HOT LINKS for HTML Assistant Newsletter 4
HOT LINKS
for the HTML Assistant Newsletter
Number 4, Winter 1994-95
Revised May 1, 1995
This document is copyright 1994 by Howard Harawitz and Brooklyn North Software Works, all rights reserved. It may be freely distributed, as long as the entire document is included in the distribution.
The HTML Assistant Newsletter is published "Semi-Irregularly" by Brooklyn North Software Works, Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada. It's free and is delivered by Email.
To subscribe, send Email with the word, "subscribe" (leave out the quotes), in the subject field, to sales@brooknorth.bedford.ns.ca.
Announcing URL Grabber
A new software utility for World Wide Web surfers
URL Grabber is a small floating tool bar that resides
in a corner of your MS Windows desktop.
It enables you to easily "grab" and store URLs from
news groups, Email messages and other sources, "on the fly",
as you are reading them.
With a 'click' of a mouse, URL Grabber will automatically
convert your collection of URLs to active WWW links on an
HTML page.
With another mouse click, URL Grabber will bring up your
favorite browser displaying your collected links so you can
view Web pages, download files and otherwise obtain information
from the WWW almost instantly.
You can download a working demo (129K) as a self-extracting archive.
You also need the file, "vbrun300.dll", to run URL Grabber. If you are using HTML Assistant, you already have this file. If you need it, download it (254K), decompress it and store it in your Windows\ (or Windows\system\) subdirectory.
Useful Sites for HTML Assistant Software Users
The following pointers to information available on the Web will be of interest to those who prepare HTML pages.
Books
- The World Wide Web Unleashed
Our favorite! By seasoned WWW surfers, Neil Randall and John December, this is a BIG book (1,000+ pages) and an incredibly rich source of useful information for WWW users and information providers. If you don't get another WWW book be sure to get this one!
- Teach yourself HTML In a Week
We haven't yet seen this one, but a perusal of the Web site indicates that it will be full of good stuff, including material on image maps, forms and scripts. This book should be available by the time you read this.
- List of books on marketing and doing business on the Internet
A good list. It also includes reviews.
HTML with Netscape
- Netscape's extensions to HTML
Use HTML Assistant's "User Tools" to add these tags to your tool kit.
- Want to use Netscape as a stand alone browser for viewing your documents without a network connection? Then FTP this "dummy" Winsock for Netscape. We haven't tried it, but Mosaic Communications, Inc. (or is it now Netscape Communications, Inc.?) says you can use this DLL (Dynamic Link Library) to run Netscape as a stand alone HTML viewer.
Advanced HTML and beyond
Information related to things like forms, image maps and scripts.
Winsock and Winsock Applications
Created January, 1995, by Howard Harawitz, Editor, HTML Assistant Newsletter.
sales@brooknorth.bedford.ns.ca