Great Web Sites

Last modified 1/28/07

Here is a collection of sites that represents the best stuff on the web.
If you have a site that you would like to see on this list, please let me know.

Arts

• Photography by Garth Catterall-Heart
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Musee Du Louvre-Paris
• National Gallery of Art
• Norman Rockwell Museum
• Online Photography
• Shutterbug Magazine - The latest on photography

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Auctions

• AOL Web Centers - Auctions
• Amazon.com
• eBay
• uBid.com
• Yahoo! Auctions

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Autos

• About.com - Autos
• AutoTrader
• Autoweb
• Excite Autos
• MSN Autos

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Books

• Amazon.com
• Google Book Search
• NY Times Book Review
• Barnes and Nobles

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Business

• Business.gov - the official business link to the US Government
• Business-Inc.Net - web directory
• IBM Global Services
• Netscape Money and Business
• Small Business Resource - Total Small Business Resource for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Services include, Internet marketing, business grant, cash flow, business planning, business advice, quality assurance and more.

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Charity (see also Non-profit Organizations)

• American Red Cross - disaster relief and other great charitable programs
• Faith Trust Institute.org - (formerly The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence)- offers training and resources on prevention of sexual and domestic violence.
• Habitat for Humanity - buiding houses for those in need.
• La Casa de las Madres - offers emergency residential shelter to battered women and their children in San Francisco
• The Hunger Site is the world's first "click-to-donate" site where more than 65 million visitors have donated more than 7,700 metric tons of free food to help feed the hungry.

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Computing

• Hardware
  • Apple Computer
  • Buy.com
  • Dell
  • Dev Hardware - Hardware reviews
  • Gateway
  • HP
  • IBM
  • Silicon Graphics
  • Sun Microsystems
• Information
  • About.com - Computing/Technology
  • CNET.com
  • Internet Guide - Explains the basics of the Internet, web design, viruses, search engines, and provides a glossary of terms.
• Software
  • Adobe
  • Apple Computer
  • Download.com
  • FileMaker Inc.
  • IBM
  • Microsoft
  • RealNetworks
  • Runtime Revolution
  • The Learning Company
  • Tucows

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Education

• About.com - Education
• College.net - all about going to college
• Education World
• Family.com
• How Stuff Works
• The Learning Annex
• US. Dept. of Education

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Entertainment

• ABC.com
• About.com - Entertainment
• AOL Web Centers - Books, Music & Movies
• Columbia House
• Disney
• The Internet Movie Database
• Moviephone.com - Showtimes & Tickets
• Movies.com
• MSN Entertainment Channel
• music365.com
• Yahoo! Music

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Finance/Investing

• Alta Vista Money
• Excite Money
• MSN Money
• Netscape Money and Business

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Food & Cooking

• About.com - Food and Drink
• About.com - Home Cooking
• AOL Web Centers - Food & Cooking
• Chefs.com
• Food Network
• iVillage - Home and Food

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Games

• Games.com
• MSN Gaming Zone
• Yahoo! Games

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Garden

• About.com - Gardening
• AOL Web Centers - Home & Garden
• Garden.com
• GardenGuides.com
• GardenWeb.com
• GardeningByTheMoon.com

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Government

• Federal Trade Commission
• Small Business Administration
• White House
• US State Department

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Health

• About.com - Health/Fitness
• Drugstore.com
• Excite Health
• Health.com
• HealthBoards
• HealthCentral
• Healthfinder.gov
• Health on CNN.com
• Dr. Dean Edell
• iVillage Total Health
• Mr Long-term Care
• MSN Health and Fitness
• Netscape Netcenter Health
• OnHealth.com
• Vitamins.com
• WebMD

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Jobs/Careers

• About.com - Jobs and Careers
• CareerBuilder
• Yahoo! HotJobs
• JobBank
• Lycos
• Monster
• MSN Careers Channel

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Legal

• AOL Web Centers - Legal
• Elder Law
• Find Law.com
• Free Advice.com
• LA Law Online
• LegalTech - law.com dictionary
• Nolo: Law books, legal forms and legal software

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Maps

• Google Maps - the first of these that offered a satellite view of any part of the earth. You can use it as a map, get directions or search for web listings in a certain geographical area.
• MapQuest - my personal favorite for mapping and directions - and getting better all the time.
• Yahoo! Maps - also getting better all the time. I find the ads more annoying though.

