A young man tells his story of visiting "ground zero" after a horrific terrorist attack on the World Trade Center buildings in Manahattan, New York. Will the world ever be the same after this surprise attack?
Meet some students from Virtual University and travel around the world with them to visit their home towns.
A short, historical tour of "The Hollywood Walk of Fame". Visit the popular hot spots, studios and sites of interest in this fun city.
Hop on a cruise ship and sail through the Miraflores Locks at the Panama Canal. A web-cam at the canal will bring the trip to life!Hop on a cruise ship and sail through the Miraflores Locks at the Panama Canal. A web-cam at the canal will bring the trip to life!
Join a Cruise Hostess on an around the world cruise to various foreign ports and receive wonderful travel tips from an experienced world traveler.
Because of it's popularity, this touching web site will remain up permanently to honor all of the men and women who have given their lives while serving our country with courage, pride and dedication and to those who have given and are currently providing military service to protect our freedom and allow us to live in peace. Please remember our POW's and MIA's!
A unique collection of prose, poetry and reflections on life.
For friends and family from out-of-town who couldn't celebrate this special day with this young couple, they are enjoying seeing the festive occasion on their home computers.
A non-profit organization in Los Angeles, California funded by private donations and Grants to install gardening programs at low income and inner-city public schools.
Follow Cleo the kitty around as she introduces her family and home to you.
Buster the kitty, talks about his adoption, his sister Cleo and their new lifestyle.
Interactive fun for kids of all ages featuring original and colorful animations. Put a 'little one' on your knee and "sing along" to favorite and popular children's songs, meet two little kitties with a tale to tell, write an original story and play some games. Or, just relive your childhood and have fun!
Modern technology brings a young couple's "Wedding Album" to the Internet to share with family and friends around the world that couldn't be with them on their special day.
Take a stroll through "Daisy's Garden" -- meet her family and friends that help keep it in bloom and check out some great links to interesting Internet programs and fun places to visit.
Meet a young high school track star and follow her grueling competitions to the regional and state championships.
Visit Julie at Colorado State University where she has accepted a scholarship and been recruited as a member of the Women's Track Team.
A family searches for it's roots and relatives.
~ TUTORIALS ~
This web site was created as an "Index to Answers" of the most "frequently asked questions" from the Virtual University HTML classes. These Tutorials were created by the instructors and students to answer questions regarding basic HTML, graphics and programs that will make web page design and creation easier. As more questions are asked, more links will be added. Bookmark this site and come back often!
Backgrounds are made up of either .gif or .jpg images that are placed in the opening tag using the attribute BACKGROUND="image.gif". The key is to get the image to "tile" without seams showing so that it looks like one continuous background wallpaper. This Tutorial explains how they work and how to create Border Backgrounds.
AOL users apparently face their own unique set of problems with web page creation. Because of this situation, a special "AOL Support Team" was formed for the Winter 1998 Spectrum Virtual University HTML and Web Page Design class. We hope that these resources will be beneficial to other web designers that may be having similar problems with AOL.
"Border Backgrounds" are backgrounds that have either a solid color strip or graphics that usually run down the left side of the browser window. The "trick" is to get your text and other graphics to fit on the right hand side of the screen without running into the border! Sometimes you might want to use a solid color border to hold your navigational menu, graphics or links to other sites. There are a few different ways to set your HTML code for borders -- this Tutorial demonstrates a very simple one.
Borders can be placed on the left side of your web page or on the right side. This web page Tutorial demonstrates the difference in a left side border image and a new similar image used for a right side border. The HTML TABLE Code for using both border effects are listed.
What is an animated graphic? How do they work? Why do they take so long to load? How can I make my graphic bigger or smaller? What type of software program do I need to create animations?I have received a lot of questions related to animated graphics and decided to create this web site to try to clarify some of them in an illustrated and easy manner.
A common mistake among web page designers (new and experienced) is not "reducing the bytes" and actually "resizing" an original large image into a "thumbnail picture". This tutorial demonstrates how to make and use a thumbnail image as a hyperlink to allow for quicker download time of your web page.
There are a number of ways to create lists using "images" (icons) instead of "bullets" or "numbers". These lists can be used as links to other web pages. This tutorial gives some examples and the HTML code used to create these effects.
Acronyms are abbreviations often used in IRC and E-mail to express a feeling or thought and save time typing an entire phrase. Those funny little "symbols" that often appear in E-mail and on IRC are "Emoticons". These "expressions" are used because you can't see the person who is sending you a message and you may be uncertain whether they are serious or joking with you. This is a list of a few of the more popular ones you may see.
PIRCH is an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) program for Windows95/98 platforms and Windows NT. IRC is used to "chat" with friends in "real time" on the Internet by typing messages back and forth that appear immediately on your computer screen. This tutorial will help you download and set-up the PIRCH program on your computer.
A listing of former HTML student pages from the Virtual University HTML, Graphics and Web Design classes. This site includes class projects from the past six years and special "Tutorial" and "Resource" pages created by the students.
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