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Internet Development Guides
This set of Internet Development Guides will help Australian cultural workers and cultural organisations discover why they should use the Internet, how they might use it, and how to develop an Internet presence.
Note: these Guides were developed initially for Australia's Cultural Network, which has now become the Culture Portal, and are currently under review. Some references and links may be out of date.
Notes on using these Guides
Where there are 
globes in these Guides it means the related hypertext link will take you outside these Guides - either to another part of the Culture Portal website or to a website outside the Culture Portal altogether. To get back to the Guides, use your back button.
If you are using these Guides offline, the hypertext links with globes will not work. You can check them out next time you are online.
For something particular you can use the 'Search the Guides' search box at the bottom of every screen of the Guides. On the left of every screen there is a menu which will quickly take you to the main topics in the Guides.
For definitions of unfamiliar terms visit FOLDOC - the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing.
If you want just a quick introduction and you don't know much about the Internet, go straight to Guide 1. Otherwise, click on any Guide. While it is recommended that you do the Guides in sequence, this is not necessary.
Use the Download area to obtain versions of these Guides to use offline.
These Guides can also be used as a basis for workshops or seminars to help develop a strategy to make the transition to the online environment.
Click on a Guide below to go to that Guide. The first screen of each Guide outlines its contents. A full list of the contents of these Guides can be found in the Table of Contents.
Guide 1. What's in it for me?
Guide 2. What is the Internet?
Guide 3. What can I do on the Internet?
Guide 4. Is the Internet for my business?
Guide 5. What will I do with my website?
Guide 6. How do I get connected?
Guide 7. How do I create my website?
Guide 8. What do I need for my website?
Guide 9. I'm online. Now what?
Guide 10. Where can I get help?
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