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Getting Your Magazine Online: Resources

The following list of resources is most of what was handed out at the workshop. Site addresses (URLs) have been corrected just prior to posting and a few items removed because the sites could not be found. If you encounter difficulties with these links or know of newer URLs, please let me know.

There are also one or two additions to the list, but for the most part, I will be adding resources elsewhere in the Design Studio.
MAGAZINE LISTING SITES

The following sites are useful as jumpgates for investigating magazine websites and/or for advertising your site once it's up.
small slug Canadian-based Publications Online: Individual's project; general list; will list Canadian publications for free. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Unofficial/Canadiana/CA-zines.html
small slug CMPA Reading Room: Advertising pages for CMPA (Canadian Magazine Publishers Association) members; general list; minimal cost; has links to magazine websites. http://www.cmpa.ca/maghome.html
small slug CrossSearch: Christian/Catholic listing of magazines and other resources; free. http://www.crosssearch.com/
small slug The Electronic Newsstand: Listing linked to websites; general list; free. http://www.enews.com
small slug Handilinks to Magazines: Listing linked to websites; has major "Christian" section; free listing. http://www.ahandyguide.com/cat1/m/m1213.htm
small slug Magazine CyberCenter: Advertising pages; general list; significant cost (commercial venture); no links to websites. http://www.magamall.com
small slug Yahoo! Religious Publications: Major listing of all kinds of sites; many subject areas have "magazines" section; free listing. http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Religion/Magazines/
small slug Yahoo! Canada: Canadian-specific Yahoo! listing; newer than and not as extensive as main Yahoo! listing; no religion section. http://www.yahoo.ca/Regional/Countries/Canada/News_and_Media/Magazines/
MAGAZINE WEBSITES

For sites which offer more (or way more) than just a copy of the print version:

small slug Pathfinder: Time Warner's huge site has all their publications and more. http://pathfinder.com

small slug HotWired: Wired magazine's online site. http://www.hotwired.com

small slug The MoJo Wire: Mother Jones magazine's site. http://mojones.com/

small slug The Utne Lens: Utne Reader's website. http://www.utne.com/
For ideas about magazine site design:

small slug Compass, A Jesuit Journal: http://gvanv.com/compass/comphome.html

small slug Atlantic Monthly: http://www.theAtlantic.com/atlantic

small slug Canadian Dimenion: http://www.canadiandimension.mb.ca/cd/index.htm

small slugEquinox: http://www.Equinox.CA/

small slugeye.NET: http://www.eye.net/

small slugHandbook of the Revolution: (Fast Company magazine) http://www.fastcompany.com/

small slug The Next City: http://www.nextcity.com/

small slugOwl & Chickadee: http://www.owl.on.ca/

small slugSojourners: http://www.sojourners.com

small slugTikkun: http://www.tikkun.org

small slugU.S. News Online: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm

small slugWestern Catholic Reporter: http://www.supernet.ab.ca/Mall/Religion/westerncath.html
Online only periodicals:

small slug Intertext: Has PDF, ASCII and HTML versions. http://www.etext.org/Zines/InterText/

small slugSalon1999: http://www.salon1999.com/

small slugWeb Review Magazine: Also has website design information. http://gnn.com/wr/

small slugWord: http://www.word.com/index.html
CATHOLIC RESOURCES SITES

The following sites offer links to a variety of Catholic-related sites; many have publications sections and will list your magazine site for free. More are available on the Compass Links page.
small slug Catholic Resources on the Net: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/catholic.html

small slugCatholic Online on the Web: http://catholic.org/colweb/menu.html

small slugNew Advent Catholic Website: http://csn.net/advent/index.html

small slugCatholic Goldmine: http://www.cris.com/~stambros/catholic.html
WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES

All applications listed below (except Adobe Acrobat) have demo versions so you can try them out before you pay for them.
General Software Source

small slug TUCOWS (The Ultimate Collections of Winsock Software): Shareware or demonstration versions of most Internet-related Windows software. http://www.tucows.com/
HTML Information

small slug The Art of HTML: (a.k.a. The Tao of HTML) Beginners' essentials and tutorials; HTML style, tips; HTML standards; validating HTML; CGI protocol. http://www.taoh.com/index.htm

small slugBrent's HTML Resource Page: Site has an HTML editor, graphics editor, colour conversion chart, tips and tricks, and links. http://users.aol.com/brentleim/htmlres.htm

small slugHTML Coded Character Set: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~krist/Sub/characters.html

