Weshawk's Worthy Web Sites

Here are some Web sites we've found exceptionally useful or entertaining or, best of all, both. Click below to choose a category.

Make Your Own Web Page

Practical Info.

Entertaining Info.

E-Commerce

Practical Information Sites

• After using many search engines I still think AltaVista is the best for most information quests.

• Here is the phone and e-mail directory for the entire country.

• Here are the on-lineYellow Pages for the entire country, with maps yet.

• For the e-mail address and everything else related to your congressman: House of Representatives Info

• Search for any book by title, author, or subject in the Library of Congress on-line catalog You might even find the author of "Kites for All Seasons."

• The administration's side of the story Whitehouse Web site

• Compare your spelling of a word with how it's spelled in a "zillion" Web sites. Example: Type email in one blank and e-mail in the other and you'll find that it's spelled "email" 10,246,307 times and e-mail 11,700,093 times. It's entertaining and enlightening: Spell-check here.

• For free legal information, check out this site. It's well organized and written in plain English.Free legal information

• Look up all kinds of information about any Federal politician. You can see actual copies of their "personal financial disclosure" document; their voting record; who supports them financially; and much more. Center for Responsive Politics

Entertaining & Educational Sites

• If you're a Shakespeare buff like me, you can find every word of the Bard's works here. If you want more than just his works, see this Shakespeare site.

• For all the news that's fit or unfit to download start withThe Drudge Report.

• A freebie from Bill Gates. Corbis is his collection of over 500,000 photographs of thousands of subjects. Search for any subject and then send an electronic postcard cantaining the photo free. Bill Gates' big photo album

• Want a FREE, easy-to-build Web page of your very own? You can have one using Disney's Go network Homepage builder (http://www.go.com). When you get to their opening page click on the "Communicate." tab, then follow these easy steps:
  1. Under "Homepages", click "Build a Free Home Page"
  2. You'll be asked to register. This is an easy process that will let you select your member name and password. Once you have these you're ready to make your own Web page(s) that will be available to anyone who knows your Web page address or URL (Universal Resource Locator).
  3. To "sign-in" enter your member name and password and click on "Sign in."
  4. This will take you to a page with three choices: 1. Basic Builder 2. Photo Album Builder 3. Custom HTML
  5. To make your first Web page, click on the "Make/Edit" button on the "Basic Builder."
  6. From then on just follow the simple instructions and in only a few minutes you'll have your Web page on the Internet for all to see.
  7. When you want to add to your Web page or make changes all you'll have to do is go to the "Communicate" section of GO.com, sign in and click on "Make/Edit" again.
  8. Making a photo album is just as easy except you will have to have some digital photos on your own hard drive to use.
  9. To see a sample of the simple Web page I made with GO.com click here (http://homepages.go.com/~eastace) and don't forget to sign my guest book there. Truth in advertising requires that I inform you that our son Bob is the manager of the team that developed the capability for Go.com which makes these extremely easy-to-build, FREE Web pages possible.

• The ultimate movie information site is the The Internet Movie Data Base. Cast, crew, synopsis and related links -- it's all here.

• Want to see what it looks like right now in London, Paris or some computer geek's bedroom? Then check out this list of Web cams

E-Commerce Sites

• Send someone you love (or just like) e-flowers or the real thing: Virtual Flowers

• Shop on-line at Wal-Mart. It's a very well-constructed, well-organized Web site and they do have great prices.

• If you haven't yet been to an on-line auction site, visit the ultimate one -- e-bay. WARNING: It's extremely addictive, but loads of fun and even educational.

• Here is the first and still best on-line book store: Amazon.com