Chapter 6

Frames Resources

Search Engines and Frames at http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/frames.html.

Some Caveats with Using Frames at http://www.evolt.org/article/evolt/22/293/.

What are frames, and why are they evil? at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/l_vajzovic/tom/web/frames.html.

Linking and Deep Linking Legal Issues

Deep Linking at http://www.selu.edu/Academics/FacultyExcellence/Pattie/DeepLinking/ - A rundown on some of the legal issues involved in linking to other site's commercial content.

Can "Deep Linking" Lead to Deep Trouble? at http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3_1138351 - Even small-time, non-commercial sites can be threatened with legal action.

Deep linking = deep trouble? at http://www.journalism.co.uk/ezine_plus/dotjfpub/story419.shtml.

Site Barks About Deep Link at http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52213,00.html.

Big Stink Over a Simple Link at http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48874,00.html.

Deep Linking is Good Linking at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020303.html - Article by Jacob Nielson asserting the positives of deep linking.

Links and Law: Myths at http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkMyths.html - Article by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, asserting the freedom to link.

Link Openly: Linking Customs and Etiquette at http://www.openly.com/link.openly/etiquette.html.

Linking, Framing, and Metatagging at http://www.netlitigation.com/netlitigation/cases/post.htm.

Media-Specific Style Sheets

The W3C's Media Types page at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html.

Designing & CSS for Print at http://www.btinternet.com/~wildfire/articles/21.htm.

Code Style Media Monitor at http://www.codestyle.org/css/media/. Tracks support in different browsers for media-specific style sheets.

Beyond Print Preview: Print Customization for Internet Explorer 5.5 (Microsoft Corporation) at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnie55/html/beyondprintpreview.asp.

Relative URL and Site Organization Resources

About Paths: Understanding Links at http://www.webdiner.com/webadv/begin/paths.htm.

Beginning Design Considerations at http://abledesign.com/tutorials/file_organization.shtml.

Site Design (Yale Web Style Guide) at http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/sites/site_design.html.

Planning Your Web Site Design at http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/layout/site_planning/.

Web Hosting Resources

Help With Hosting at http://www.helpwithhosting.com/. A Web site dedicated to discussing how to find the right Web host, including articles on traffic and space allowances, e-mail options, CGI scripting, domain name setup, and more.

Web Hosting: Where Should You Put Your Site at http://www.jr-c.com/articles/webhosting/hosts.htm. A good rundown on the different Web hosting types and options.

HostRecord at http://www.hostrecord.com/. Reviews, articles, and discussion forums on finding the right Web host.

Free WWWeb Space Providers at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7331/freespac.html.

The Free Pages Page at http://freepages.taronga.com/.

Free Web Hosting: Top 20 at http://www.stormloader.com/toptwenty/.

BudgetWeb.com at http://budgetweb.com/budgetweb/. Listings of budget-priced Web hosting accounts with costs and features.

HostIndex.com at http://www.hostindex.com/. Listings of Web hosting accounts, as well as e-commerce, managed, and dedicated hosting solutions.

ResellerConnection.com at http://www.resellerconnection.com/. Clearinghouse for information on reseller and virtual server accounts.

FTP Software

WS_FTP Pro and WS_FTP LE at http://www.ipswitch.com/. To download WS_FTP LE, click the Downloads option and click Evaluation Software. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to download WS_FTP LE. WS_FTP LE is free for educational or non-commercial use. (Windows.)

FTPPro at http://www.ftppro.com/. Shareware FTP program with an Explorer-type interface (Windows)

Cute FTP Pro and Cute FTP at http://www.cuteftp.com/. Evaluation versions available (Windows).

Transmit at http://www.panic.com/transmit/. Shareware FTP program (Macintosh).

Fetch at http://www.fetchsoftworks.com/. Shareware FTP program (Macintosh).

NetFinder at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~pli/netfinder/. Shareware FTP program (Macintosh).

Hefty FTP at http://www.blackdiamond.co.za/bdhefty.html. Shareware FTP program (Macintosh).

AxY FTP at http://www.wxftp.seul.org/. Freeware FTP program (UNIX).

gFTP at http://gftp.seul.org/. Freeware(GPL) FTP program (UNIX).

For links to additional FTP programs for Windows, the Macintosh, and UNIX, go to Tucows at http://www.tucows.com/.

FTP Resources and Tutorials

FTPplanet.com at http://www.ftpplanet.com/. Contains FTP tips, tutorials, FAQs, discussion forums, and other resources. Instructions and tutorials are included for publishing Web pages to Angelfire, AOL, Hometown, Bizland, Fortune City, GeoCities, Tripod, and V3space.

Zen and the Art of FTP: An FTP Tutorial at http://www.eurekais.com/brock/ftp_tutorial/. A tutorial for using WS_FTP LE (Windows).

Beginning FTP Tutorials at http://www.pageresource.com/putweb/ftpmain.htm. Tutorials for using WS_FTP LE (Windows).

