From crispen@campus.mci.netThu May 9 23:16:19 1996 Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 14:44:41 -0700 From: Patrick Douglas CrispenReply to: TOURBUS-REQUEST@LISTSERV.AOL.COM To: Multiple recipients of list TOURBUS Subject: TOURBUS - 9 MAY 1996 - SUBMIT-IT/STYLE GUIDE/ADV-HTML /~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~|~\ | "Why | Surf When / You Can | Ride The | Bus?" / | \ |__________|__________/__________|__________|_________/ | \ / /______|----\ / Be the first web-surfer on your block to own an |//////| | | ultra-cool WorldVillage T-shirt. For more info visit |//////| | | http://www.worldvillage.com/tshirt.htm |//////| | | |//////| | ~~~/~~~\~~/~~~\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~\~~~~ \___/ \___/ T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/ TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP : SUBMIT-IT/STYLE GUIDE/ADV-HTML TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESSES : http://www.yil.com/ http://www.submit-it.com/ http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html http://risc.ua.edu/adv-html If you heard a very loud scream coming from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, at about 7:30 PM (CST) on Wednesday night, that was me. Due to a minor technical glitch, my ISP accidentally deleted my entire e-mail account. For a period of about 6 hours -- and, might I add, for the first time since January 22, 1992 -- your fearless bus driver did not have an e-mail account :( Anyway, since staring at a blank computer screen for six hours, whimpering, took a lot out of me, today's TOURBUS is going to be a little on the short side :) Actually, today's TOURBUS is also going to be a little different from what you may be used to. Instead of visiting just one site, today we are going to take a mini-trip to THREE different Internet sites: SUBMIT-IT, the Walker/ACW Style Sheet, and the ADV-HTML archives. Oh, by the way, if you have not visited the "Yahoo! Internet Life" Web page recently (TOURBUS, 4 April 1996), they now have a new address: http://www.yil.com/ "Yahoo! Internet Life" just published another edition, so there is a whole bunch of new Web site reveiews on the YIL homepage. You can also get the latest editon of the "Yahoo! Internet Life" magazine at most newstands, or from today's TOURBUS sponsor ... *----------------* BIG-TIME MAGAZINES FOR $10 A YEAR? *----------------* Magazine Express has exclusive TOURBUS discounts others can only dream about. Plus, Dr. Bob's new "Internet Goodies" is FREE. This is a limited time offer, so get details now by sending email to: *-----------------------( tourbus@magazines.com )------------------------* SUBMIT-IT --------- Okay. You have your own Web page ... and NO ONE is visiting it! How do you tell the world that your Web page exists? Well, I guess you could always just pay a visit to, and fill out submission forms at, Alta Vista, Apollo, BizWiz, ComFind, Galaxy, Infoseek, LinkStar, Lycos, METROSCOPE, Nerd World Media, New Rider's WWW YP, Open Text, Starting Point, WebCrawler, What's New Too!, and Yahoo! Or, better yet, you can just visit SUBMIT-IT at http://www.submit-it.com/ fill out one form, and send your Web page information to ALL of these search engines! You'll have to have a forms-capable Web browser like Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer to be able to use SUBMIT-IT (the form that you have to fill out is WAY down at the bottom of the SUBMIT-IT page), but this one page alone is reason enough to get your own forms-capable browser! The Walker/ACW Style Sheet -------------------------- If you are a professional college student like me ("college has been the best eleven years of my life"), you have probably noticed that the venerable "MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers" is sadly lacking when it comes to telling you how to cite stuff that you find online. Now, before I get mailbombed by a whole bunch of angry English teachers, I will certainly admit that the MLA does indeed mention citing material accessed through a computer network. What I am saying is that the MLA style for citing material found on the Internet is both dated and incomplete. Fortunately, Janice Walker, an English professor at the University of South Florida, has created an MLA-style guide for citations of electronic sources. If you are a student or a teacher who uses the Internet for research, you really should check out Walker's style guide at http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html ADV-HTML ARCHIVES ----------------- Finally, there are a lot of beginners guides to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, the language that you use to create a World Wide Web page), but where can you go for advanced information? Well, a great resource for ADVANCED HTML information (and I mean ADVANCED) is the ADV-HTML archives at http://risc.ua.edu/adv-html ADV-HTML is a free, moderated, e-mail discussion list for the discussion of advanced hypertext markup language and other advanced Web topics. All of the ADV-HTML posts are also posted on the Web at the site listed above. Pay particular attention to the posts that have the word SUMMARY in their subject lines. When a question is posted to ADV-HTML, the answers are sent to the person who originally asked the question. That person that collates the responses and posts a summary to the ADV-HTML. These summaries are usually chock full of really neat information. -------------------------------- TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY -------------------------------- BIDNESS - Noun. A commercial venture. OWNNA - phrase. USAGE: "Ah'm ownna git me inta tha Moon Pie bidness!" (Special thanks goes to Rebecca Noack for today's wurd (although, as Rebecca pointed out, the word "bidness" should be attributed to the immortal Molly Ivins)) YOU CAN FIND ALL OF THE OLD SOUTHERN WORDS OF THE DAY ON THE SOUTHERN WORD HOMEPAGE AT http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/word.html *----------------------* THE NOODLES ARE COMING! *---------------------* The Flying Noodle has a cool collection of gourmet pastas and sauces on-line. Mention The Tourbus and we'll take $5 off any order over $20. *---------------------( http://www.flyingnoodle.com )--------------------* ====================================================================== SUBSCRIBE : Send SUBSCRIBE TOURBUS Firstname Lastname to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM unSUBSCRIBE: Send SIGNOFF TOURBUS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Web Site : http://www.WorldVillage.com/tourbus.htm Advertising: E-mail BobRankin@MHV.net w/ Subject: SEND TBRATES ====================================================================== TOURBUS - (c) Copyright 1996, Patrick Crispen and Bob Rankin All rights reserved. Redistribution is allowed only with permission. Send this copy to 3 friends and tell them to get on the Bus! (\__/) .~ ~. )) /O O ./ .' Patrick Douglas Crispen {O__, \ { The University of Alabama / . . ) \ *NEW ADDRESS* crispen@campus.mci.net *NEW ADDRESS* |-| '-' \ } http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/crispen.html .( _( )_.' '---.~_ _ _& Warning: squirrels.
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