Wayne's Annotated Links

contains reference information on HTML web design, cable modems, MIDI and music, typography, and miscellaneous neat stuff. Even has a few bits of Windows information.

Last modified 10/17/98

HTML and other Web Stuff

• How to do it.
• The HTML Reference Library is implemented as a Windows help file. Very neat. Very complete. (However, read the FAQ on a possible CTL3D32.DLL glitch.) U.S. Mirror site.
• Information on the notorious CTL3D32.DLL, which affects a lot of other programs, too.
• I use Luckman's WebEdit Pro for all my HTML editing, with the HTML Reference Library for HTML documentation. Sorry that the HTML Reference includes a CTL3D32.DLL detour, but blame Microsoft for erecting such a house of cards. WebEdit is payware--scroll down a bit for some freeware editors.
• Yale Web Style Guide. Most excellent.
• HTML 3.2 Specification (current, i.e., v. 3.x browsers) and HTML 4.0 Specification (v. 4.x browsers) from The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
• BrowserWatch - Browser Stats shows which Web Browser is the most popular. Microsoft is gaining!
• HTMIDX is my program to index HTML files located on your own computer. Now indexes MIDI files.
• TXT2HTML is my program to convert ASCII text files into HTML.
• FILTER is my program to fix problems with ASCII text files, like displaying as double spaced.
• Several sites that explain how NetScape wrangles colors:
  • The 256 colors of Netscape,
  • Victor Engel's No Dither Netscape Colors. (More color related links.)
  • Demonstration of font colors.
  • Non-dithering color table with dynamic RGB display. (Probably should not use it if you are using Windows 3.1.)
• And then there's this: CGSD - Gamma Correction Home Page.
  
  
• Hotwired's "Webmonkey" index of reference articles.
• Microsoft's Site Builder is a site for web developers. Lots of valuable free stuff!
• A Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines. Be told!
• Tune up your web site at the Web Site Garage. C'mon in! New!
• Kim Komando's Komputer Klinic
• Webmaster Reference Library has some good information on maintaining Web sites, as does The Web Developer's Virtual Library.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Enabling Extremely Rapid Navigation in Your Web or Document is an excellent article. Even better; he now has a complete site of articles. Make sure to check this one out.!
  
  
• Art and the Zen of web sites.
• Web Review web design magazine is back.
• Dave Winer's scripting.com says what's going on. Read the writing on the wall.
• Newshub--Technical News sorted by time.

• WS_FTP is an excellent FTP file transfer program.
• NetTerm is a good Telenet client.
• JASC publishes Paint Shop Pro, which is a great graphics program. Very fast and handy. It may be all that you need to create web graphics.
• MetaCreations has all kinds of power graphics tools.
• Use the GIF Construction Set to make animated GIF images.
• NotePad+ is a freeware replacement for the Windows 95 NotePad. Much better!
• Programmer's File Editor is a great file editor for, um, programmers. And it is freeware!
• TextPad is a great general purpose text editor. Shareware ($27).
• Archne is a graphical (mostly) HTML 3.2 browser that will run on a 640k 8088! Only in America? NOT!
  
  
• The Navas 28,800-56K Modem FAQ and 56K.COM 56K Modem Home Page: K56flex and x2 will get you up to speed.
• Internet Traffic Report New!
• Internet Weather Report(tm)
• Boardwatch Isp Info
• Iomega Jaz Problems.
  
  
• Donald Knuth's home page.
• Don Lancaster's The Guru's Lair.
• John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer.
  
  
• "Many people think Xanadu was an attempt to build the World Wide Web. On the contrary: the World Wide Web was exactly what we were trying to prevent." -Ted Nelson.
  
  
• Photo.net.
  The Web Tools Review.
• More than A few scanning tips.
• How do they do that with HTML?
• The Pixel Foundry
  
  

Remember, dial-up telephone modems are an abomination. Jamming digital data packets through analog voice circuits is the worst of both worlds. And modems know this. Just listen to the horrible hissing and screeching they make every time we force them to do it. -Bob Metcalfe



Albany, NY

• Official Albany, NY RR technical support page. (accessible to Albany RR users only.)
• Cable Modem Help.

