WEB INDEX
Index of all sites
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a2bTravel
If YOU’re planning a holiday, this is an excellent resource centre. There’s information about flights, accommodation, timetables - there’s even a mileage calculator so you can work out exactly how far you have to drive for that beautiful break in Blackpool. Or maybe not.
A 2 Z
Want to know how smart your child is? Or maybe you already know, and you want to make some improvement. A 2 Z provides games, puzzles and interactive challenges for the young ones among us. There are even Mensa tests.
Abbey National
Advertising
The history of advertising over the past 50 years. Most of the best adverts are from the US, but the history of commercials through the ages makes fascinating reading.
The AA
Help you to plan a route or book a hotel.
Amazon bookshop (UK)
They advertise 30% off selected titles.
Over 1.2 million titles.
Secure payment on all major credit cards.
Global deliveries.
Art
Barclay Square
One of the most successful British malls, which prides itself on its secure shopping environment. In fact, if there is any fraudulent activity on your cards because of a Barclay Square transaction, the company will “reimburse you for any outstanding liability.”
Barclay Banking
9648650
Barclay Card
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Bartlett’s has been a mainstay of the “compleat” reference library for many years. Every desk should have one. And every Net-connected computer can. The good folks at Columbia University’s Project Bartleby have made an early (1901) edition of this handy work available on the Internet. It’s fully hyper-linked and completely searchable. You can find pithy quotes by keyword or by author (from Adams to Zouch). If you’re interested in quotes from a particular period, the authors are even listed chronologically. The search engine can be customized by power searchers. The only drawback: the resource stops at 1901. Of course, some folks think that nothing worth quoting has been said since then . . .
BBC
BECTA British Educational Communications and Technology Agency
Blackstar video store
A great looking site, easy to navigate, and full of video bargains. Delivery is free to any destination in the world. so the price you see is the price yu pay. Probably the best UK video site.
British School of Motoring
A site to help you pass your driving test. It has an interactive theory test.
BT - Read your BT telephone bill
Instead of worrying what your BT telephone will be when it drops onto to door mat you can constantly keep checking your bill. You will need your customer account number which will look something like MY53907811 and, of course, your telephone number.
BT Telephone Directories
If someone is on BT and isn’t EX-Directory then you will be able to find their number.
Business connections with Bradford
Business Studies
CDNow
CDNow was one of the first on-line CD stores and it paved the way to giving customers added value by offering brimfuls of information about the albums you want. The site includes album reviews, band facts, RealAudio song samples and recommendations from the Album Advisor.
CD Universe
Often the cheapest of all the on-line CD stores. CD Universe is packed with titles and offers comprehensive album reviews, track listings, song samples in RealAudio format and recommends which other albums you might like, based upon your current selection.
CD WOW
Possibly the cheapest cd’s on the net (£8.99 inc postage!)
Chambers Electronic Encyclopedia
Channel 4 Learning
Cinema Channel
This site from Virgin brings you all the latest news and reviews from the world of the big screen. See what’s hot and what’s not. You can also check out times and locations of films.
Clipart.com
Never be at a loss for quirky illustrations for your home page again. Here’s a huge database of sites offering Clip Art.
CNN
The Corbis Collection
The Corbis Collection stores over half a million photographs. Just type in a key word on any subject and in seconds you will be presented with massive list of images. This vast archive of photography is free for personal use.
Daily Telegraph
Design and Technology
DfEE Department for Education and Employment
Discover Railtrack
This site includes journey planning for days out, downloadable lesson ideas, a safety quiz, historical information from the National Railway Museum at York and many other activities related to rail travel.
Driverzone
This site enables you to swot up on the theory test and is packed full of practical advice on honing those three point turns.
English
Electric Library
Simply enter a question and the Electric Library will search through newspapers, magazines, books, reviews and photographs to supply you with an answer.
Electronic Telegraph
Not only does the Electronic Telegraph provide you with the latest headlines, but there’s also an excellent archive of features you can search through.
Electronic Zoo
If you have any questions about animals - domestic or otherwise - this is the place to come.And you don’t have to watch any mad lions pacing up and down.
Entertainment Express
Slick site with a good search function and a variety of video chart lists - for example, the Top 50 Best Sellers or the Top 50 Sport and Fitness. Free delivery in the UK.
Fiancial
Bloomberg
Financial Times
Money Extra
Money World
Motley Fool
Nasdaq
This is Money (Daily Mail)
UK Invest
Investing For All With Alvin Hall
Share dealings
No commission, no charges
Films
Foreign Language Translator
This site will translate your text into main foreign languages or even translate the text on another web site.
First go to the foreign web site and copy the address. Then go to http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com and paste the address into the box provided and click the translate button. Text is translated into English! Brilliant!
Geography
Geocities “It’s a community thing”
Geocities can provide you with 10 mb of free web space provided you are over 16 years of age. You will have to suffer some advertising but by careful writing of a web page you can have it inserted at the bottom of your page. Geocities is divided up into communities and each community has a particular theme. Athens is the educational area of Geocities. To find a web space you have to go house hunting. Go into a particular neighbourhood and look for an empty house. If you like its location then you register it for yourself.
The first web page you create must be called index.html - when Geocities launches your site it looks for a file called index.html. (It’s like having autoexec.bat on a PC).
Netword.com
Visit this site and change your long Geocities name to a such smaller one to make it easier to remember :
eg http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/4579 can become http://www.netword.com/EdulinksUK
It’s easy to do and very worthwhile.
