Ventana Publishes Mosaic Documentation

New book helps Internet users create and explore World Wide Web sites

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., August 1, 1994--Mosaic, the Internet's 'killer app,'
allows Internet users to move seamlessly between documents joined by
hypertext links among far-flung computers that make up the Internet's
World Wide Web. Ventana Press presents Mosaic Quick Tour in Windows and
Macintosh editions--the first-ever documentation for this exciting
software.

Mosaic Quick Tour gives users a fundamental understanding of Mosaic and the
Web, as well as hands-on instruction for locating, downloading, installing
and using the software to explore both Web and non-Web sites, such as FTP
sites and newsgroups. Mosaic software and related materials are accessible
via the VentanaMedia Visitors' Center on the Net.

The book also teaches users how to create their own customized Web site,
called a 'Home Page.' Here, the user can store audio and video information
in a digital form for other Web users to access.

In addition to a comprehensive glossary of Mosaic and Web terms, Mosaic
Quick Tour concludes with 'Site Seeing,' a guided tour through the
practical and cool places to visit via Mosaic.

Mosaic is a free software program that provides a visually appealing
interface to the Internet's World Wide Web and allows the user to navigate
the Web. It turns ordinary, computer-bland text into attractive,
multimedia pages for viewing on the computer, with graphic images, fonts,
sounds and, in some cases, video. The World Wide Web is an online
hypertext system that spans the Internet. Hypertext, a non-linear
publishing method, allows users to browse through passages of text,
expanding items of interest on related topics with a simple mouse click.
When expanding an item, users traverse a link to a new item which more
than likely is stored on a different computer, perhaps thousands of miles
away. The estimated number of Mosaic users is now 450,000.

Mosaic Quick Tour is 175 pages, illustrated. Mac edition ISBN:
1-56604-195-3. Windows edition ISBN: 1-56604-194-5. List price: $12.00.
For orders in the U.S. only, call 800/743-5369.

Gareth Branwyn is a writer and multimedia designer. He is a regular
contributor to Wired magazine, the senior editor of bOING bOING (a
cyberculture humor rag) and the former Street Tech editor of Mondo 2000.
He is co-author of Flame Wars (Duke University Press, 1994) and the
forthcoming The Multimedia Home Companion (Warner Books). He is currently
co-editing bOING bOING's Happy Mutant Handbook (Putnam Berkeley).

Ventana Press publishes books and other materials that help computer users
become more productive, including The Mac Internet Tour Guide, The Windows
Internet Tour Guide, The Mac Shareware 500, Voodoo NetWare and The
Presentation Design Book. All titles are available in bookstores and by
writing Ventana Press, P.O. Box 2468, Chapel Hill, NC 27515, or by calling
Ventana's toll-free order line, 800/743-5369, 919/942-0220, FAX
919/942-1140

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