Tools and Services for Members of Hermes Internet

The services listed below are available for our members only – to enter click on the arrow on your left, or CLICK HERE. The next screen will ask for your user name and password.

Please have a look at the list below, and compare it with what your ISP offers. If you would like to join Hermes Internet, please select Services from the menu above.

Account Management

	check your account status from Web form or by sending a special email message (detailed session logs: time on line, data transferred, cost, totals)
	renew your membership (buy more hours)
	change your password
	local news groups – what news groups are maintained by us, how they work, and how to use them
	autoreply – an email service for those who go away for some time, but who do not want their email correspondents left without any replies
	how to make a file available to someone on Internet

Hermes Web Mail

Service for people on the run. Have you ever wondered if it might be possible to read/send/reply to one's mail while away from home or office, without reconfiguring someone else's mailing software?

Now it is possible. When you are at an Internet cafe, airport, friend's home, even on the other side of the globe at a computer with a browser, you can point the browser at http://www.hermes.net.au/cgi-bin/checkmail.pll and deal with your mail. You can test how it works also from your home or office.

HWM is also accessible from our home Web page, just click on the picture of ancient Greek boat.

E-mail Services Help

For quick help on all e-mail services offered (how to: use mailing lists, get your sesion logs by e-mail, setup auto reply, etc.) send an empty e-mail message to hermes-info@hermes.net.au (for Hermes Internet members only).

Two Cent Newsletter Archive

Two Cent Newsletter – full archive of all issues of this newsletter is now available at:

http://www.hermes.net.au/cgi-bin/2cent.pl

The archive has search facility. While subscription to the newsletter is available to members of Hermes Internet only, we decided to make the above archive visible and available to all Internet users.

Connected: an Internet Encyclopedia (CIE)

Advanced material. Comprehensive reference to the technical operation of the Internet. Over 40 Mbytes of information, over 4,000 pages. Hermes Internet members can download condensed CIEsmall.zip (21.7MB) file of "reduced fat" encyclopedia directly from our server. CIE sections include:

	over 100 Internet engineering esseys
	every RFC (Request For Comment) published
	five-part Programmed Instruction Course (good DNS section)
	questions readers have asked (with answers)

Secure Transactions

We offer Secure Transaction Server facility. This, together with CGI forms which we can custom design for your needs, allows to accept credit card payment on Internet, to collect and send confidential customer details, or to send other sensitive data. Submission of data is secure, based on SSL encryption and certification process interactively and independently verified by Thawte.

For general information about this technology see The RSA Labs Cryptography FAQ and The Thawte Security FAQ. "Secure Transactions" page (in Members Only area) describes this service in more details.

Access to this service costs $100 per year. Custom design service of secure sites and forms is also available.

Forms (free)

We have made available to you an option which allows to set up on line business forms. This tool is FREE. You may have seen similar forms many times on various Web sites. They are used to collect information - a person looking at Web page fills in empty areas of a form, and then clicks on a "send" button to submit it to the owner of such form. One typical application is to collect inquiry details from people who looked at your Web page, and would like to be contacted or to receive more information about a product you are selling.

Custom design service of business forms is also available.

Web Pages and HTML – How To Create Your Pages

(for general Internet tutorials, guides, and software Support area)

Please notice that we do not guarantee integrity of any subscriber's web pages. Please keep full backup of your files!

	MAKEPAGE (FREE) - for people who have not yet tried to enter the world of publishing on the Web. You do not have to know anything about HTML (hyper text mark-up language) to use this tool and produce your first page. It is a matter of filling out a form that you will be presented with.
	EDITPAGE (FREE) - for people who have already had some web pages in their www directories. It lets them edit their pages, create new pages, new subdirectories, and delete pages, subdirectories, and other files.
	HELPPAGE (FREE) - for all interested in the tool set. It is also referenced from the tool set itself - in cases of problems, errors and troubles.

The above three tools are forms based, and are FREE and very easy to use. Clicking "submit" creates Web pages for you. They work with any version of Netscape Navigator, and Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4 of higher (they do not work with MSIExplorer 3).

	Keyword search facility (FREE) – It may prove very helpful for visitors to your pages, especially if your site is a complicated structure of many pages. To see an example of how keyword search facility it works click on SEARCH on the top of our home page http://www.hermes.net.au/_hermes. It will bring up a form where you can put one or more keywords and submit, i.e. start a search for them in the whole Hermes site. The result will be a clickable list of pages each containing all of your keywords. The keyword search facility can be used not only for the Hermes site but also for your site!
	Web Hit Counter (FREE) – quick, reliable, and FREE. Its most important advantage is that it is local, placed on the same server where your Web page has been placed.
	Create your first Web page in five minutes! Get FREE software (WEB Wizard) directly from our server.
	How to place your personal Web page on our server using FTP. Sample configurations and how to get FTP software.

How to place your personal Web page on our server using Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard.

HTML Resources

(for general Internet tutorials, guides, and software see Support area)

a series of excellent guides, tutorials and tools selected by us and included on our server for fast, trouble free access:

a series of excellent Web design tutorials by Professional Web Design. Covers all subjects, page and site design, table, forms and frame tutors, tools, links to other resources, etc. etc. Very highly recommended for beginners and advanced designers alike,

Web Design Group (WDG) HTML 4.0 Reference,

The Bandwith Conservation Society (bcs) The goal is that this site becomes a resource for web developers with an interest in optimizing performance, but still maintaining an appropriate graphic standard,

Arachnophilia 3.9, powerful Web site workshop, Windows 95 / 98 / NT (FREE software available from our site – fast, reliable download):

	new internal browser "Instant View" mode shows your HTML changes as you make them -- on each keystroke!
	accepts fully formatted text, tables, outlines from any Windows 95-compliant application, automatically creates to HTML pages,
	supports up to 6 Web browsers, switches between them in a flash,
	supports development of HTML, frames, CGI, Perl, C++, Java and Javascript,
	built-in intelligent FTP client automatically uploads changed files, for complete Internet access in one program,
	powerful keyboard macros can include system commands, even other macros, for maximum flexibility,
	user-defined toolbars provide any tags or content you need for any of the supported languages and support system commands as well,
	user-defined file templates -- allows you to specify default document format and contents,
	global search & replace across all open documents, no limit to number of open documents except system resources,
	built-in step-by-step tutorials on HTML development, JavaScript, frames, the Internet.

Links to many excellent Internet HTML resources.