Geocities - File Manager
Geocities - Geoguide Manager
Geocities - Counters
GNER
The Great North Eastern Railway runs trains from Bradford to London. If you want to get your own personal timetable for a train journey then just follow the simple instructions on the screen.
Government
An index of all the government agencies
Governors - DfEE
Graphics Station
If you require any graphics or animations for your web pages this is the site to visit. Recommended!
Guardian
The 1999 Guinness Book of Records
Halifax Banking On-Line
Healthy Lifestyle
History
How Stuff Works
An excellent site which explains how technology works. Lots of illustrations and easy to understand explanations.
Holidays
Homework
HMV
Find out what the latest offers are in your local HMV store, and also search for titles, and read the latest news and features.
Houses - Top Property Websites
Use Upmystreet and Multimap to look at the government statistics about an area and the location. You just need the postcode.
Fish4homes
Assertahome
08004homes
Easier
Properytfinder
Homedirectory
Homemovers
Askdaisy
Rightmove
Propertyworld
Find out the price of a house when it was last sold
Hyperhistory
Hyperhistory is a web version of the World History Chart, which lets you click on sections to learn what was going on in the past.
Index of Industries (UK)
If you know the first letter of the company you wish to locate then this list will display a comprehensive list of companies. Ignore the password.
Internet Public Library
A vast collection that works just like any reference library, the only difference being you are guided to Web sites, and not books. With a kids and teens section, this is an excellent resource centre.
JobSite UK
A top place to come if you’re unhappy with your present job situation. Claims to have 20,000 entries a month, and there’s a thorough search facility.
A site with lots of downloads for you to try out. Divided into sections, it is easy to find what you are looking for, and a search facility lets you find out if it’s available.
Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
London Transport
Information about the underground system including timetables and fares.
A to Z of Museums
If you want to find a museum you will find it here.
Master Texts
This site contains the full texts of literary masterpieces.
MP3.com
Get news, software and hardware information the excellent MP3 music format. You can also download some tracks from here.
Multimap
A site which features maps of the whole country, together with links to local restaurants, hotels and landmarks. Just type in your postcode and you can find out what is showing at your local cinemas.
MuseumNet
Useful guide to what’s on at the UK’s museums and galleries.
UK National Lottery
The official National Lottery site
Newspapers on-line from Europe and the US.
This excellent site lists all the world’s major newpapers
NGfL National Grid for Learning
NGfL National Grid for Learning - Bradford LEA
Ofsted Office for Standards in Education
Pictures from the Past
An incredible selection of pictures from the first 75 years of photography is the main attraction on American Museum of Photography, a gallery that only exists online. Pictures of grand events such as Lincoln’s funeral can be found alongside shots of everyday life in 19th-century, providing a fascinating glimpse of America’s past.
Projects and support for Bradford Schools
Houses - Top Property Websites
Use Upmystreet and Multimap to look at the government statistics about an area and the location. You just need the postcode.
QCA Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
QXL
One of the best auction sites around. QXL (formerly Quixell) sells a wide range of equipment (computers, electrical equipment, holidays) with prices starting at £1.
Railtrack
If you want to get your own personal timetable for a train journey then just follow the simple instructions on the screen.
Discover Railtrack
This site includes journey planning for days out, downloadable lesson ideas, a safety quiz, historical information from the National Railway Museum at York and many other activities related to rail travel.
Royal Mail
Find out peoples post-codes
Sainsbury’s Virtual Museum
This excellent site traces the development of this famous store. The site is the ground floor plan of a museum which operates on two levels. Use the stairs to move between them. The Virtual Museum has many intereseting sections which display information for students and resources for teachers.
SCOOT
Looking for a joiner or plumber? Whatever you want ,wherever you live.
Space - the complete site
This website contains all the links to the best sites connect with space and astronomy.
Standards and Effectiveness Unit
Streetwise
Road safety / walking to school and environmental issues.
Telegraph & Argus (local newspaper for Bradford & District)
BT Phone Net UK online phone directory
192 Enquiries People and business search
The Trainline
This website will tell you the best connections for your destination and the cost of the ticket. You do have to register but this will only take a few moments.
The Times Educational Supplement
This Day in History
A great site from the History Channel that looks at what happened on the present day in history. You can also see what happened on your birthday.
National Tramway Museum - Crich
Tucows
An excellent site for finding free software.Descriptions and graded by the number of cows.
UCI cinemas (UK)
Order your tickets before you go to the cinema to ensure you can get in. There is an admin charge of 45p per ticket. Have your credit card ready.
UK Telephone Directory
If you know a person’s name and the city they live in you can find their telephone number for free!
Unbeatable
A website which boasts unbeatable value on brand-name products. A safe site for buying goods over the internet.
UpMyStreet
A site which gives you all the government statistics about a given postcode.These can be compared against the national average or against another postcode.
Valient Roamer
The manufacturer has now created a site which has some excellent resources to support the use of the Roamer in the classroom.
Virgin Trains
Richard Branson may not be able to make his trains run on time, but he’s got the website to run smoothly. This site offers all the information you’d expect on train travel - perhaps the most useful feature is the online timetable and booking service.
Webguide
BBC guide to non BBC websites.
World Climate
With just a few quick searches, you can find out what the typical weather is like in thousands of places all over the world.
World Charts
Find out what’s topping the charts in a wide variety of subjects, and then link up with them.
A virtual library to search for resources on a wide variety of subjects.