Fetch: FTP for the Macintosh at http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/Fetch/fetch.html. Tutorial for using the Fetch FTP program (Macintosh).

Fetch Tutorial at http://support.t3west.com/tutorials/mac.html (Macintosh).

FTP Using Transmit at http://elem.wrdsb.edu.on.ca/~bwood/FTP_Transmit/transmit.html (Macintosh).

FTP Tutorial at http://ils.unc.edu/ils/lab/tutorials/ftp.html. Includes instructions for using FTP on the UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh platforms.

Unix 101: Command Line FTP Tutorial at http://unix.about.com/library/weekly/aa121800a.htm. Instructions on using the UNIX command-line FTP client.

Publishing Web Pages on AOL

AOL: Uploading Your Web Page at http://www.patmcclendon.com/aol.html.

AOL: Publishing Your Web Page at MyPlace at http://www.sunweaving.com/help/en/aolmyplace.html.

About AOL's MyPlace at http://www.aol.com/nethelp/publish/aboutaolsmyplace.html.

AOL Hometown: Connecting with WS_FTP LE at http://www.ftpplanet.com/tutorial/ws_ftple.asp?host=AOL.

Registering Your Site with Search Engines and Promoting Your Site

Announce your site through the comp.infosystems.www.announce newsgroup. See the newsgroup's FAQ at http://www.sangfroid.com/charter.html for guidelines on which kind of a site you can announce and details on how to do this.

Announce your site through Net Surfer Digest. To find out about the Net Surfer Digest, visit http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/. If you think your site is appropriate for the Net Surfer Digest, e-mail your site announcement to pressroom@netsurf.com.

Announce your site through the Internet Scout Report, which runs two mailing lists, the Scout Report and Net-Happenings. The Scout Report is sent out to over 100,000 subscribers on a weekly basis, while Net-Happenings is sent out to over 25,000 subscribers on a daily basis. For information about these lists and how to submit an announcement, see http://www.scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/.

Suggest your site for inclusion at Yahoo! For guidelines on how to submit your site to Yahoo!, see http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/. Note: Before suggesting your site, find and write down the paths to at least three Yahoo! categories you think your site fits in. Also, write a concise description of your site in 30 words or less and save it for later use. Make sure that you include in your description keywords or key phrases you think others might use in searching for a site like yours. Then, go to the category that you think best fits your site and click the Suggest a Site link at the bottom of the page (note: some categories are for commercial site submissions only). When asked what other categories fit your site, type or paste in the paths for the other categories you took note of earlier. When asked for a description of your site, paste in the description you have already written. Be patient! Yahoo! takes their own sweet time considering which links it will include in their directory. If they choose to list you, it may take several weeks or months to be listed.

Suggest your site for inclusion in other search engines and directories. Reuse the description you wrote for submitting to Yahoo! when submitting to this sites. For a listing of other search engines and directories you can submit your site to, see Yahoo!'s listing of search engines and directories at http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web/Search_Engines_and_Directories/.

Free Web Site Submission Services
These services let you batch submit your site to multiple search engines and directories.
Note: When submitting your site using free Web site submission services, you should not use your regular e-mail address. Instead, sign up with a free Web-mail account and specify it as your e-mail address when submitting your site using these services.

WorldSubmitter.com at http://www.worldsubmitter.com/.

JimTool's SubmitBot service at http://www.jimtools.com/.

Add URL Web Promotion Tool at http://www.123-add-masters.com/.

Free Submit at http://www.announceitamerica.com/freesubmit.htm.

Other Ways to Promote Your Site

Join a Web ring that is appropriate to your site. To find out about Web rings and search for a Web ring that might be appropriate for your site, see http://dir.webring.com/. If you do not find a Web ring you like, start your own!

Join a banner exchange network. You display a banner on your site in exchange for your banner being displayed on other sites. Many banner exchange networks let you limit banners displayed on your site to those for non-commercial sites. For a listing of available banner exchange networks you can join, see Yahoo's category at http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Marketing_and_Advertising/Internet/Promotion/Banner_Exchanges/.

Seek out appropriate reciprocal links. It is a good idea to create a separate page within your site for listing links to other sites. Rather than simply call this page a "links" page, call it a directory, guide, roadmap, or some other name that makes it sound more important than just being a page of links. Seek out other sites on the Web that you think might be interested in exchanging reciprocal links. Include them in your page of reciprocal links and publish it to the Web. Next, e-mail the authors or owners of the sites you have listed, complement them on the content and/or design of their site (important!), tell them you have included their link in your "Roadmap to [fill in the blank] Web Resources" page (or something like that), and then politely ask them if they would consider adding a link at their site back to your site's main page. Note: There are utilities and services that repute to be able to automate the creation of reciprocal links. The pages they create are commonly referred to as "link farms." You should realize, however, that many search engines and directories have gotten wise to this and actually penalize pages that are linked to link farm pages. This is one reason you should not call your own page simply a "links" page or name it as links.html, for instance. You should also include short descriptions and appropriate commentary along with your links, so your page will not be mistaken for simply being a link farm.