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The Basics of Building Web Pages and Sites 1
TABLE 1-1
Informational Web Sites
Site URL
AcqWeb’s Directory of Book Reviews on
the Web
acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/
acqweb/bookrev.html
AnyWho www.tollfree.att.net
Catalog of Solar Eclipses sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/
SEcat/SEcatalog.html
CIA World Factbook odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook
CIAC ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/index.html
Dead People Server www.dpsinfo.com/dps/
Indiana Department of Agriculture ai.org/oca
Internet Traffic Report InternetTrafficReport.com
King Arthur and the Matter of Britain legends.dm.net/kingarthur
Letters and Dispatches of Horatio Nelson wtj.com/archives/nelson
Sir Francis Drake www.mcn.org/2/oseeler/drake.htm
Veterinary Information Network vin.com
Political sites
Sites that have a political agenda to push aren’t limited to dealing with particular candidates
for certain offices in election years. Politics isn’t all about elections. In our definition, such sites
also include those with any social agenda that would be furthered by the passing of appropriate
legislation. Thus, Web sites covering issues such as gun control, the medical usage of marijuana,
development of wetland areas, or the control of personal information on the Internet — regardless
of whether the site’s editorial thrust is for or against — would qualify as political sites.
Figure 1-9 shows the Web site for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at
www.democrats.org. It could be argued that it is, in fact, an organizational Web site, repre-
senting as it does the DNC, its views, and activities. Because those activities are strictly political,
however, it belongs here.
Table 1-3 provides the URLs of several political Web sites.
Commercial sites
This is the one simple, unambiguous area in the taxonomy — if the site is created strictly out of a
profit motive, then it’s a commercial site. Period. Other sites — particularly political sites — often
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