• Ed Schwab's RoadRunner info
• Getting Your Cable Modem Working With Windows for Workgroups Using Microsoft's TCP/IP Stack
• Road Runner in Albany allows residential customers to connect up to three computers to the cable modem with standard Ethernet. Works great if you connect the modem through the hub's "uplink" port, or use a "crossover" cable for the modem connection.
• Microsoft Windows 95 Security Tips For Users Connected to the Internet via Cable Modem.
• Networking information from Winfiles.com). (Formerly Windows95.com..

• www.CableModemInfo.com is "The source for Cable Modem/xDSL Links and Information."
• PH Net - Cable Modems is another help page.
  • PH Net Main Page has more computer tips.

• How to set up Road Runner on a Network is excellent advice from a San Diego RR user. Recently updated to be applicible to Albany users.
  
  

• Tweak your bandwidth But be careful! (Involves editing your registry, which is dangerous if you aren't familiar with what is going on.)
• RoadRunner Coast-to-Coast
• Road Runner San Deigo FAQ Note that this is for the San Deigo RR service. Some of their policies and procedures are different than Albany's.
• Internautics New England Media One Cable Modem FAQs.
• Phil Karn's San Deigo RR page.

• Supernews Internet Connectivity Page. Includes a test of the Albany, NY Road Runner connection.
• Internet Traffic Report.
• Internet Weather Report(tm)

• Official Time Warner Road Runner Information
• Time Warner Cable: Road Runner Another Official RR info site.

• Cable Modem Info Center
• Cable Modem Resources on the Web

• FTP OnNet (info about y2k compliance of OnNet TCP/IP stack installed by RR.)
• TUCOWS The Ultimate Collection of WinSock Software
• Stardust WinSock Labs. (Has links to WinSock references.)
• Ositis Software. WinProxy provides additional security for cable modem users.
• Wingate
• Trumpet Firesock
• Monolith Internet Services, Intl. Free domain names.
• Toshiba Multimedia Systems Division Cable modems

• Windows 95 Updates and Utilities from Microsoft. Are you up to date?

  The links below now require a one-time only free registration from Microsoft. (To better serve your needs....) When you fill out the form, it is probably a good idea to choose the advanced search option. Also, pay attention to the "spam-me" (email information) check box.
  Microsoft Downloadable Files Read More Information files carefully!

  • Windows 95 Updates and Utilities
  • Windows 3.x and all earlier versions Updates and Utilities

• Ziff Davis Help! A lot of "how to fix your computer" information.

• Break the Bandwidth Barrier Byte Magazine. Excellent article.
• CNET article on cable modems.
• Wired for Speed. Windows Magazine

• Introduction to the Signposts (1990-2725AD).
• The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension
• Facemaker.
• FLICK LIVES! Jean Shepherd Web Site.

• Belt Sander Drag Racing.
• The Infamous Exploding Whale.
• Brian's Excellent Images.
• WWW Artists Consortium Home

• The The Monopoly Clock "tracks the count-down to the final and complete monopolization of the technology and communications industries by Microsoft...." A part of the Say No to Monopolies Boycott Microsoft page.
• "How Microsoft is Building a Global Monopoly."
• Stop the persecution of Bill Gates and Microsoft. An alternative viewpoint, part of capitalism.org.

• See Walter Miller's page for a real slice of life.
• Shell's site has a remarkable discussion area what contains links to prominent environmental groups, like Greenpeace. Breaks new ground in corporate responsibility.
• San Francisco Gate contains the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner. Refreshing cheeky approach to news.
• Salon Magazine's pretty nifty.
• Suck.com has daily commentary on the state of the Web and other cultural matters, as does The Netly News.
• The Drudge Report has it all.
  
  
• TV Hole: "where cultural guano gets flushed."
• Visit this special version of Yahoo!, or the enhanced CNN or News.com. (Here's how it works.)
• Keep up with the latest web enhancement.

