More Internet for Dummies Book

Introduction About This Book How to Read, or Not to Read, This Book Conventions in This Book Who Are We Talking To? How This Book Is Organized Part I: We're Back! (Again!) Part II: Connecting to the Internet Part III: The Fine Art of Browsing Part IV: More Ways to Waste Time Online Part V: Home Page, Ho! Part VI: Doing Business on the Net Icons Used in This Book Talk to Us! Part I: We're Back! (Again!) Chapter 1: Back into the Fray What's New on the Net? A Brief Refresher Course What is the Internet? Names and numbers Essential Services Electronic mail and mailing lists The World Wide Web (WWW or Web) Usenet newsgroups Live chat Odds and Ends Old, boring stuff New stuff Chapter 2: Resource, Resource, Who's Got the Resource? Don't Hurl! It's Only an URL! Web-Walking Wisdom E-Mail -- Not! Put Me on the Mailing List Mailing-list wrangling URLs for mailing lists Usenet Newsgroups: The World's Biggest Bulletin Board Subscribing to a newsgroup URLs for newsgroups FTP: Files Delivered to Your Door The Web meets FTP: URL that file FTP classic Hot Spots to Gossip with IRC Telnet: The Next Best Thing to Being There Going for Gopher Don't Take Our Word for It Part II: Connecting to the Internet Chapter 3: The Coolest Way to Get Connected: Dial-Up PPP Accounts What Is PPP Again? Ready to Be PPP The big picture, PPP-wise Do you have what it takes? Who Will Provide? Where to look for an Internet service provider Ask your provider The Programs You Need A Home for Your Programs The Next Step Chapter 4: Becoming Well Connected Tricking Windows 98 and Windows 95 into Letting You Connect to the Net Windows 95 is a little tricky The big picture Maybe you're already connected to the Internet Sign me up! Maybe Professor Marvel can get you connected to the Internet Finding the Wizard The Internet Connection Wizard does her thing Hey, Windows 98 -- I have a modem! Gimme a network Meet my ISP At last -- connecting to your ISP The Ways of Windows 3.1 Installing Trumpet Winsock Telling Trumpet Winsock about your ISP Making a PPP connection Dial ho! Testing your connection by pinging Hanging up Installing a browser Some Nitty-Gritty Stuff You Should Ignore If at All Possible You Wanted to Get Some Useful Work Done on the Internet? Chapter 5: Grabbing Software over the Net The Big Picture Using Your Web Browser to Download Files Downloading a good unzipping program "FTP won't speak to me!" Installing WinZip Running WinZip Looking at the WinZip window Unzip it! Zip it! Zipped out? Scanning for Viruses If you use Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 6.2 (or later) If you use Windows 3.1 and an earlier version of MS-DOS If you use Windows 95 or Windows 98 Netting a Program Getting hold of the program Unzipping the program files Installing the program Associating the program with data files Configuring the program So Where Are All the Programs? Chapter 6: Grab-Able Software Super Sources of Software TUCOWS Forrest Stroud's Consummate Winsock Apps List Download.com Dave Central MacUpdate WinSite The Papa FTP server Yahoo! and things like it Elegant E-Mail Pegasus Mail Eudora Other programs Priceless Plug-Ins Fabulous FTP FTP favorites Finding FTP Nifty Newsreaders Free Agent Other newsreaders Literary Acrobatics Downloading Acrobat Reader Installing Acrobat Reader Using Acrobat Reader Other Programs Doing Your Part Free versus not quite free Registering WinZip Part III: The Fine Art of Browsing Chapter 7: Browser Basics Scenes from the Browser Wars The Great Netscape Getting Netscape Installing Netscape Using Netscape Exploring Internet Explorer Getting Internet Explorer Installing Internet Explorer Internet Explorerology Keeping Your Browser Up-to-Date Chapter 8: Advanced Surfing Techniques Take Me Back! That page is history Mark that book It takes me back.... Bookmarks gone wild I don't want to see you until you've changed Making Your Browser Smarter Plug in, add on, and activate Plug-in places Our favorite plug-ins Browsing While You're Asleep The Web Is Coming to Get You What's the PointCast? Castanet wide BackWeb to the future Netcasting about Channeling the Web Pushing back Chapter 9: More Fun with Browsers Finders Keepers Putting in an Appearance Font of wisdom Discolor my world Spacing Out Zoning Out Be Advised Just Who Do You Think You Are? Find out who's driving in VR Find out who's certifiable in VR A look ahead Part IV: More Ways to Waste Time Online Chapter 10: Ladies and Gentlemen, Step Right This Way Audio and Video Go Mainstream Audio and video the new, fun way Audio and video the old, boring way Are You a Player? The Real thing The NetShow must go on Tuning into the TOOB Other players What's On? Guiding lights Don't touch that dial.... More multimedia Chapter 11: Meeting on the Net Packet Wars Your Best Bet: NetMeeting Getting NetMeeting started Making a NetMeeting call Collaborating with NetMeeting Your Second-Best Bet: Internet Phone Getting started with Internet Phone One-on-one