small slugHTML Developer's JumpStation: Basic Web terminology, HTML editors/convertors, graphics, information on tables, colours, links. http://www.magna.com.au/~max/devpage/dev-page.html

small slugThe HTML Guru: Includes information on transparent GIFs, HTML tips and resources. http://members.aol.com/htmlguru/index.html

small slugIntroduction to HTML: Full explanation of HTML structure, tags, extensions; online book format. http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/htmlindex.html
HTML Editors

small slug HotDog Web Editor: http://www.sausage.com

small slug Incontext Spider Web Editor: http://www.incontext.com

small slug Webber Web Editor http://www.cdscorp.com/

small slug Web Wizard: Simple web page set up by process similar to Microsoft's wizards; useful for first glance "behind the scenes," not for complex pages. http://www.halcyon.com/artamedia/webwizard/
Forms

small slug Fill-Out Forms: Website forms creation tutorial. http://www.webcom.com/~webcom/html/tutor/forms/intro.html

small slug WebForms: Does CGI and non-CGI forms; no programming required. http://www.q-d.com

small slug The World Famous Guestbook & CGI Shop: Runs your guest book off their server, so you don't have to do any programming; free. http://www.lpage.com/
Other Web Authoring Formats: PDF

small slug Adobe Acrobat Suite: Adobe Software's Portable Document Format (PDF) allow you to publish on the WWW pages which look as they did in the print version. Acrobat Reader which allows viewing these pages is free by download from the Adobe site; the components required to produce PDF documents cost from $200 to $3000 US. http://www.adobe.com
WEB GRAPHICS
small slug Button World: Assorted GIFs to use as buttons on web pages. http://www.demon.co.uk/Tangent/butwor.html

small slug desktopPublishing.com: Good general resource for web graphics: free background GIFs (they'd like a link to their site); clipart (links to all sorts of graphics sites); information of making transparent GIFs and animating GIFs; lists of on-line and print web design resources. http://desktopPublishing.com

small slug GIF Construction Set, Graphic Workshop for Windows: http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html

small slug Paint Shop Pro: My favourite graphics editor. http://www.jasc.com/

small slug Psyched-Up Graphics: Assorted web graphics; free. http://www.econ.cbs.dk/~gemal/

small slug Transparent/Interlaced GIF Resource Page: Links to graphics editing software, information. http://www.best.com/~adamb/GIFpage.html
Image Map Editors

Some HTML editors (such as HotDogPro) include client-side image map editing. The following are separate applications which generate the code to copy to your page.

small slug CrossEye: Sausage Software's image map editor; client-side only. Cheap. http://www.sausage.com/

small slug MapEdit: Image map editor; will do client-side or server-side maps. Cheap. http://www.boutell.com/mapedit/
WEBSITE HOSTING SERVICES

I can't begin to list the website hosting services available, but the following resource is very helpful in the search for one which suits you.
small slug WEBHOSTLIST: A comparative list/rating service which evaluates web hosting services and ranks them. http://webhostlist.com
SITE PROMOTION SERVICES
small slug Go Net-Wide: Links to registration pages for website listings, both free and paid. http://www.gonetwide.com/gopublic.html

small slug Internet LinkExchange: Exchange banner ads; free. Site also has links to banner creation services. http://www.linkexchange.com/

small slug Netmind Free Services: Your visitors can register from your site and receive automatic notification by e-mail when your page/site changes. Free service; site has links to other free services. http://www.netmind.com/

small slug PostMaster: Announce Your URL Everywhere: Website announcement/listing service registers your site for you; paid service. http://www.netcreations.com/postmaster/

small slug Submit-It! Website announcement/listing service registers your site for you; free or paid service. http://www.submit-it.com/

small slug WebPromote: Website promotional services; paid. http://www.webpromote.com/

small slug WebStep Top 100: Top 100 free places to list your site; links direct to registration pages; paid service also available. http://www.mmgco.com/top100.html
WEBSITE ACTIVITY MONITORING

There are all sorts of sites and services relating to the rapidly changing subject of how to measure what's happening or not happening with your website. A couple of the simpler (i.e., more understandable) ones are below.
small slug Internet Audit Bureau: Links to your page and records stats; free. http://www.internet-audit.com/ [Editor's Note: When I recently searched for this site, the following is the URL that came up. This service may be history. http://www.archive.org/pres96/websites-mar/cyberhighway-primary/intro.html]

small slug Web-Counter: Links to your page and records stats; free or paid service. http://www.digits.com/

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