World Wide Web and Internet Tutorials
Learn how the Internet really works and how to create web pages...
Links
Discover how the Internet really works, with less than 50 clicks of your mouse, at the The Animated Internet. Not a lot of depth, but a great site to get a quick overview of what's "under the hood" and how it all ties together. Talks about everything from connecting to the Internet to e-mails to encryption and on-line shopping. Highly recommended for the absolute beginner and fun for everyone.
The same site has FAQs for KIDS, answering kid's questions about how the web works and giving them good pointers on how to stay safe.
While some of the information is slightly dated, How The Internet Works by Pattie Orr at Wellesley College is a series of Power Point slides that answer the questions "What is the Internet?" and "How Information Flows Through the Internet". She also has some great behind the scenes pictures of what pieces of the Internet physically look like.
Dave's HTML tutorials are targeted to both beginning and advanced users. The advanced portion remains up-to-date in a field that shifts quarterly.
EchoEcho takes a easy-to-digest, step-by-step approach to web page creation and includes quizzes at the end of every section.
W3Schools has a wide range of free, in-depth tutorials for all things Internet -- from beginning HTML to Cascading Style Sheets to XML and Web Services. Recommended by our webmaster.
See Also
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Commercial enlightened self-interest is contributing to a simplification of Web use. For example, most word processors will now save your regular word-processed text or hypermedia into HTML.
While specialized skills are no longer needed, it's nice to have an idea of what's going on when things "don't work".