with Internet Phone Other stuff you can do with Internet Phone The Bad News and the Good News Lots More Telephony Advice Chapter 12: All the News That Fits and Considerably More Whose News Do You Use? Big bags o' news Being a newsgroupie The newsgroup thicket Regional groups Enough Already -- Let's Read Some News Finally, Some Newsreading First, subscribe Second, get the headers Third, get the articles Saving Dough: Reading News Offline Offline reading with Free Agent Offline reading with Outlook Express Honest -- It's a Work of Art Introducing binary files Extracting binary files So You Want to Be Famous? That's a roger, Roger I'll follow you anywhere I have something new to say Distributions Are Your Friends All the News that Fits So What Is There to Read Already? More Hierarchies Chapter 13: How to Break In to Computers on the Net Telnet I Love Him Telnetting, for You UNIX Users You're Not My Terminal Type Help! I've Telnetted and I Can't Get Out! New, Improved Telnet, with Whiter Whites Any Port in a Storm We're from IBM, and We Know What's Good for You Fun Computers to Break in To Libraries Other databases Go Telnet It on the Mountain Late-breaking bulletin (boards) Libraries galore More sites than you can shake a stick at Chapter 14: Internet Classic Welcome to Gopherspace The good, the bad, and the ugly Gophering around in the Web Ask Archie Archie on the Web Archie by mail Other places Fingering Far-Off Friends for Fun Fingering on the Web Fingering from UNIX Fingering with a SLIP or PPP account The industrial-strength finger Ping-a-Ding Plain old ping Over the network and through the woods Chapter 15: Fun and Games on the Net Rolling in MUDs and MOOs MUDding basics Types of MUDs Telnetting in to MUDs Better-quality MUD MUD, MUD, glorious MUD Staying cool in the MUD Getting more MUD info Games on the Web Games on IRC Games by E-Mail Wandering in Virtual Reality OnLife to live Finding virtual worlds More Fun Part V: Home Page, Ho! Chapter 16: Home-Page Bound The Big Picture Who Cares about HTML? Gentlemen, Start Your Software Web Page, Take One What Are All These Tags, Really? Your minimal set of tags Body language Sprucing Up Your Page Let's Get Organized Run, Text, Run The Strong, the Bold, and Other Typography Chapter 17: Pretty As a Picture -- and Well Connected Too Picture This Format wars I've got some images already Making your image fit into your pages "How about us text lovers?" Where can I get some images? The Missing Link Plain links Fancy links Colorizing Your Pages and Other Advanced Hackery Transparently better Colorful pages A deep background Chapter 18: Everything Else We Know about Web Pages On the Table Tabling details Real tabling details Tables and backgrounds Border patrol Tabular wrap-up Making Your Graphics Load Snappily Helping Your Fans Send You Mail HTML Tags -- Yuck! Discovering More Part VI: Doing Business on the Net Chapter 19: Present and Accounted For You Want Your Own Web Site? Who's Asking? The (big) business end of the Web The (small) business end of the Web "Let's just create a modest little Web site and see how it goes" Five Unpopular E-Commerce Truths A commercial Web site always costs more than you expect A corporate Web site is not a document -- it's a virtual part of your organization It's just as hard to keep a site up-to-date as it is to launch it in the first place Building a cutting-edge Web site is no longer for amateurs If you build it, they may not come Five E-Commerce Success Tips Be cool, but more importantly, be useful Actively interact Give to get Feedback loop Lovely Rita, meter maid The Mom-and-Pop Store Goes Online Casper, the friendly host Plenty of free parking The hard facts E-commerce, at your service Minding the store Getting noticed E-commerce stuff we left out Chapter 20: A Place of One's Own How to Register Your Own Domain Name What kind of domain do you want? "Somebody took my name!" Where will your domain live? Registering your name Now what? Publish or Perish Going public with FTP Composing yourself Publishing with Mr. Wizard Getting Personal with Microsoft Installing Personal Web Server Managing your personal Web Chapter 21: Have I Got a Secret? Keeping Those Love Letters Private Internet Programs That Use Encryption PGP Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer Eudora Public-key infrastructure Other Hot Topics S/MIME Should you give out your credit card number over the Internet? How secure is public-key cryptography? What are tokens? How should you pick your pass phrase? How big should your key be? What is key recovery? Can strong cryptography really be banned? Chapter 22: Cool Stuff Is Out There! Yuck! I Hate Typing URLs! The Net on the Net Online Magazines And Now, the News How's the Weather? Touchdown! Goal! Home Run! Wicket! The Literary Life We're from the Government, and We're Here to Help You Stock Prices, Almost Live Kids' Stuff Arts and Crafts Travel The Funnies Um, It's Personal Fun and Games Food, Food, Wonderful Food