BEST OF THE WEB
 Acme Pet |
Top honors in the Consumer/Personal Resources category go to Acme Pet, for over-the-top content that's packaged to use. Acme Pet bulges with arguably the largest collection of links to pet information and pictures on the Web, plus spe
cial resources such as a free pet lost and found, cool pet site of the day, eight pet chat rooms, Pet Times News, a holiday gift guide, and more.
The gargantuan collection of pet links is grouped into guides for dogs, cats, fish, horses, birds, herps (reptiles), and exotics, with each guide further organized. The cat guide, for example, is arranged by products, services, clubs, a great collectio n of general and breed-specific Web pages, personal pages for cats and their owners around the world, Internet forums, chats, Newsgroups, and e-mail lists, a show and event calendar, toxic plants info, and a vaccination schedule.
Visitors can browse endlessly or find their pet topic immediately, because Acme Pet has three means of getting from deer to hare. The top page offers amusing graphical buttons, standard hypertext links, and a straightforward search engine where you sim ply type a word and press Find.
Acme Pet organized an overwhelming amount of great information into an inviting, fun package with extraordinary access and special resources that visitors will love. Way to go!
 The Travel Channel Online Network |
The Travel Channel Online Network is one of the most enticing sites on the Internet -- a beautiful design wrapped
around exciting real-world destinations. Besides television program information, Travel Channel Online offers a bulletin-board area where you can share experiences with other travelers; a six-room chat area; a user photo gallery and photo contest; articl
es from prestigious travel newsletters; a searchable database of 26,000 pages on tourism, hotels, guides, adventure travel outfitters, cruise lines, and more; a special database of 75 golf resorts; and links to other sites of interest.
The most breath-taking feature of the Travel Channel site is its Weekly Spotlight, with glorious in-depth presentations on specific destinations such as Egypt; Israel; Plymouth, Massachusetts; and Normandy, France. Spotlights can include history, sight s to see, places to eat and stay, shopping, culture, recipes, and destination-specific information about visas and passports, emergencies, customs, credit cards, traveler's checks, currency, embassies, measurements, time differences, calendar dates, ident ification, electricity, drugs, crime, tipping, and travel advisories.
The Travel Channel Web site is rather new, and there were only 15 weekly Spotlight destinations at the time of the I-way 500 awards. When more Spotlights accrue to the site, it will doubtless take many first-place trophies.
 A World of Tea |
Even the visitor who says tea isn't his or her bag will admire the style, wit, and zest behind Stash Tea's World of Tea site. A tastefully austere top page leads to tea history from 2737 BC through today, tea in the news, things to re
ad while sipping your tea, a bed and breakfast guide of over 1,000 inns, a weekly snapshot of the world tea market, and an online tea catalog.
There's a tea-cart of cold recipes like Casablanca Cooler, Fiji Iced Tea, Sea Captain's Punch, and Coconut Tea Ice Cream, and a few hot ones such as Chocolate Mint and Red Delicious Herbal Spiced Cider.
The real hot spots are tea-related quotations, from Lu Tung to captain of the starship Enterprise Jean Luc Picard ("Tea. Earl Grey. Hot"), and a section called "You do WHAT with tea???" This page details the accounts of tea drinkers who spike their gar dens with tea leaves, or wear empty peppermint tea foil packs on their noses while changing the cat's litter box. You can contribute writings to the Tea Time Reader, or tell the world about your bizarre uses of tea and its accoutrements in "You do WHAT?" Well done.
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| 4. The Body: AIDS and HIV |
A plethora of information constrained in a neat, navigable, and readable package. Topics cover what AIDS is, who gets it, safe sex and prevention, hot-lines, service organizations, conventional treatment developments, alternative medicine, diet and nut rition, quackery, mental well-being, legal and financial Issues, AIDS art, upcoming events, political action, and a collection of AIDS memorial pages visitors add via electronic forms.
| 4.(tie) Disability Resources |
Extensive collection of links for people with disabilities and those who care about them. The site includes careers and jobs, medicine/health, legal issues, government and nonprofit resources, commercial links, Internet info, recreation/entertainment/l ifestyle, universities/education, information for children with disabilities, special sections on various kinds of disabilities, and links to other mega-sites and specialty areas.
| 6. Financial Aid Information |
Scholarships, fellowships, grants, loans, and tuition payment plans are just the beginning at the Financial Aid Information page. Here you can calculate the amount your family will probably need to contribute, read up on financial aid scams, and look i nto studying abroad. This well connected site is maintained by the author of The Prentice Hall Guide to Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science Students, however the advice is useful to all.
| 6.(tie) Patient's Guide to Carpel Tunnel Syndrome |
This site has great images and descriptions of the anatomy, diagnosis, and various treatments of carpal tunnel syndrome, which can include a brace, medication, injection, or surgery. You can even download an animation of surgery to relieve pressure on the median nerve -- a splendid use of the medium.
