Mining the Treasures of the World Wide Web

Ventana title includes on- and off-line browsing options

Chapel Hill, N.C., January 9, 1995--Ventana Press, publisher of The Windows
Internet Tour Guide and Mosaic Quick Tour, announces a new cyberbook that
helps readers mine the World Wide Web's multimedia treasures. Walking the
World Wide Web: Your personal guide to great Internet resources, by
Shannon Turlington, reviews some of the most interesting and diverse
examples of what the Web has to offer. The book's CD-ROM, with Ventana
Mosaic, and the Online Companion offer off- and on-line hyperlinked
versions of the book, adding to the ease and enjoyment of surfing the
Net.

The book opens with a general introduction to the World Wide Web and a
brief tutorial on installing and navigating with Ventana Mosaic. Walking
the World Wide Web then reviews more than 300 of the most interesting Web
sites, including home pages for countries, states, cities and other
places, including the Moscow Kremlin and the White House; educational
resources such as the Interactive Frog Dissection Kit; entertainment
updates such as the world's largest movie browser; and business sites
including the Micro-Brewery of the Month Club, QuoteCom, storefronts,
malls and business centers. Each review contains a short description of
the site, where it's located, who maintains it and how to get there.

Additionally the book features a select database of more than 500
information-rich Web servers, which is continually updated in the Online
Companion.

The Walking the World Wide Web CD-ROM contains a copy of Ventana Mosaic,
developed for Ventana by Spyglass, Inc., distributors of NCSA Mosaic, the
acclaimed World Wide Web browser. The CD-ROM also contains the searchable
full text of the book. Readers can develop an itinerary off-line at their
leisure, then log on and use this hyperlinked version of the book to
point-and-click their way through some of the best of the Web, or
automatically connect to the Internet by selecting a live Internet link
from the CD-ROM-based listing.

The book's Online Companion, developed by Ventana Online and residing on
Ventana's World Wide Web server, features a sampler of the sites from each
chapter of the book. The URL for the Walking the World Wide Web Online
Companion is http://www.vmedia.com/wwww.html. Also, a continually updated
online version of the book, with annotated hyperlinks to each site, is
available via a key code obtained from an individualized card inserted in
the book.

The World Wide Web is an invisible network within the larger network of the
Internet that links resources on the Internet, including sound and video
elements, together into an interconnected net of information. Web
documents are written with Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), which
creates "links" within documents to different parts of the same document
or to other documents.

Links transform HTML files into three-dimensional documents, allowing the
user to follow threads of interest. Every document on the Web eventually
links to every other document through HTML links, putting the "web" into
World Wide Web. Today, the Web is the most widely used, fastest-growing
area of content on the Net, with more than 1,200 servers added weekly.

Walking the World Wide Web: Your personal guide to great Internet resources
is 350 pages, illustrated, with CD-ROM and an Online Companion. ISBN:
1-56604-208-9. Suggested retail price: $29.95. For orders in the U.S.
only, call 800/743-5369.

Author Shannon Turlington edits Cyberkind, a Web-based magazine of
Internet-related fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She prepared the Appendix
resource guide to the second edition of The Internet Companion
(Addison-Wesley), contributed to Internet Roadside Attractions (Ventana
Press) and edited books published on the Web, including Bless This Food by
Adrian Butash, the first trade book published on the Web.

Ventana Press and Ventana Online are divisions of Ventana Communications
Group, Inc., a diversified publisher of computer-related information
tools. Ventana Online supports Ventana products with Internet-based
content and context. Ventana Press publishes books and other materials
that help computer users become more productive, including The Mac
Internet Tour Guide, The Official America Online Membership Kit & Tour
Guide, Voodoo UNIX, The System 7.5 Book, The Visual Basic Power Toolkit
and Looking Good in Print. All titles are available in bookstores and by
writing Ventana Press, PO Box 2468, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27515; by calling
Ventana's toll-free order line, 800/743-5369; by faxing Ventana at
919/942-1140; by e-mail via orders@vmedia.com; or via the World Wide Web
at http://www.vmedia.com/index.html.

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