SEARCH ENGINES WEEK 5:

EVERYBODY'S GOIN' SURFIN', SURFIN'...uh...ah...SURFIN' CYBERSPAAAAACE.
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Makeovers for Home Page Wallflowers! It's Your Turn to Be Beautiful!

Hosted By: Reynilda Cortez
Lori Morita

Hidey ho there! For those of you just joining us, this is our cheesy prologue, where we make you feel like the family you ran screaming from! Yes, we are your Aunty Agnes, your Uncle Lolly, your Grandmama who coughed until UH won a WAC football game! And we're sending you a big, sloppy, CyberKiss, so pucker up bay-bee!

Now that we've scared all the tourists away, today, we're going to explore some favorite places to surf found on the Internet, and the Search Engines that are in them.

But buckle up, buttercup, cause the fun doesn't stop there: We're going to show you some search areas that will transform any homepage into a Home Page! Yes, we're talking backgrounds, images, sounds, sights, and all for just $9.99! (Okay, we know we can't charge, but we tried.)

In fact, here are some testimonies of Wallflower homepages that have become Big, Bold, and Beautiful with these search areas:

From Wimpakneekee, Wyoming:
My family couldn't believe it was really me...they all kept asking if I'd lost weight, but I honestly owe it all to WebDocs! Thank you, WebDocs!

From Mantra City, California:
We have broken out of our shell, and entered the truth of Cyberspace. We present our true selves to all in an earthly manner with The Imaging Machine.May you all feel the emptiness that is your true self. The Imaging Machine, The Imaging Machine, The Imaging Machine...oooooohhhhmmmm.

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You know, we're the average American Family, and so when my son here told me about some fancy-shmantsy WebSite for Background Images and the average American can of Spam could use it right well. We thank you.

As you can see, many people have hooked up and used HomePage Beautiful! We, the Search Engine Central Team have used our resources to find stuff we at Search Engine Central need--ways to perk up the office (our page is kinda simple...okay, okay! Really simple, alright?). These sites are easy to understand, have ukuzillion examples, and downloadable graphics for all.

For die-hard graphics artists, we also found the Imaging Processing Service. But be warned: it takes forever to download, folks. Is it worth it? What do you think? Let us know how long it takes you. A super-quick graphics producer is the Interactive Graphics Generation Page, which has humor and some of the easiest ways to produce lines and bullets AND with some creativity, other graphics too. A definite stopping point. Back up some to HTML Authoring, and get a list of interactive services that will hold your hand through it all.

For those of you looking for useful surfing areas, one of our favorites (heck, at this point, they're all damn good; why the tag? It's Harvey, our office manager's fault. He tells us to write this stuff.) is a whatever-youse-guys-want-these-guys-gots index, courtesy of Kevin Bogan. You can check out Temple of Bogan if you really want, but it makes us feel insecure. Need an HTML editor? Hook up to The Consummate Winsock Apps List, courtesy of Texas Networking, Inc., trial run an HTML editor (they've got a whole bunch, folks) and feel the wind in your hair as you type weekly reports. They've got ratings on different programs, but there's a free trial period on most programs, so yes, YOU MAKE THE CALL. (I felt very footballish for a second. Shut up, Harvey.)

Another awesome surf-site comes in at Netmind, a resource for free services on the WWW. There is a mirror site in Europe, and you can put your e-mail address in for updates on free services. The list goes on and on, but one that was tres fun was Carlos' Coloring Book. It's too fun to tell you. Check out this link!!!

We found a link (and maybe wished we didn't) that frustrated the hey-diddle-diddle out of Team Search Engine. If you can handle the language, gd 1.2 is a powerful tool for creating GIF images. Wanna play God, anyone? It looks like anything you dream, you can draw from this program. It was way too technical for us. But if you're a certified USDA NetHead, this is just for you, Boopsie.

Psychology majors, smile! We found a site on the Web that may rub you happy! Check out the Newsgroup for the Discussion of Personality Typing Systems, take a Myers-Briggs personality inventory on the net and find out who you REALLY are. (No, not the gypsy story again.)

New Search Engine! Welcome to Harvest Search Engine, a search engine that uses relatively little disk space and is used by the folks at University of North Carolina.

New Search Engine! Harvey the Village Idiot (actually, he's our office manager, but what the heck, same difference) was getting drunk (everyone's got to have a hobby), and he screamed, "I found the WORM!" Naturally, we all said, "Great, Harvey, you are Mr. Man. Yeah." However, we could smell that he wasn't drinking tequila. So we asked Harvey nicely (we are true Americans) what the hey he was talking about, and he revealed a little gem: The World Wide Web Worm, rated 1994's Best of the Web's Best Navigational Aid. They must have a big plaque, or really tiny font. It's pretty easy to use, and fairly straightforward. One drawback: it's not as snazzy as new engines like Galaxy, or Lycos. Still worth a look-see, and produces useful search results.

Any-hoo (either people hate the phrase or they love it--go figure), we have more up-to-the-minute reports on our live cam. If you feel we've violated any FAA laws, or any other acronym, you can check out a legal listing we're compiling. But you've gotta check it out from the site: Rey's Legal Advice. But HEYHEYHEY! No sue jobs! We're taking care of Harvey already...we don't need any more moneyleeches!