• The Game of Life. In Java.
• Sign in a Majorcan shop entrance: "Here speeching American." Other examples of Lost in the Translation.
• Useless WWW Pages. No, they're not all useless.
• The Thinker is The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco online museum with over 60,000 images online.
• Free books! See Project Gutenberg for thousands of books available on line. (The HTML sometimes doesn't work--you might have to root around in the ftp archives.) Also see Books on the Internet.
  
  
• Make sure to visit our own WSWHE BOCES Central Web Page Great Educational links on their Educational Links page.
• The American School Directory has web pages for all the schools in the country. Uses an IBM "Deep Blue" class of computer as a server.

• Gerald Ross's "arrangement of Mankind's Greatest Hits--All songs recorded on a MIDI Guitar. Great!
• The music of Jeff Lawson.
• Bruce DeBoer's page has a fine collection of original Celtic compositions with pictures and commentary.
• GaryW0001 has sequenced an excellent collection of big band music.
• John Roache has made some great ragtime sequences.
• Lamar's Jazz Junction.
  
  
• The Classical MIDI Archives has a lot of classical music.
• Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America.
• Taylor's Traditional Tunebook.
• The Digital Traditions Folksong Database Search Page contains thousands of folk song lyrics.
• The Ragtime Home Page has a lot of information about ragtime music, including many MIDI files.
• Guitar Players: MIDI Classics is a commercial site specializing in MIDI support for the classical guitarist.
• MIDI File Central "The Ultimate MIDI file Archive."

• The MIDIFarm has lots of resources. Great tutorials and reference articles.
• Mario's Music Links is a good general purpose reference site, a bit more orientated towards music, rather then towards technical issues.
• The Synth Zone has more resources, with a particular emphasis on synthesizer information.
• Monster MIDI New Links has good links.

• Music Books Plus Carries a lot of books of interest to musicians.
• Hal Leonard Online Sheet music, music books, software and video.
• Musician's Friend Amps, guitars, rack gear, MIDI, instructional books and videos, etc.
• Guitar Center More gear.

• Yamaha is making a big push on integrating MIDI with the web. See their MIDIPLUG home page for LOTS of information, including their "Soft Synthesizer" plugin. Also has lots of tutorials.
• Roland's line of Sound Canvas synthesizers are becoming the standard for desktop music, including MIDI files distributed on the web. Edirol is a division of Roland that distributes them, along with other MIDI-related software.
• Cakewalk is a great sequencer package. Also has good links.
• LiveUpdate makes MIDI player plugins. You probably don't need it if you are using NetScape 3, but they also have lots of technical reference on making web pages MIDI ready.
• The MIDI Manufacturers Association is the official reference on MIDI.
• NetScape version 3 can play MIDI files. Download it if you don't already have it.
  
  
• My Speaker Building Page.
• The Audiophile Links.

• The best upgrade for your computer is to use Georgia for your Browser's default font at 12 points. It is much more readable on screen than Times New Roman. See further explanation here. (This page talks about Verdana, but most of the points apply to Georgia.)

• You can download a free copy of Georgia from here. Instructions are on the site.

• Microsoft is devoting resources towards advancing typography on the Web. See the Microsoft Typography Home Page for more info. One very helpful offering is their donating several free fonts.

  Valuable! Matthew Carter's Georgia and Verdana are designed for superior legibility on screen. Use Georgia for serif instead of Times New Roman, or Verdana for sans serif instead of Arial.

  Use Comic Sans MS for informal content, Arial Black and Impact for headlines.
  
  The versions of Times New Roman and Arial have more Unicode characters, mainly used for heavy foreign language use with Windows 95 and NT.   Courier New is the standard face used for fixed spacing. (These fonts should display if you have them installed and are using a recent version of NetScape or Internet Explorer.)
  

  
  Windows 95 users should investigate Microsoft's Font Properties Extension.
  
  
• Will Harris's Typofile Magazine covers type and design.
• typoGRAPHIC has more about type.
• Net Tips for Writers and Designers is just that. A part of David Siegal's Home Page.
• Pioneer Publish Magazine has a web site.
• More type magazines on the Web.
• Typography Links. Maintained by Microsoft.
• Type Designers and Their Faces.   By designer.   By typeface. Part of comp.fonts.

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