News

• ABC News
• Alta Vista News
• CNN Interactive
• Excite
• MSNBC
• New York Times
• San Jose Mercury-News
• USA Today

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Non-profit Organizations

• American Red Cross
• Amnesty International
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America
• The Humane Society of the United States
• The Hunger Site - Donate Food for Free
• March of Dimes
• National Parks and Conservation Association
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• NetAid
• The Nature Conservancy
• Save the Children
• Special Olympics
• United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF)
• U.S. Committee for UNICEF
• VHI Save the Music
• The Wilderness Society
• Wildlife Habitat Council
• World Wildlife Fund

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Portals/Search Engines

• About.com
• AltaVista
• Ask.com
• AOL
• Excite
• alltheweb
• Go.com
• Google
• HotBot
• Looksmart
• Lycos
• MSN.com
• Netscape
• Snap
• Webcrawler
• Yahoo
• Yahoo! Kids

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Real Estate

• Realtor.com
• Yahoo! Real Estate

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Relationships

• About.com - People and Relationships
• Excite Dating and Personals
• Go Ask Alice
• iVillage - Love and Sex
• Relationships.com
• TeenRelationships.org

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Religion/Philosophy

• About.com - Religion and Spirituality
• Myth, Religion, and Philosophy
• Philosophy of religion
• Religion and Philosophy
• Religion-online.org - Full texts by recognized religious scholars

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Research/Reference

• Dictionary.com
• Google Reference
• iTools.com's Research Tools
• RefDesk.com
• Reference.com/
• Wikipedia.org- the best on-line encyclopedia .
• Yahoo! Education Reference

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Science

• BioTech's life science dictionary
• PhysLINK.com - Physics and Astronomy
• Sciencemag.org
• Scientific American

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Shopping

• About.com - Shopping
• Amazon
• Buy.com
• GreaterGood.com - benefits non-profits
• eBay
• Froogle
• MSN Shopping
• Office Depot
• OfficeMax
• Pricegrabber
• Shopping.com
• Yahoo! Shopping

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Small Business

• Allbusiness.com
• Businessweek.com
• Entrepreneur.com/
• Microsoft Small Business Center
• Smallbusiness.com
• SmallBusinessDepot - Corporate and Government Contracts
• US Small Business Administration

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Sports

• ABC Sports
• About.com - Sports and Recreation
• CBS SportsLine
• ESPN.com - simply the best site for all sports
• Excite Sports
• MSNBC Sports
• NBA.com
• NFL.com
• NHL.com

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Television

• ABC
• CBS
• DirecTV Guide
• Fox
• NBC
• MSN TV Guide
• TV Guide Online
• Yahoo! TV

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Travel

• About.com - Travel
• Alta Vista Travel
• CNN Travel
• Excite Travel
• Expedia - discount tickets
• Orbitz - discount tickets
• Travelocity
• Travel.org
• New York Times Travel
• Yahoo! Travel

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Web Page Creation

• A List Apart
• Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• Creating Killer WebSites
• NetMechanic
• Search Engine Watch
• SiteExperts.com
• StatMarket - Internet User Analysis
• The Web Developer's Virtual Library
• Webmonkey
• Webmonkey Guides
• Webreference.com
• W3C HTML Validation Service

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Weather

• The Weather Channel
• Intellicast

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Weddings

• Ultimatewedding.com/
• Weddingdetails.com/
• Weddingsolutions.com/
• Weddingchannel.com/

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Women

• iVillage.com - The Women's Network
• National Organization for Women
• WomensNet.Net

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