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Resources

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Internet

  • ARIN WHOIS Database Search
    Need to fine out the location or ownership of an IP address? This site will do the trick.
  • iPowerWeb
    Cheap, reliable web hosting with excellent traffic stats and home to the Graphic Gourd web site.
  • Open Directory
    The largest, most comprehensive directory of the Web, Open Directory is maintained by a global community of volunteer editors, some of who are much too busy to be bothered.
  • Search Engine Watch
    Tips about search engines, search engine optimization techniques, and site submission to search engines. Learn more than you ever cared to — it’s all going to change with the next Google update.
  • Web Monkey
    Web developer’s resource with articles on graphic design, programming, ecommerce, and more.
  • World Wide Web Consortium
    Develops specifications, guidelines, software, and tools for the Internet. This is the French Academy of the World Wide Web: all heed, lest ye be rebuked!

Graphics

  • American Memory
    Copyright-free images, maps, sheet music, and other stuff of interest from the Library of Congress. You paid for it, so use it!
  • ClipArt.com
    Inexpensive medium-resolution photographs, fonts, and clipart.
  • NASA Image Gallery
    High-resolution copyright-free photos from the folks who help bring you spy satellites.
  • TouchGraph
    Graphically displays the link structure from any URL you enter. Must be seen to be believed.

Writing & Editing

  • Chicago Manual of Style
    Subscription-only style guide for the editorially fastidious. Provocatively, there’s an entire section on ampersands.
  • Educational Jargon Generator
    This little gem of a tool is the ultimate resource for PhD candidates who “strategize interdisciplinary manipulatives and cultivate inquiry-centered competencies.” See? That dissertation is half written already.
  • Encyclopedia Britannica
    Check your facts with the most respected encyclopedia in the business, unless you’re not beholden to the facts (like some former coworkers).
  • Merriam Webster Online
    Free basic online dictionary and thesaurus. Access to an unabridged dictionary and thesaurus comes with a subscription.
  • Random Business Jargon Generator
    Got nothing to say, but still need to impress? This file will give you an edge in the business world.
  • Web Style Guide
    Here’s an online guide starts with a question: “HAVE YOU HEARD of the World Wide Web?” and devolves from there. But it you’re new to the process of building web sites and want to get all your information in one place, this may as well be it.
  • Wikipedia
    Free online encyclopedia is edited by its users.

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