Tips and Tools - Canadian Social Research Links

Tips and Tools
Updated March 11, 2000

MAKE CANADIAN SOCIAL RESEARCH LINKS YOUR STARTUP PAGE

This site is a launchpad to thousands of websites.
If you want the main page of this site to open every time you start your browser, do this:
Netscape:
Starting with the menu at the top of your browser, click -- Edit - Preferences - Navigator - Home Page - Use Current Page
Internet Explorer:
Starting with the menu at the top of your browser, click -- Edit - View - Internet Options - General - Home Page - Use Current.

CANADIAN SOCIAL RESEARCH NEWSLETTER

Check out the What's New page to get a feel for the type of information you'll find throughout the site. If you like what you see, subscribe to the mailing list to receive a weekly message listing all the new links just added to this site.

WEB PAGES BY E-MAIL!!

Quickbrowse (this is an external link)
"The ultimate Portal: Combine your favorite sites into one page."
Highly recommended!
This is a free online tool for people who visit specific web pages on a regular basis. You set up a list (or lists) of Internet addresses that the service retrieves (the actual pages) and sends to you all in one e-mail message. If you have an HTML-enabled mail reader, you can click on active links in the pages; if not, you can have the pages sent to you as attachments. You pick the web pages, Quickbrowse sends them to you (with or without graphics) as often as you stipulate. For example, I created a list with the URL (Internet address) of each provincial and territorial welfare department's website's What's New page, and stipulated that I wanted an e-mail with the complete set of pages every morning at 5AM.
BOOM. I just saved twenty minutes of clicking around to get the same info!
You can also call up your list at anytime and ask Quickbrowse to send you the pages by e-mail immediately.
This will save you a lot of clicking - try it!
Click on the Quickbrowse link above, then on "Quickbrowse - start" to set up your lists.
[If your best attempt at figuring this out is unsuccessful, send me an e-mail message explaining the problem and I'll do my best to help you to activate this excellent service...]

An expired link means that something that was once there is now gone. The site may well have moved to another address on the Internet, and sometimes the old page even has an automatic redirection mechanism to the new page. Unfortunately, though, webmasters are whimsical people - they sometimes just yank a page without checking to see if it's OK with everyone who has that page bookmarked. The Internet is dynamic. What's there one day may be gone the next.
If it's worth bookmarking, maybe it's worth saving to your hard drive.

FRAMES

I HATE FRAMES.
'Nuff said. Always choose the non-framed version version of any site that offers both frames and regular pages. Otherwise you can only bookmark the main page, because all pages on the site are displayed within the window of the first frame, and the URL does not change.