The view from the Lighthouse (a table of contents)
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 The entry page
Table of contents (you are here)
Building the Lighthouse (credits to the many people who helped get the pages here)
The End of Hype (a guide to 1997 in Web design)
Cracking the Code: guides to using HTML
Community In Your Browser?: just how big an idea is "virtual community"?
Where are the words?
Interview: web designer Nathan Shedroff
The Future of the Book: a review and discussion
How users read on the Web: one expert says they simply don't
The best-designed sites ... do more than just look good
Web multimedia has a little time to wait
Multi-browser special effects waste your time
The deal on interactivity: Sometimes visitors just want information, other times, they want to do something.
The Law of the Letters: best ways to present text
Browser Battles: the best numbers on Netscape v. Microsoft
Getting the (e)mail through: humble electronic mail is the Web's most overlooked technology
The biggest wave of all (Part I): A small business's trip onto the Web, seen from the inside
The biggest wave of all (Part II): Our case study site moves from idea towards reality
The biggest wave of all (Part III): Onto the Web, and into the next stage of Web marketing Designing for navigation
Connection correction: how to link without losing viewers
Adding milk and sugar: make Java palatable, one way or another
Sound alternatives: as always, the Web has too many
Web sights: searching for photos
Cheap Tricks!: a dozen ways to painlessly spice up your site
Pulling the plug: why most plug-ins won't help your pages
Give your site a real push: why webmasters should concentrate on e-mail
Start with the best ingredients
Page-creation: reviews to find the tool that's best for you
 Claris Home Page 2.0
HiTMeLive!
Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0
AOLPress 1.2.2
Microsoft Publisher 97
Corel Web.Designer
Microsoft FrontPage 97 and 98 beta
The hole in the bottom of the FrontPage box: for Australians, Microsoft's hot new program isn't what it's cracked up to be
What you see's not what they'll get: the shortcomings of no-code Web publishing tools.
Dreaming of DHTML success: Macromedia's Dreamweaver aims take Web creation to a new level of sophistication
HomeSite: the power tool of choice for those who want to learn HTML
Graphics tools: draw your own conclusions
Microsoft Image Composer beta
CorelDraw 7.0 and 6.0
Paint Shop Pro
Macromedia Flash 2: solving three problems?
The Database Dynamic: Connecting your data to the Web
Page Not Found: A brief guide to link-checkers
A Less Enthusiastic Outlook: When it comes to mail-outs, Microsoft's free e-mail package can't beat a free rival written by one man
File Transfer Tools
Hit Me!: a sceptical guide to hit-counters and other devices.
Resources
Finding the Web's best-looking sites
Learn Web page creation on the Web
Reviews of books on personal sites, commercial sites, Killer Sites, Site That Work and the rest
Where to host your site ... (a review of Australian Internet Service Proiders' Web site hosting rates)
... And how to tell the world (the pain and struggle of submitting your site to search engines and other promoters)
Jump Out (our hand-carved top floor exit hatch)
All graphics displaying the handwritten type, either in the sidebar or on the main text areas of the pages, are clickable links.
And thanks to assorted friends, allies and master craftsmen ...
  
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