Hot Spots on the Web...

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Top 10 DHTML resource sites

  • Dynamic HTML Lab – This popular site contains practical DHTML techniques, a 'Dynomat' online script builder, forum, newsletter and expert help.

  • DHTML Guru Resource – Want state of the art? The Guru Resource is as polished as it gets. You get Tutorials, a DHTML reference and feedback on your own DHTML-enabled site.

  • Jeff Ruleís DHTML Demos – A slick site containing cross-browser demos galore. Features include techniques used in Discovery Channel Online, IE5 DHTML and SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language).

  • Inside DHTML – A rich, community-based site packed with information for DHTML codeheads. Includes a library, cut-and-paste code, discussion forums, newsletters, fun and games, and a trophy room.

  • Project Cool Developer Zone – Project Coolís site features plenty of lessons and a useful CSS reference table highlighting browser support issues.

  • DHTML Zone – Macromediaís superfly support resource for its products. This graphically rich site includes tutorials, trophy room, forum, demos and Shockwave help.

  • Netscape DHTML Developer Central – Netscapeís take on DHTML features useful and friendly tutorials using day-to-day examples.

    Microsoft Workshop – Encyclopaedic in proportion, Microsoftís offering features the latest techy know-how in a surprisingly easy to navigate site.

  • The Dynamic Duo – This comprehensive reference site contains practical walk-throughs, tips and tricks, a lively forum, and links.

  • Developer.com – A comprehensive and up-to-the-minute reference and tutorial resource featuring IE5ís new .htc behaviours.

Life Online

Jobs Online

  • Jobs Unlimited – One of the Guardian's new collection of sites, this one used to be RecruitNet. Jobs Unlimited lets you search all of the newspaper's job and course ads. To help in your job hunt, you can also set up a personalised Career manager, where the search engine will pull out and store suitable ads for you. Very smart.

  • Top Jobs on the Net – Updated on a daily basis, this site encompasses seven disparate countries, but concentrates on the UK market. It allows you to narrow down your search quite a lot before it goes off looking for vacancies. And it will email you if any suitable employment comes up.

  • Job Search – This is a site that has been around for a while now and so one that knows the ropes. Submit your CV for free or browse the huge the number of vacancies collated from an equally large number of recruitment agencies.

  • Career Mosaic UK – One of the original Internet job databases and still going strong due to its simplicity. Just stick in your criteria and away you go. Bets not to be too complicated in your search parameters, though.

  • Work Web – WorkWeb is the Internet access to the UK Vacancy Database. It also provide a "jobs by e-mail service" to keep you informed of the latest jobs and holds a candidates database which is available to prospective employers and agencies. A very straightforward site that is easy to navigate.

  • CityJobs World Wide Limited – CityJobs is a UK-based operation, which exists to bring City employers and high-calibre job-seekers together, "with the minimum of paperwork" - always a good thing. You don't have to register to browse this site or to read the Financial, Media, IT-Contract or IT-Permanent Jobs Sections, but you do have to sign up, and submit a CV. The site can also help you acquire a free, private, personal email account, if you're worried about using your work address.

  • Recruit Media – Recruit Media is one of the UK's leading consultancies for creative or a techie types looking for a job. Now, it can also help if you want to find work in the financial, commercial or business information markets. The site was launched in 1995, though it's had a couple of revamps since then. Currently, you can access information on nearly all of their permanent vacancies online. You're given detailed instructions on how to apply by email, and each post has a direct link with the consultant handling the vacancy. So at least you know that when you register, you'll be dealing with a real live human being.

  • JOBADVERTS.COM – Launched in late February, this is a newcomer has been set up to give UK job hunters a comprehensive site on which all services are free. There;'s an email alert service, a message board and a 'whinge' forum where you can sound off about the crappy nature of the being unemployed or in a badly paid job. The site also performs news and information role by offering details of employment law as well as business and travel news.

  • JobSite UK – JobSite claims to be one of the leading multi-sector sites in Europe, and to back this up has recently introduced more services for the non-IT jobseeker. You can search through vacancies from leading recruitment agencies and employers, both by keyword, and by industry sector. If you are willing to register, You can also submit an electronic CV, and receive email updates by registering at the site.

  • DOTjobs – Brought to you by Miller Freeman and United News & Media, the people behind DOTmusic, this site has all the latest jobs from their titles. These include Electronics Times, The Engineer, Food Manufacture, Packaging Magazine and Printing World. So if you fancy a career in magazines that doesn't involve you surfing the Web all day, try them. You can search by topic, and given its simple lay out, it's a breeze to if find the kind of jobs you're looking for.

  • Reed Online – One of the best-known high street recruitment agencies, with over 250 branches, Reed claims to offer one of the largest sources of jobs on the Internet - including temp and part-time vacancies. The site is easy to use, and has a broader range of categories than some of its rivals. You can also find out about courses, and try your hand at those sinister-sounding psychometric assessments, meant to aid your job quest.

  • The London Careers Net – If you're looking for work in the capital, this site, from the publishers of Midweek, Girl about Town, Ms London and Nine to Five, isn't a bad starting place. These freebie magazines usually dished out at Tube stations feature thousands of job adverts, from all the leading agencies, and the site aims to showcase the best of the bunch. You can go straight into a job search, or browse via each of the magazine titles.

  • The Employment Service – The official site of the Department for Education and Employment's employment service, this is where you'll find details of UK Employment Centres, and government initiatives such as the New Deal. If you're signing on, and thus, a "Jobseeker", It's a useful site to know about, even if there aren't any jobs actually featured here.

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