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blue dot image Search Tools
(14k) 40+ search engines and directories to help you find things fast on the net, with comments on the efficiency of each search tool. Some of the tools listed are 'meta-indices', which allow you to search using more than one search engine on their pages. Up to 250 search engines can be accessed.

blue dot image Stroud's Consummate Winsock Applications (CWSA)
For the best collection of where to get software and reviews on them, I strongly recommend the "Consummate Winsock Applications Page". If their site is busy, here is a list of mirror sites which have the entire library:
Primary Site
Canada -- Hookup
Other sites around the world are also listed on the Stroud home page.

blue dot image The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Applications (TUCOWS)
TUCOWS primary site, which lists several mirror sites in the USA and all over the world.
TUCOWS a California mirror site
TUCOWS a California mirror site
TUCOWS mirror site in Norman, Oklahoma
TUCOWS FTP SimTel mirror site in Norman, Oklahoma

blue dot image HTML Tutorials
To help you quickly learn the HTML language, check out the free "HTML Tutorial" at Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction To download the tutorial, select for which type of computer:
Download the Tutorial files for Windows
Note! Be sure to use the zip options to expand into directories.
Download the Tutorial files for Macintosh
Download the Tutorial files for Unix

blue dot image ISO Latin 1
8-bit character set for writing HTML pages with letters like: Æ ñ Þóßÿ or á, ö, è, ê

blue dot image Color Browser
A really neat, fast tool to see what different background colors would look like for your own Web pages. Copy color codes to Clipboard and then write the codes into your own Web page. New version 1.1. See also Web Wizard on this home page.

blue dot image Ever wonder if your firm's name or your personal name is already in use as a domain name, and if so, by whom?

Just enter the desired domain name in the search space to find out. For example, search on: "crayne.com" to learn about my domain.

Or you may try a person's name, e.g. "yourname" to see if there is any information about that person.

blue dot image Network Solutions WhoIs

blue dot image Network Solutions Home Page
If you wish to register your domain name on your own. Most people prefer to have their Internet Service Provider or web page service company do it for them. You must give your Internet Service Provider's identity as part of our registration.

blue dot image Country Abbreviations
(12k) Ever wonder what country a given email or posting is from? See this list sorted by country or by code to find the answers. For instance, CA = Canada, UK = United Kingdom (Great Britain), ES = Spain, SE = Sweden, etc.

blue dot image The HTML Writers Guild
If you wish to join the world's largest organization of writers of web pages, this is it. There are several mailing lists you may choose from: hwg-basic, hwg-main, hwg-bus, etc. This is the place to learn a lot about writing web pages, new technologies, managing web sites, etc.

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