Tourist Attractions
- Tampa Bay, Florida. The beautiful area where I spend most of my
time. Some sources of information to help you enjoy this great vacation
spot on Florida's West Coast.
- Salem, Massachusetts. I'm a snowbird, spending the winter months
in Palm Harbor, Florida and the summer months in Salem, Massachusetts,
a great tourist site having a lot more to see and visit than just
those having to do with witch trials. Some helpful sites to refer
to when visiting this town. 5/1/06
Travel  
- Absolutely
Florida. Travel site just devoted to Florida vacations, leisure
and recreation.
- Airlines. Toll
free numbers and websites. 1/20/04
- Amtrak's
Rail Sale. If you
enjoy traveling by train, discover the discount fares Amtrak
offers.1/9/99
- Belize.
In December 2005, my wife and I took a cruise, making a stop at
this small Central American country of Belize. We enjoyed our day
there so much that we're looking forward to our next return. Especially
liked the Butterfly farm. 1/15/06
- CIA
(Central Intelligence Agency).
I am considering taking a trip to Croatia, but before I pay the
tour company, I want to learn all about this country. Is it dangerous
to travel there? Any special pollution problems or other health
concerns? What language is spoken? Population? Religion? And
scores of other questions. I'll turn to the CIA's Factbook website
for answers on Croatia and any other country I could possibly
wish to travel to. 4/7/06
- CDC -- Center
for Disease Control and Prevention. Find out what inoculations, vaccinations
you need and other health precautions when traveling to Russia, China,
India and other countries. 10/10/98
- CitySearch.
Similar to Sidewalk, but gives more specifics on restaurants, events
and entertainment. 11/21/97
- Click-It! Weekends.
If you’re ready to take off on a short vacation at the spur of
the minute, check out this site. Can find hotel rates and availability.
Even reserve your room with your credit card, and receive e-mail
confirmation. 12/11/97
- Cybercafes. Find out the
location of Internet cafes in the cities you'll be visiting around
the world. Internet (cybercafes), usually for an hourly fee, will
give you access to the Internet and the ability to e-mail messages
to your relatives back home. 5/23/01
- Driving directions. You'll seldom get lost if you get driving directions
from Mapquest or Maps-on-Us.
Better yet, if you are a member of American
Automobile Association (AAA), be sure to try the AAA site. You'll
need to log in with your AAA membership number to access the best
of this site, but even if you are not a member, you can still get
driving directions. 2/11/05
- Elderhostel Home
Page. Senior citizens can learn about Elderhostel sites and courses.
12/11/97
- Excite.
Provides the basics on more than 5,000 destinations. 3/28/01
- Fodor’s.
An all purpose site similar to Expedia’s. Let’s you customize your
own guide for 87 cities.
- Flight Tracker and TrackFlight.
Check out the expected arrival time of a flight. Even shows map indicating
where plane is. If you don't have the flight number but know the
departure city and approximate take-off time, this site will help
you determine flight number. 3/18/01
- Google Local. When I
first tried this site on Feb. 27, 2006, I was amazed at the results.
Just typed in my home address and got a detailed map of the surrounding
areas. Then I could get driving directions from my home to any local
address I selected. Great source to refer acquaintances to who are
looking for directions to your home. Can even get satellite view
of your location. Can also get listing and directions by category
(e.g., movies, pizza) to local entertainment and businesses. 2/27/05
- GORP (Great
Outdoor Recreation Pages). Information, maps, photos of U.S. national
parks. Find out which allow overnight camping. 11/21/99
- Hotels.com
- Hotel Reservations. Book
a hotel room in more than 25 major cities. 3/16/99
- Massachusetts
Bay Transportation Authority. MBTA. If you're traveling from
Salem to the North Station in Boston near to the Museum of Science,
here is where you can find the weekday
train schedule and the weekend schedule.Both
schedules were revised April 24, 2006. 6/5/06
- Microsoft
Expedia. Get an
overview here of attractions, hotels, restaurants, and events
in cities you might visit. 3/27/01
- National
Park Service WWW
Server — for details about national monuments, parks, historic
sites. 11/21/97
 Photos. Use
Flickr to view thousands of photos taken from around the
world. After a free sign up, you can use this site to display
your own photos. Planning a trip to any of these place? Look
at photos taken by other visitors at places I hope to visit in
the next year:
Beijing,
China. Hiroshima,
Japan.Ho
Chi Minh, Vietnam. Bangkok,
Thailand. Singapore. Taipei,
Taiwan. 3/31/07- Playbill
Online. If you
plan to visit a city and would love to go to the local theaters,
see this website for theater listings in more than 100 cities
in North America and Great Britain. Includes reader reviews and
seating charts for most New York theaters. 11/21/97
- Sidewalk.
A Microsoft website that gives big city residents a close up look
at their own hometown attractions. 11/21/97
- Smarter Living. Tracks
online travel bargains. 4/11/2000
- Tampa Bay On-Line. Help on relocating
to Tampa Bay, including employment, apartment information. 8/10/01
- Tampa
Bay cities and towns. Get information on towns and cities within
the Tampa Bay area. 8/24/02
- Toll
Free Airlines 800 numbers. 7/8/01
- Traffic
Just for the Tampa Bay area
- Traffic Station. Drivers
can check on local driving conditions before departing. Helpful in
avoiding construction and accident tie-ups. 3/18/01
- Travel
Channel Online Network — for chat, bulletin boards, and photographs
all related to travel. 3/27/01
- Travelocity — this
is the spot to make reservations and obtain travel tickets. 11/21/97
- Travel Warnings & Consular
Information Sheets. With threats of terrorism rampant, take the trouble
to check out the safety of your overseas destination. 8/28/98
- Warm Mineral Springs, FL.
