This is a list of external links to pages with information on topics covered in the tutorials on computer use. This is an excellent resource for improving your understanding of various aspects of computer technology and usage.
Basics of Computer Use
Using the Internet
Creating for the Internet
File Types (back to the top)
- File extensions
- Office Applications
- Multimedia Knowledge base
- Image Viewers
- Multimedia Players
- Compression
- What is an Operating System? (back to the top)
- What it is and how it works
- Reviews
- Different Operating Systems
- Using Operating Systems
- Introduction to the Internet (back to the top)
- Getting Connected (back to the top)
- Browsers (back to the top)
- What's a plug-in? (back to the top)
- Navigating the Internet (back to the top)
- Search Engines (back to the top)
- WebQuest (back to the top)
- Dodge, B. J. (2000, June). Thinking Visually with WebQuests (online).
Presentation at the National Educational Computing Conference, Atlanta,
GA. http://edweb.sdsu.edu/Webquest/tv/#
- About WebQuests, http://edweb.sdsu.edu/Webquest/searching/specialized.html
- Rubric for WebQuest evaluation, http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/searching/fournets.htm
- Find appropriate Webquests in your content area, http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest_collections.htm
- How do you construct a WebQuest? http://webquest.sdsu.edu/roadmap/index.htm
- Master a search engine: Four NETS for better searching, http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/searching/fournets.htm
- Use resources off the beaten path, Specialized search engines and directories,
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/Webquest/searching/specialized.html
- E-mail (back to the top)
- What's a "Web Page" made of? (back to the top)
- Web Graphics (back to the top)
- A good interactive HTML tutorial for beginners, http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html
- An extensive site for all levels of web developers, http://www.stars.com/WebRef/Help/Begin.html
- Here is the official site for the folks who decide the standards for HTML,
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp
- A good basic explanation of how HTML handles basic text, http://www.stars.com/Authoring/HTML/Text/Fonts.html
- This site includes tips and tricks for Photoshop. Tip #35 tells how to
use the Photoshop offset filter to create seamless tiles to use for a background.
http://www.mccannas.com/pshop/photosh0.htm
- A site which offers clip art and buttons to download, and instructions
for how to save the free buttons for your own use. http://www.prodraw.net/button/
- Here is a great site if you have ANY questions about how a scanner works
or how to get the most out of your scanner. http://www.scantips.com/
- This is a link to an "online tool" which helps you to build .gif images
as well as gif animation. http://www.gifworks.com/
- Here is a shareware gif animator for PC. http://www.rocketdownload.com/Details/Grap/giffy.htm
- And here is a very good but inexpensive gif builder for PC. http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html
- This link goes to a good example of how higher rates of jpeg compression
produce more noticeable artifacts. http://www.landiss.com/compression.htm
- More than you'll ever want to know about jpegs, http://www.jpeg.org/public/jpeghomepage.htm
- A general article on how compression works, http://www.howstuffworks.com/file-compression.htm
- This link will give you basic info about organizing and storing your digital
photos. http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Farchive%2Fl0701%2F39l01%2F39l01%2Easp
- Here is a link to a nice sample palette which can be imported into a paint
program. http://www.killersites.com/1-design/index.html
- This is a web-safe color chooser, http://www.xs4all.nl/~rbrouwer/websafe/Data/Start.html
- Here is a description of the math involved in web-safe colors, http://cis2.cuyamaca.net/rossbowen/CIS212/report/default.html
- This WebMonkey article chronicles "The Death of the Websafe Palette."
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a.html
- This site contains links to many sites offering free graphics for your
web site. http://www.clip-art.com/
- Here is a link to a site offering thousands of little gif animations for
free, along with how-to. http://www.gifanimations.com/
- A link to a web site with over 2500 free use stock photos, http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
- A user friendly guide to web graphics, http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/image_formats.html#44
- How to decide which format, http://acomp.stanford.edu/acpubs/Docs/graphic_file_formats/
- Another study of how gif differs from jpeg, http://www.siriusweb.com/tutorials/gifvsjpg/
- This links to a good explanation of the difference between CMYK and RGB
color space. http://www.pixelphoto.com/html/rgb_cmyk.html
- A good explanation of "raster," http://www.clienthelpdesk.com/dictionary/rastergraphic.html
- An article about vector graphics and how and when they will be more in
evidence on the web. http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/12/index0a.html
- This page gives a good description of all sorts of image, movie, and sound
file types. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2160/fformats/fformats.htm
- A page all about PNGs, http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/
- A web site full of definitions and descriptions for all different sorts
of graphics files, http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/
- A page with hundreds of file extensions and what they mean, http://filext.com/
- Acquiring Web Graphics (back to the top)
- Web Page Editors (back to the top)
- Who decides what HTML looks like? http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
- The HTML Writers Guild, especially good resources page, http://www.hwg.org/
- A Beginner's Guide to HTML, http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
- The "HTML Goodies" page, http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
- Webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource, http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/
- The Web Attack free wysiwyg editors page, http://www.webattack.com/freeware/webpublish/fwwysiwyg.shtml
- Google's guide to free wysiwyg editors, http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Authoring/HTML/WYSIWYG_Editors/
- Dreamweaver tips at About.com, http://webdesign.about.com/cs/dreamweavertips/
- Dreamweaver tips from SmartWebby, http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/dreamweaver_tips.asp
- The DreamweaverFever site, http://www.dreamweaverfever.com/pain/
- Macromedia's Dreamweaver Support Center, http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/
- A Front Page user's community, http://www.outfront.net/
- Adobe's GoLive tutorials page, http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/golive.html
- MacDesign on Adobe GoLive, http://www.macdesignonline.com/golive.html
- Teach yourself Adobe GoLive, http://www.golivein24.com/tips/
- Teacher training
K-12 sponsored by Macromedia (back to the top)