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here are some of the links from my bookmark list with some explanations.

other pages authored by me
http://www.abelard.org/
a great infomation resource. growing steadily. currently gets over 100 hits per day. (the design of this site was largely done by abelard).

http://www.iridium.uk.com/
these are the people who own and run the fm market leader FACTS... they do consultancy and bespoke software. (design done in conjunction with abelard, logo is abelard's work).

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~assassin/
the official website for the oxford university guild of assassins... blame everything but the text on me (including logo). 

useful for making a website
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/cgi-bin/easy/engines.cgi 
use this to submit your site to a load of search engines at once.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ 
jakob neilsen's column on website design... some interesting articles... of particular interest is his series of 'top 10 mistakes in web design' articles.

http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots.html 
tells you how to write your robot.txt properly.

http://www.freefind.com/ 
the place to get a free internal search engine... it gets slow at busy times of day and adds advertising, but is good as experimentation tool.

http://www.freewebspace.net/ 
an index of places that offer 'free' web space. the infomation is sometimes a bit patchy.

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/jsref/index.htm 
the netscape javascript bible.

http://scrubtheweb.com/abs/meta-check.html
use this to check how well you meta tags would work on the top search engines.

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
a great site... it contains masses of info about how different search engines work, including some rather useful statistics.

http://www.thefreesite.com/
one of the most useful sites around for the site designer... catorgised lists of 'free' bits and pieces with helpful comments.

http://validator.w3.org/
use this site to find out how pedantic your html is... probably not very useful.

http://lynx.browser.org/
a rather badly organised and not very informative site, but just about the only thing i've found that gives any information about the lynx browser.

http://www.bookmarklets.com/tools/categor.html
bookmarklets are bits of javascript used as bookmarks... there is some very useful javascript here.

http://www.netwhistle.com/
a free service which emails you when your site becomes unavailable, and reemails you when it comes back online.

http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/popcrypt.html
some interesting articles on computer security.

http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/www-security-faq.html
this site is rather big... it is a series of faq about computer and website security.
 

sites by people i 'know'

http://www.jlevitt.dircon.co.uk/aeschess.htm
this is a chess site made by international grand master jon levitt.

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~lpn98c/index.html
this site belongs to larry norah... it was done as part of his computer science course at nottingham university... take a look at the photos of the sychelles.

http://www.users.mwfree.net/~dazed/
dan logan's site... it's a bit of mess, but has some fun bits.

http://www.albion42.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm
richard (someone at d'overbroeck's) made this... some of his artwork can be fun.
 

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