'Nettools favored by Internet Literacy Consultants

CERN HTTP Server

A full-featured, free, WWW server for almost any flavor of UNIX. Made in Switzerland.

Netsite Commerce Server

Does secure (encrypted) transactions between the client and the server. One of our projects, the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog uses this server.
Made in USA.

NCSA HTTPd

Server written by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the same place that produced the original Mosaic. Version 1.4 of their server has greatly improved performance over earlier versions. Does server-side includes too.

Webgen (tm)

Ever wanted to do database publishing on the web? Webgen transforms your FileMaker Pro, FoxPro or similar database to HTML complete with level after level of index pages.
Created by ILC and Bonsai Software

Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week

by Laura Lemay. This is the book we recommend for learning and using HTML. Includes references tables that we use even after we know everything :-) We recommend this book to almost every one of our customers.

Adobe Pagemill

It doesn't suck. Yes it has bugs and a quicky interface, but we think this is a really good program, and recommend it to our clients.

FreeWAIS-sf

A version of the FreeWAIS software that handles documents with fields. FreeWAIS is a package for indexing and searching large numbers of documents across networks. There is also a commercial version by WAIS Inc.

SFgate

Forms-based interface for using FreeWAIS with a web server. Claims to be self-documenting. We find this amusing. We've written something that actually works. We'll be giving it away soon.

Brian_Gate

We currently don't have a better name for this piece of software which is based loosely on SFgate -- a program we find somewhat difficult to use efficiently. Brian_Gate is a web interface allowing one to query a WAIS server (FreeWAIS-SF) via the World Wide Web, do so in a simple and intuitive manner, and receive fully sorted output. You can see this software in action at LucasArts and Macworld (see our clients page).

Livingston Routers

We use the model IRX-111 as do most of our customers. The model IRX-211 is popular where high-security is an issue (it has 2 ethernet interfaces so you can segment your ethernet).

Getstats

A very complete package for analyzing server log files.

WWWstat 1.0

Creates statistics from web server logs. Here are ours.

Todd's Collection of HTML stuff

HTML up the butt. Ow.

CU-SeeMe - Live Video Conferencing

This is cool. Works even at low speeds (14,400bps)

X-Mosaic Fill-Out-Forms Help

Several pages long. Caius or (Todd?) found this...

Test script for CGI-BIN stuff

This is a little cgi-bin script we use for testing porpoises.

Imatek - low-cost Routers and CSU/DSU's

These folks make inexpensive boxes that connect your LAN to the Internet at speeds of upto 128Kbps. The "OnRamp DSU-Router" combines a CSU/DSU with a Frame-Relay capable router that will do packet filtering, for a list price of $1195 (US).

MOMSpider

A UNIX package that verifies links in your HTML and creates a nice report for you. MOMspider is made up of PERL code, and requires that you install the libwww-perl package first.

C J Silverio's Rant about Why the Web Sucks

Ceej is an articulate evangelist for the real best use use of the Web: To connect people to each other, as a means for human expression.

gifscii-2.2

Ever wanted to change those favorite gifs of yours into ascii art? Here's the program for you. You might call this no-frills programming and it sure isn't user friendly, but it works...

How to set up Domain Name Service

On UNIX systems that use in.named, e.g. SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.x, Irix 5.x, and so forth. Assumes you know how to move around the file system and edit files.

Table of ASCII Values

What's the code for a Vertical Tab chararacter anyway?

Table of file formats found on the Internet

You need to use a table-friendly browser to view this. It lists all the common filename extensions, like .txt, .ps, .gif, .gz and so on and tells you what they are and how to view them. Mac, Windows 3.1, and Win95 software is covered.

Tcl/Tk

Tool Command Language is a scripting language that we have found very useful.