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News and Reference
- The Times - ah, my favourite UK newspaper! I like the Telegraph too, and tend to use whichever site is giving me the better connection (I'm pretty impatient, you know...)
- Electronic Telegraph
- EL PAIS - a national Spanish newspaper.
- ITN News - this is surely my favourite Real Video site on the web.
- BBC Online - not as cool as the ITN site, but still lots of stuff to see.
- BBC World Service - Home Page - you can listen to the World Service news on-line.
- FOX News - US news site. A nice change from CNN anyway. Great Real Video options.
- SportsWeb - good up-to-the-minute sports results.
- AltaVista: Translations - this is great! Usually quite accurate, occasionally rather silly, but always much quicker than translating via a dictionary.
- Mr. Showbiz - all the latest news and gossip from the entertainment industry.
- 95.8 Capital FM - a bit of a crazy site, but quite fun.
- This is London - lots of London stuff, from the people who bring you the Evening Standard. Unlike buying the paper version you don't have to put up with men shouting 'standard' and 'late' at you.
- Suffolk Internet Radio - if you don't live in Suffolk then this will be of little interest, but hey, I'm trying to support my home county, OK?
- Galicia TV - the only Spanish TV station, to my knowledge, which has a live Real Video service. Congrats to them! Not the most fascinating station, unfortunately...
- Teletext -TV Plus - complete UK TV listings.
- Eventsonline - guide to UK cinema, theatre and other ents.
- London Directory - search for London stuff.
- UK Streetmaps - handy if you want a London street map.
Weather
- Olé! El Tiempo Valencia - what's the weather like in Valencia?
- CNN - Weather - Valencia - does the CNN forecast agree? Of course not.
- CNN - Weather - London - the weather back in London.
- CNN - Satellite image for Europe
Spain
- Olé! - lots of fun stuff here, including on-line chat.
- Fallas de València 1998 - this guy takes much better photos than me.
- Turisvalència - find out about the nicest part of Spain :-)
- Generalitat Valènciana/Tourist information and Routes... and more here.
- Spain online
- Olè-Net!
- TUSPAIN
- Real Spain directory
HTML/Internet Stuff
- Hotwired - current web issues. Lots of cool (or not) HTML tricks appear on this site too.
- Internet World
- Web Developer
- Builder.com
- HTML Writer's Guild
- Project Cool - from the same people who made Cool Site of the Day - although the word 'cool' tends to mean just 'cool graphics' you can find some great sites here.
- Jeffrey Zeldman and Dr. Web - great HTML advice and hints.
- The Useless Pages - and you thought my page was bad?
- WebPagesThatSuck - self-explanatory!
- The Web Design Group
- Jodi.com - challenging some ideas about HTML...
- Anybrowser campaign - campaign to get rid of those silly 'best viewed with' banners.
- HTML Goodies
- Website Resources
- HTML for the Conceptually Challenged - a good place to start with HTML.
- Cross-Browser Dynamic HTML - DHTML is beginning to look pretty cool. I'll have to learn it!
- Free web space - find somewhere to put your web masterpiece.
- Validator - an on-line HTML validator. I really must check my site one day...
- Bobby validator - a slightly different HTML validator.
Javascript Resources
I'm not a huge fan of javascript, but I admit that the 'mouseover' command is cool. Here are some handy sites:
- the Javascript Planet - hundreds of examples to steal...
- Cut-N-Paste JavaScript - and more here.
- JavaScript Resources
- Steal My JavaScript - (good title that!)
- Javascript Tetris - crazy but true. You don't even need Java enabled.
Web Graphics
Various graphics-related things mixed together here.
- The Graphic Station - free stuff for your website.
- SUNET's Index of Icons - a huge list of Mac icons.
- INFO-Mac Icons - ditto (check your local Info mac mirror site)
- IconFactory - some of the best icons live here.
- IconTown - had enough icons? Here you can live in a town made of icons.
- IPIX - 3D immersive photos.
- Web Clip Art
- Andy's Art Attack! - great site for free web graphics.
- Free Graphics - and more here.
- MOZCO ! - ditto.
- Icongraphics
- GIMP homepage - a Photoshop-type graphics program for Unix/X-windows. Haven't tried it, but looks excellent.
- The Corporation - have a look at their icon gallery for some 'awards' you can give yourself.
Mac websites
My entire website was made with a Mac. Hooray for the Apple Mac!
- TUCOWS - excellent shareware/freeware software archive. Hundreds of mirror sites, so no probs downloading files. I use this Swedish Tucows site.
- Sunsite (UK) - another huuuuuge archive.
- ChezMark's MacPicks - one of my favourite places to keep up to date with the best new Mac shareware.
- ZDNET Mac page - be sure to visit their download page with the famous '5-mice' ratings.
- MacShareware - more excellent shareware here.
- INFO-MAC HyperArchive - the mother of all Mac archives, but you'll need to know what you're looking for before coming here.
- Info-Mac mirror - one of the many info-mac mirror sites.
- Macfixit - try this if your mac bombs.
- Tikkabik - Mac games news and reviews.
- Shareware top10
- Mac Surfer - latest Mac news etc.
- MacWorld on-line - excellent Mac news and info. Usually a nice cartoon on the front page too :-)
- The Mac Hangout
- MacAddict Network
- My Mac Online
- Tidbits
- Shockrave - you'll need lots of RAM to run these web games, but some are quite fun.
- MacSport - sports games for the Mac.
- Macintosh OS
- Applelinks - Mac news and links.
- Insanely Great Mac!
- Macs Only!
- Power Macintosh Resource Page - aren't there lots of Mac sites?!
- Oddities Curios and Rarities for Macintosh - lots of weird things for your Mac.
- MacReview
- Mac OS Rumours - read about things before they happen.
- Apple History - learn about really old Macs (maybe you are still using one?!)
Movies/TV
- Internet Movie Database - without doubt the most awesome movie site on the web. Note, there is also a US Mirror site.
- Hollywood Online - reviews/news and so on.
- Mars Attacks! - the BEST film ever made!
- Vampires . . . No Interviews - a page dedicated to another cool film, "From Dusk Till Dawn"
- Seinfeldiest - a great Seinfeld site. In case you were wondering, Seinfeld is one of my favourite TV shows! Pity there are no new episodes being made :-(
- Star Wars - the official site, with news of the forthcoming prequels.
- Mike's Star Wars Page
- Lethal Weapon 4 - oh no, not another one!
- Entertainment Page's Trailers
- Aardman Animations - the home of Wallace and Gromit! Try here too.
- Garfield
- Beavis and Butthead!
Fonts
I enjoy fonts a lot, strange as it may sound. Some fonts have lots of character.
- Internet Font Archives
- Font Archives
- Astigmatic One Eye Fonts
- Chank fonts - nice fonts here.
Misc
- Don Barnett - a really stunning website. Go have a look!
- Blue Sky Heart Graphics - a great site to look at.
- Paolo's Page - homepage of Dr. Paolo Celani, a friend of mine at the Univervity of Stuttgart.
- FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives - check your mugshot is not on this page.
- The World of Spectrum - retro-gaming. Bring back the days when games ran in 48k RAM!
- ZX corner - and more here.
- the Dilbert Zone - hmm, I seem to visit here every day. If you think you had a bad day you can be sure that Dilbert had worse. Make sure you visit the 'list of the day'.
- Empty Web Site - weird, eh?
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