VBA.

PowerPoint

• PowerPoint Tips
• PowerPoint Tips from Microsoft
• PowerPoint Newsgroup: sponsored by Microsoft

If you don't have access to a news server, you can always check out newsgroups on Deja.com.

Web Authoring

HTML Guides

• Help with HTML Basics: Geared to Geocities users.
• The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Web Technology
• World Wide Web Consortium: The granddaddy of all HTML sites, includes information on the current specifications of HTML,Cascading Style Sheets, links to other helpful and informative sites and lots more.
• Project Cool: My favorite site for HTML help. Provides clear tutorials starting with basic topics and also covering frames, JavaScript and lots more. That it's also a beautiful, well-organized site doesn't hurt either. Teaching by example is a good thing.
• Getting Started: Project Cool's beginners' tutorials.
• HTML Goodies
• Webmonkey: A service provided by Wired Magazine.

HTML Validation

• W3C

Color Codes

• One of Many Color Charts
• Another one

Site Design

• Web Pages That Suck: By the authors of the book of the same name.
• Yale Style Manual
• Creating Killer Web Sites: By the author of the book of the same name.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

• W3C
• Web Design Group

Places to Download GIFs & other goodies

• Free GIFs: But a butt-ugly site.
• More Free GIFs
• Animated GIFs
• ActiveX Controls

Newsgroups

• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.images
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.tools
• alt.html
• alt.html.writers
• alt.www.webmaster

CGI

• CGI Security
• CGI Programming with Perl
• Selena Sol's Public Domain CGI Script Archive
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi: newsgroup

Online Training

• SmartPlanet

Visual Basic

• VBThunder: Codelibrary, tutorials and a fantastic links page.
• Visual Basic Explorer
• Carl & Gary's Visual Basic Page: Links for VB Beginners
• Gary Beene's VB World: Links and instruction for VB Beginners, including an online tutorial
• Microsoft's VB Picks: Each month Microsoft showcases a handful of VB web sites
• Microsoft's own VB newsgroups
• comp.lang.basic.visual.misc: VB Newsgroup

Print Resources

Office 97

I really like the Step-by-Step books from the Microsoft Press.

Web Authoring

December, J., and N. Randall. 1995. The World Wide Web Unleashed.Indianapolis: Sams Publishing.

Siegel, David. 1997 Creating Killer Web Sites. Hayden Books.

Flanders, Vincent and Michael Willis. Web Pages That Suck: Learn GoodDesign by Looking at Bad Design.

Castro, Elizabeth. HTML4 for the World Wide Web. Peachpit Press.

Meyer, Eric. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly.

Lie, Hakon Wium and Bert Bos. Cascading Style Sheets : Designing for the Web. Addison-Wesley.

Databases

Hernandez, Michael. Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design. Addison-Wellesley.

Litwin, Paul, Ken Getz and Mike Gilbert. Access 97 Developer's Handbook. Sybex, 1997.

Smith, Robert and David Sussman. Beginning Access 97 VBA Programming. Wrox Press, 1997.

General Interest

Tufte, Edward. Visual Explanations : Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Graphics Press.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press.
Envisioning Information. Graphics Press.

Microsoft Corp. The Windows® Interface Guidelines for Software Design. Microsoft Press, 1995.