Publisher's Synopsis
Expanded and revised, "Walking the World Wide Web", second edition, is a comprehensive guide for mining the Web's multimedia treasures. More than 30% new, it features more than 500 listings and an extensive index of servers, expanded and arranged by subject. Turlington reviews and describes hundreds of the most interesting, colourful and informative Web sites; old sites have been removed and new ones added. She offers experienced advice - showing readers how to save money and time while online, how to determine what's worth spending time on and how to go directly to what's most interesting.;Linking together a vast resource of software, graphics and information archives on unlimited subjects, the World Wide Web (WWW) is the invisible network within the larger network of the Internet. Users who successfully travel the Web can tap into a vast source of full-colour graphics, sound, video and text resources, as well as create true multimedia documents for the very first time on the Internet. "Walking the World Wide Web" is written in an informal tone - a user-friendly "tour guide" of the best and most widely used resources on the Internet.