My Favorite Things About Angelfire
My Favorite Web sites
Angelfire Home Pages
Free Web Building Help
Angelfire HTML Library
htmlGEAR - free polls, guestbooks, and more!
A SAMPLE OF INTERESTING WEB SITES
Note: it is sometimes not necessary to use
the www, but I recommend that you always use it. But there are a few
exceptional cases where you should not use it. I note those below.
NELSON’S WEB PAGES
www.angelfire.com/planet/richnelson
VIRTUAL CLASSROOM WEB SITE
www.angelfire.com/blog/richnelson
THE BROOKS VIRTUAL CLASSROOM
NEWS
www.cnn.com
-an example of a bad web site covered with junk
www.onlinenewspapers.com
(a directory to most newspapers in the world)
MAGAZINES
www.slate.com (an
interesting magazine about everything)
MUSEUMS
www.nga.gov (National Galley of Art)
www.si.edu Smithsonian Institute
www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm
(The Louvre in
WEB SITES TO LOTS OF INFORMATION
www.about.com (ALSO HAS A SEARCH
ENGINE)
www.en.wikipedia.org
(free encyclopedia anyone can edit) try it
out you may find it interesting
www.xist.org
- Global statistics
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook
this is a
great site for world information
education.yahoo.com/references/factbook/countrycompare/gdp
–this is a great site to find how we
SEARCH ENGINES
www.askjeeves.com www.ask.com
HOW STUFF WORKS
www.techsoup.org
(learningcenter/hardware)good site for whats going on
in the tech world
www.howstuffworks.com
this is the great site for describing digital devices
www.googleguide.com-help for use of google
SENIOR SITES
www.aarp.org (computer information
for older people)
www.seniornet.org (great site
for older people)
HEALTH AND MEDICINE
FREE EMAIL
shellpoint.net (don’t use the www here)
INTERNET SERVICES FOR BACKING UP YOUR
FILES
These sites will provide a backup for your
files on their internet site.
BOOKS
SHOPPING
www.printpal.com/15 (printer
cartridges)
www.sidestep.com (great for
airline tickets)
www.ebay.com buying and selling your
stuff on-line
http://www.presto.com/what-is-presto.aspx
HP email printer
GOVERNMENT
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
http://lcweb.loc.gov or www.loc.gov
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WORLD
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
(CIA factbook)
THE WHITE HOUSE
MAPS
COMPUTER STUFF IN
www.swfpcug.org-southwestflorida
pc users group
GETTING EMAIL ADDRESSES
FINANCIAL
www.quicken.com - then go into One-click stock
analysis
www.morningstar.com or www.moringstar.com/Cover/Stocks.html
EDUCATION SITES
laptop.media.mit.edu -
MIT’s $100 computer
RECIPIES
WEATHER
www.nhc.noaa.gov (national
hurricane center)
GREETING CARDS
www.marketsuite.com/free_greeting_cards.html
Newspaper/Radio sites
FREE WEB PAGE/BLOG PAGE
BE CAREFUL! www.anglefire.com is
a dating/PORN site
EXERCISE
www.hathayogalesson.com
(this is a light yoga)
NANOTECHNOLOGY
(Nano is 10 to the –9 power)
www.nano.gov (Courses-Intro to
Nanoscience Rice Univ. Vici Colvin – this site has a great slide show)
INTERNETS 2 AND 3
FOREIGN MAGAZINE SITE
www.baidu.com the Google of china
MIDDLE EAST NEWS
http://english.aljazeera.net/News ON-LINE NEWS PAPER IN
QATAR WHICH IS ON THE PERSIAN GULF AND A NEIGHBOR OF SAUDI ARABIA. THE CAPITAL
IS
RUSSIAN NEWS
ON-LINE NEWS PAPERS
www.onlinenewspapers.com
(a directory to most newspapers in the world)To find a foreign newspaper, go to
the alphabetical listing on the right side and pick the one that includes your
country. Then click on the city. Then click on the newspaper that looks like
the right one. You might have to try several until you find the right one.
In the search field type in abyz – click on Google Search this will give
you access to all the worlds news papers
ELECTRIC AUTOMOBLES
www.pluginamerica.com(plug
in hybrids)click on WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
SHELL POINT
www.shellpoint.net
(this is the residents site)
The IP number for
this site is 216.32.93.150
www.shellpoint.org
(this is the marketing site)
RICHARD NELSON’S WEB SITES
www.angelfire.com/planet/richnelson/ this is Richard
Nelson’s new virtual classroom web site.
www.angelfire.com/fl5/richnelson/ this is Richard Nelson’s
original virtual classroom web site.
www.angelfire.com/hiphop/richnelson/ this is the Shell Point
Blog site
www.angelfire.com/planet/sppoems this is Shell Point's Poets
Web Site
www.angelfire.com/blog/rrnelson this is Richard Nelson’s
blog site at The Brooks
http://mybitsnbytes.angelfire.com
AND
EXCEL 2003 – EXCEL 2007
WORD
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100744321033.aspx
EXCEL
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA101491511033.aspx?pid=CH100648241033
INTERNET
GAMES
www.chevroncars.com/games/solitaire
MUSIC
http://www.trachtman.org/ragtime//ragtime/
