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Tourist Attractions

Go Tampa Bay. This site will help you find lots of fun places to visit in the Tampa Bay area.6/6/98

http://www.gotampabay.com/

Palm Harbor, FL Chamber of Commerce. Includes links to tourist attractions. 3/23/99

http://www.palmharborcc.org/

Busch Gardens. 12/11/97

http://www.4adventure.com

Travel

GORP (Great Outdoor Recreation Pages). Information, maps, photos of U.S. national parks. Find out which allow overnight camping. 11/21/97

http://www.gorp.com

National Park Service WWW Server — for details about national monuments, parks, historic sites. 11/21/97

http://www.nps.gov/

Travel Channel Online Network — for chat, bulletin boards, and photographs all related to travel. 11/21/97

http://www.travelchannel.com/

Travelocity — this is the spot to make reservations and obtain travel tickets. 11/21/97

http://www.travelocity.com

Wanderlust — an on-line literary travel magazine. 11/21/97

http://www.salonmagazine.com

Conde Nast’s Epicurious. Can sign up here for several e-mail lists at once. Airlines you sign up for will e-mail you special rates for the destinations you request. 11/21/97

http://travel.epicurious.com/travel/c_planning/02_airfares/intro.html

For consolidated list of weekly air, hotel, and car rental bargains, check out these sites. 11/21/97

Best Fares’ Newsdesk

http://www.bestfares.com

Web Flyer

http://www.webflyer.com/@deal/@deal.htm

1travel.com’s Last Minute Deals

http://www.1travel.com

Visitor Bureaus. Often the best way to find out what’s going on in a town you’re planning to visit is to check out the local visitor’s bureau. 11/21/97

Yahoo’s Directory. Will link you to visitors’ information centers in cities around the world.

http://www.yahoo.com/Recreation/Travel/Convention_and_Visitors_Bureaus

Microsoft Expedia. Get an overview here of attractions, hotels, restaurants, and events in cities you might visit.

http://www.expedia.com

Fodor’s. An all purpose site similar to Expedia’s. Let’s you customize your own guide for 87 cities.

http://www.fodors.com

Excite. Provides the basics on more than 5,000 destinations

http://www.city.net

Sidewalk. A Microsoft website that gives big city residents a close up look at their own hometown attractions. 11/21/97

http://www.sidewalk.com

CitySearch. Similar to Sidewalk, but gives more specifics on restaurants, events and entertainment. 11/21/97

http://www.citysearch.com

The Mining Company. Local guides review Web sites for a specific region, city or neighborhood. Check out Tampa Bay. 11/21/97

http://www.miningco.com

Playbill Online. If you plan to visit a city and would love to go to the local theaters, see this website for theater listings in more than 100 cities in North America and Great Britain. Includes reader reviews and seating charts for most New York theaters. 11/21/97

http://www.playbill.com

Elderhostel Home Page. Senior citizens can learn about Elderhostel sites and courses. 12/11/97

http://www.elderhostel.org

Maps-On-Us, MapQuest, Zip2.com, Mapblast. Create detailed driving directions from your house to anywhere in the US. 1/19/99

Click-It! Weekends. If you’re ready to take off on a short vacation at the spur of the minute, check out this site. Can find hotel rates and availability. Even reserve your room with your credit card, and receive e-mail confirmation. 12/11/97

http://www.travelweb.com/TravelWeb/clickit.html

Absolutely Florida. Travel site just devoted to Florida vacations, leisure and recreation.

http://www.funandsun.com/

Amtrak's Rail Sale. If you enjoy traveling by train, discover the discount fares Amtrak offers.1/9/99

http://reservations.amtrak.com

Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets. With threats of terrorism rampant, take the trouble to check out the safety of your overseas destination. 8/28/98

http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html
CDC -- Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Find out what innoculations, vaccinations you need and other health precautions when traveling to Russia, China, India and other countries. 10/10/98

http://www.cdc.gov/travel/index.htm

Hotel Reservations. Book a hotel room in more than 25 major cities. 3/16/99

http://www.180096hotel.com/
Palm Harbor area hotel reservations. Great site if you want to find a hotel room nearby for out-of-town visitors.

http://www.travelweb.com/HRN/init.html

I-95 Travel Guide. Driving up North from Florida along I-95? Then see this site offering I-95 information on gas price updates, mileage calculator, restaurants, traffic conditions, tourist sites, and more.6/28/98

http://www.usastar.com/i95/homepage.htm

Smarter Living. Tracks online travel bargains. 4/11/2000
1. http://www.smarterliving.com/
Arthur Frommer’s Outspoken Encyclopedia of Travel. Advertises itself as "6,000 pages of bargain priced tickets and trips."

http://www.frommers.com/

Web Pages — Creating Your Own

Geocities. Advertises that it allows creation and storage of free web page. Also free e-mail account. 12/13/97

http://www.geocities.com/join/freehp.html

Xoom.com. Another site offering free web page storage and program to make web-page creation easy. 3/28/99

http://xoom.com/webspace/
Xoom tutorial on HTML. 4/25/99

http://xoom.com/helpcenter/essential/essential

Third Age. Easy way to create and store a webpage. Third Age is for older adults -- probably 40+.

http://home.thirdage.com/index.html?basket

Angelfire. Allows creation of free website. No need to know html here. Easy insertion of a counter that shows you the number of times people have accessed your website.8/15/98

http://www.angelfire.com

FreeGraphics for your webpage. Add clipart to your site. 3/16/99

http://www.freegraphics.com

Add Me. Free service to get your webpage registered with search engines. 4/29/99

http://www.addme.com/

Homestead. Another site that allows you to create your own free homepage on the internet. Again, without knowing html. Advantage over Angelfire (above), Homestead will not put a pop-up advertisement on your site. 8/14/98

http://www.homestead.com

Additional free website storage sites along with easy-to-use software to create your own webpage. 11/18/98

Creating a Successful Website. Links to tutorials that teach you webpage design and html. 12/14/97

http://www.hooked.net/~larrylin/web.htm

HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners on how to create a webpage. 12/14/97

http://davesite.com/webstation/html/

Register-It. To increase the probability that your site will be found by search engines, register your URL with the top 16 search engines for free. 7/12/98

http://www.registerit.com

How web servers and the Internet Work? 4/25/99

http://www.howstuffworks.com/web-server.htm

How do you get your own website-domain on the Internet? 4/24/99

http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Domain/

HTML Validation. This site will check out a website that you create to point out errors in your HTML code. 9/10/98

http://validator.w3.org/

Netscape Tutorial on Web Page Creation. Use Netscape Composer, one of the programs in the Netscape Communicator package, to help you create your own webpage without knowing HTML.

http://home.netscape.com/home/how-to-create-web-services.html

NYSUT (teachers' union) gives advice on creating webpages. 12/5/98

http://www.nysut.org/web/how.htm

FortuneCity.Com. Gives 20 megs of free storage space without charge, but will run a large ad at the top of your webpage. Also provides on-line easy to use software for creating your own site. 10/24/99

http://www.fortunecity.com

Your instructor Richard Gordon has created a webpage -- based on a fictional character called Ricardo Fictionale -- as an instructional tool in any HTML courses he teaches.

AOL Press. At this site, you can get a free download of a program that works just like a wordprocessor to create a webpage.

http://www.aolpress.com/index.html

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