Firstly, if you've never used the Internet before then check out the Using the Internet section on the useful online tutorials page.

This page is meant to be an introduction to the resources available to you on the Internet. It'll take you through what in our opinion are the most useful web sites on the Internet.

Web Site: CNN News

URL: http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/

Description: World news.

Web Site: BBC News

URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/default.stm

Description: World news.

Web Site: About

URL: http://www.about.com/

Description: The sites cover more than 50,000 subjects with over 1 million links to the best resources on the Net. Topics range from pregnancy to cars, palm pilots to painting, weight loss to video game strategies.

Web Site: Yahoo

URL: http://www.yahoo.com/

Description: A super site giving access to thousands of other useful sites on the subjects of news, computers, entertainment, science, arts etc.

Web Site: MSN

URL: http://www.msn.com/

Description: Another great super site, features include local and international news, free email, web directory, web search, shopping and chat rooms.

Web Site: Google

URL: http://www.google.com/

Description: A very good search engine.

Web Site: Altavista

URL: http://www.av.com/

Description: Another very good search engine. Also has a translator and a web directory.

Web Site: Lycos

URL: http://www.lycos.com/

Description: Yet another good search engine and web directory.

Web Site: Atlapedia

URL: http://www.atlapedia.com/

Description: Atlapedia Online contains full colour physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.

Web Site: Encarta

URL: http://encarta.msn.com/

Description: A very good online multimedia encyclopaedia.

Web Site: Wepopedia

URL: http://webopedia.internet.com/

Description: The only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology.

Web Site: Learn.com

URL: http://www.learn.com/

Description: Thousands of online courses on subjects from arts and literature to food and drink.

Web Site: Study Web

URL: http://www.studyweb.com/index2.htm

Description: A categorised and reviewed collection of over 162,000 links to educational sites.

Web Site: English site

URL: http://www.englishsite.com/

Description: Online English language tutorials.

Web Site: Homework Elephant

URL: http://www.homeworkelephant.co.uk/

Description:Over 5000 carefully selected resources to assist with your homework problems.

Web Site: Fact Monster

URL: http://www.factmonster.com/

Description: A fun and educational site for kids. Features include news, homework help, dictionary, encyclopaedia, atlas, games and quizzes.

Web Site: Prongo.com

URL: http://www.prongo.com/

Description: Prongo.com is a Fun, Interactive, and Educational way to Learn, it has free online games, quizzes, clip art, e-cards, kids jokes, and more.

Web Site: Bonus.com

URL: http://www.bonus.com/

Description: Bonus.com is a free, one-stop centre of entertainment for the entire family. It offers a protected playground of Internet content, featuring hundreds of games, puzzles and other activities.

Web Site: Discovery Health

URL: http://www.discoveryhealth.com/

Description: An interactive, easy to use site covering all areas of your health.

Web Site: Web MD

URL: http://my.webmd.com/

Description: Another very good health website.

Web Site: The Hunger Site

URL: http://www.thehungersite.com/

Description: A site where you can donate food to people who need it, just by clicking. There's no cost to yourself, its all paid for by the sponsors.