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Chapter 3: Preparing the Kitchen
(Planning)
Ingredients:
- Intended Audience
- Information Types to Support
- Human Resources
- Hardware Resources
- Connecting to the Internet
Take a liberal amount of your intended audience and the services you think they are likely to need. You can't be too generous here — you will never anticipate everyone’s needs and how they will individually gobble up a good supply of information. Choose server software that can provide for this intended audience and add two other major ingredients: software for reading, writing, and filtering all the anticipated information types and sufficient resources, both hardware and human. Mix these ingredients together and you have a good plan in the making, with little chance of ending up with anything half-baked!
Table 3-0: Miscellaneous URLs
| Product |
Description |
| Adobe Acrobat by Adobe |
Adobe's Acrobat software for reading and creating Portable Document Format (PDF) files. |
| Animated GIFs by Yahoo! |
Yahoo! links to animated GIFs and related information. |
| Mac TeX/LaTeX Web Site by Gary L. Gray |
Information on TeX and LaTeX page layout languages for the Macintosh. |
| PNG Home Site by Greg Roelofs |
Collection of information on the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. |
| PostScript FAQ by Allen Braunsdorf |
A reference about the PostScript language definition. |
| Text file definition by W3 Consortium |
A definition of the text Content-Type as far as the Web is concerned. |
| The Graphics File Format Page by Martin Reddy |
References to information on many graphics file formats. No longer being supported. |
| Transparent GIFs by Yahoo! |
Yahoo! links to information on transparent GIFs. |
Table 3—4 Movie Formats
| Product |
Description |
| Digital Movie News by Matt Kambic |
A newsletter on digital video technology and developments. |
| MPEG resources by Yahoo! |
Links to MPEG information from Yahoo! |
| QuickTime by Apple |
QuickTime will play most common audio and video formats. |
| RealPlayer by RealNetworks |
RealPlayer is a viewer for streaming audio and video in the RealNetworks format. |
Table 3—6 Further Reading on Internet Connectivity
| Product |
Description |
| Cable modem resources by David Gingold |
Web resources about cable modems. Not recently updated. |
| Connect with ISDN by Mel Beckman |
Setting up an ISDN connection for your Mac. From the October 1997 issue of MacWorld. |
| Connect Your Workgroup by Mel Beckman and Elizabeth Dougherty |
Setting up a small Ethernet network for Macs. From the August 1997 issue of MacWorld. |
| Ethernet information by MSI Communications |
Description and rules of thumb for wiring Ethernet networks. |
| ISDN archive by Electronic Frontier Foundation |
Archive of information on Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). |
| RoadRunner San Diego by Time Warner Cable |
Member services for RoadRunner cable modem service in San Diego. |
Table 3—7 Where to Register for IP Addresses
| Product |
Description |
| Domain name registration by Network Solutions |
A U.S. site for registering your domain names. Also contact your ISP or Web hosting service. |
| Domain name registration by APNIC |
The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, for registering domain names in the Asia Pacific region. |
| Domain name registration by RIPE |
The RÈseaux IP EuropÈens, for registering domain names in the European region. |
Table 3—8 Further Reading on IP Addressing
If you know a good reference on IP addressing, let me know.
Table 3—9 Further Reading on the PPP and SLIP Protocols
| Product |
Description |
| FreePPP by FreePPP Group |
Free PPP connection software for the Mac. |
| LinkUPPP! by FCR Software |
Commercial PPP software for the Mac. |
| PPP specification by |
The official Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) standard, dating from 1994. |
| SLIP specification by |
The official standard for the Serial Line IP (SLIP) protocol. Now rarely used. |
Table 3—10 Further Reading on Internet Connectivity
| Product |
Description |
| DNS tutorial by Charles Hedrick |
A description of how the domain name system (DNS) works. |
| Free On-line Dictionary of Computing by |
As the name implies, a free on-line dictionary of computing terms. |
| Network glossary by U Chicago Network Operations |
A glossary of common network terms. |
| Whatis.com by whatis.com |
A free resource of computing and networking terms and acronyms. |
Table 3—11 Lists of Internet Service Providers
| Product |
Description |
| Becoming an ISP by Rob Kolstad |
A paper from Berkeley Software Design, Inc., about what it takes to become an ISP. |
| ISPs by Yahoo! |
The list of ISPs registered with Yahoo! |
| POCIA by Celestin |
A listing of 1741 providers of commercial Internet access (POCIA). |
| The List by internet.com |
A listing of nearly 8,000 ISPs. |
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