Reviewed November 1998
Review by Walter Scales
TERENA
(Trans-European Research and Education Network Association) has an
excellent site
(http://www.terena.nl/libr/gnrt/index.html)
which unfortunately labours under the rather forgettable sobriquet Guide
to Network Resource Tools (GNRT). Don't let its name put you off, though,
this is a friendly, well-organised guide to searching on the Internet,
email, netiquette, and to 101 other aspects of using networks. What I
particularly liked was the unpatronising and subtle way it caters for all
levels of competency. As far as I could see, all the pages have been
written specially for the Guide and read extremely well. Unusually for a
resource such as this, I didn't spot a single syntactical or spelling
lapse. There is a consistent look and feel, universally accessible and
easy-to-read rather than state-of-the-art. Navigation is clear and
consistent by contents style prompts on the left of the page and links
across the top of the page. The site glossary could perhaps be updated a
little, and is not always visible (rather lean, but sensibly confined to
terms that an ordinary computer user might not be all that familiar with).
FTP is mysteriously buried all by itself in 'Other Tools' rather than in
the 'Communication' section. But all in all, it is an excellent site for
recommending to people who know one end of a computer keyboard from the
other but who would nevertheless like a quick handle on things Internet.
Reviewed by: Walter Scales
Material on this page is copyright Ariadne/original authors. This page last updated on 10-Dec-1998