| 6.(tie) Foreign Language for Travelers |
Specify your native language and one of 17 destination languages, then choose from Basic Words, Numbers, Shopping/Dining, Travel, Directions, Places, or Time and Dates to get a short but useful list of words. Click to hear words pronounced. Take a quiz . The kind of site you'll show friends to get them on the Net.
| 6.(tie) Books That Work |
Unearth useful tips on gardening and landscaping, read about outdoor projects such as French drains and sprinkler systems, discover indoor repair and improvement hints, and find online forms for estimating quantities of paint needed and calculating max imum allowable span for floor joists in residential construction. The useful and attractive samples come from Books That Work's line of home/garden CD-ROMs.
| 6.(tie) Psychology Self-Help |
Alzheimer's disease, Tourette syndrome, autism, eating disorders, chronic pain, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, snoring, and dozens of other maladies are listed here and linked to sites offering multiple resources to explain, point the wa y, or provide comfort and support to the sufferer or his or her loved ones.
| 11. Used Car Buyer's Checklist |
Here you'll find a hypertext list that covers mechanical, interior, and exterior inspection; engine start-up, running, and test-drive; tools to bring for inspection; ownership verification, and more. Includes sample bill of sale and odometer statement. The Sunday paper and this checklist could net you a healthy, happy set of wheels.
| 11.(tie) Consumer Fraud Alert |
Consumer Fraud Alert tells you all about sweepstakes scams, fraud and the elderly, Yellow Pages invoice rackets, online investment schemes, telemarketing reloaders, illegal new credit files, magic pills, and more. Even if you think you know it all, you can bet someone close to you doesn't. The site provides good tools to help you share important information with children, teens, parents, and grandparents.
| 13. Cancer Guide by Real Person with Cancer |
There might be no better guide for a new cancer patient than one from someone who's already been there. Steve Dunn spells out the pros and cons of researching your own disease, talks about confronting statistics (with references to The Median Isn't the Message, by Stephen Jay Gould), and shares insights that you won't find elsewhere.
| 14. PALS (Pets Are Loving Support) |
Learn how to set up a volunteer organization that enables AIDS patients to keep their four-legged companions with them at home. Volunteers feed, walk, and clean up after patients' pets. PALS touches on staffing, fund-raising, organizational development , health risks to people with depressed immune systems, and safe pet guidelines.
| 15. Soc.Couples.Weddings WWW Page |
The best shared wisdom from the soc.couples.weddings Usenet newsgroup, with a comprehensive hypertext FAQ, plus special pages on everything from bridal-bargain updates to wedding-planning software, bridal emergency kits, and ethnic and Renaissance/SCA weddings.
| 16. Eddie Eagle Child Gun Safety |
Make sure your children know what to do when they encounter one in someone's home (even yours!) or at school. This site explains the politically neutral Eddie Eagle safety program, which is available free or at low-cost to schools and civic groups.
| 17. Food Safety |
Topics provide information on home canning, holiday food safety, fish and fishery products, preserving, freezing, and drying, and a 39-image slide show with script on food irradiation.
| 18. Facing Huntington's Disease |
Huntington's disease affects both the body and mind over a period of many years. This site helps families understand the illness, plan for various stages, and decide when to impart information to the family member with the disease.
| 18.(tie) Language Learning at CMU |
The Language Learning Resource Center at Carnegie Mellon University offers pages on Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese. Russian, and Spanish. It links to tutorials, city guides, online dictionaries, viewing other alphabets, and more.
| 20. Electronic Zoo |
Didn't get enough fur, fins, and feathers at the Acme Pet site? "Electronic Zoo" is a mega-menagerie of animal resources that adjoins NetVet, an I-way 500 winner in the Professional Resources category.
| 20.(tie) Over the Coffee |
You can almost smell the aroma of mocha at this site, even though the FAQ says there's no such thing! Get recipes for latte and biscotti, locate cyber cafes, read opinions about espresso machines, and pore over coffee classifieds.
| 22. Self Breast Exam |
Embarrassed to ask exactly how to perform a self-breast exam? These clear words and simple drawings can help.
| 22.(tie) LifeLink Disaster Prep |
Learn how to prepare for almost any kind of disaster. Planning guides and checklists in easy-to-use format. The site includes a special page on disasters and your pets, children, the elderly, and people with impaired mobility.
| 24. City Net |
City Net has links to sites for 1,174 cities and 584 other destinations. Anyone can add sites, which include city guides, community organizations, restaurants, government, transportation -- whatever says "my town."
| 25. Prostate Cancer InfoLink |
Can you avoid it? Should you be screened? This site helps explain the disease and its treatment, and lists support groups.
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