1.4 acre kid friendly mineral springs, great for swimming and wading. Phone
number, address -- helpful in driving to the Springs. 13/14/05
- Yahoo’s
Directory. Will
link you to visitors’ information centers in cities around the
world.6/18/05
Web Pages — Creating Your Own
- Angelfire. Allows creation
of free website. No need to know html here. Easy insertion of a counter
that shows you the number of times people have accessed your website.8/15/98
- AOL Press. At this site,
you can get a free download of a program that works just like a wordprocessor
to create a webpage 3/27/0
- Blogging. How to create your own personal webpages without having
to learn any special programs. 11/30/05.
- About
Parenting and Family has a good article on blogging and
gives seven popular free blogging sources. 2/8/06
- Blogger.com. This
site owned by Google makes it easy to create your own online
journal, sharing your opinions with the world. According to the
November 14, 2005 issue of Forbes magazine, Blogger.com "attracts
15 million visitors a month." And Blogger reports that "A
blog is your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post
thoughts, interact with people, and more. All for FREE." 11/30/05
- Definition of weblog from Wikipedia.
- LifeJournal.
- TypePad. Gives
you the tools to publish on the Internet. Costs about $5 monthly.
11/12/04
- Weblogs from Tampa Bay Online.
Examples of weblogs from Tampa Bay in Florida. 1/6/04
- Wizbang Blog
awards. Voted the best blogs.
- Blogging -- finding
great blogs. With millions of blogs on the Internet, it's no easy
task to find those that many consider outstanding. Use Alltop to
help you in your search. I especially like the way Alltop divides
the blogging world into categories, making it easy for you to select
your favorite topics. 4/14/08/
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Style sheets are an easy way to uniformly
change the formatting of the fonts, color, spacing, and more of a
single page within your website or at once change the the formatting
of all the pages in your website. 6/19/05
- From the WC3
homepage -- the leading source of Style Sheets information
from the World Wide Web consortium.
- Web
Design Group suggests sources helpful in creating Style
Sheets. Be sure to read cautions on
using Style Sheets that could make your webpages unreadable
to certain viewers.
- Tutorials on
creating Style Sheets, from Page Resource.com
- Tutorial from
the University of Arizona.
- FortuneCity.Com. Gives
20 megs of free storage space without charge, but will run a large
ad at the top of your webpage. Also provides on-line easy to use
software for creating your own site. 10/24/99
- FreeGraphics for
your webpage. Add clipart to your site. 3/16/99
- High ranking in search engines, especially Google. How to get
your site listed at the top of search hits:
- Historical view of websites. Use WayBackMachine to
see what thousands of websites looked like years ago. Here, for example,
is what the St.
Pete Times website looked like on December 19, 1996. 1/19/08.
- Homestead. Easy way to
create and host your website for as little as $4.99 per month. Don't
need to know html.
- Additional free website storage sites along with easy-to-use
software to create your own webpage.2/15/05
- How web servers
and the Internet work? 4/25/99
- HTML
from Dave's site.
Includes tutorials not only on HTML, but also CSS
(Cascading Style Sheets, Website
Design, and the Internet. 5/18/05
- HTML
tutorial from The
Maricopa Community Colleges.5/18/05
- HTML Validation. This site
will check out a website that you create to point out errors in your
HTML code. 9/10/98
- Images.
What you should know about images to insert them into Webpages. Includes
when to use gif format instead of jpeg. 3/22/05
- Netscape
Tutorial on Web Page Creation. Use Netscape Composer, one of
the programs in the Netscape Communicator package, to help you
create your own webpage without knowing HTML.
- Third Age.
Easy way to create and store a webpage. Third Age is for older adults
-- probably 40+. 3/14/05
- Yahoo/Geocities
(free) . Allows
creation and storage of free web pages. Also free e-mail account.
The free website though will come with advertisements placed
on your site by Yahoo/Geocities. You might be better off considering
a professional
package that requires a monthly fee, but offers your own
domain name, tools and wizards to create your site, and most
importantly, freedom from advertisements.5/5/05.
- Register your website with popular search engines without any cost: Google, Yahoo, Open
Directory Project.
If you registering a commercial site, you cannot use Yahoo's free
registration. 1/22/08
- Yahoo
domain name registration. For less than $10 annually (as
of May 11, 2006), you can get your own domain name and a webpage
along with tools that make it easy to create a webpage.This is
a sample
webpage similar to what you might create for a minimum cost
using Yahoo to register your domain. You could also use your
Yahoo starter webpage to forward the reader (domain
forwarding) to another website you have already created under
another domain name. 6/10/06
- WebMonkey gives
lessons for kids on creating webpage. Not only will youngsters
benefit, but anyone learning the basics regardless of age will
find these lessons helpful.2/7/06
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