Surfing the Net isn't all that different from the real-life version: You have to catch a wave and get yourself up before the fun begins. The WWWebPorte provides the wave in the form of the Microcom DeskPorte 28.8S modem, plus a CD filled with software to get you going.

The package includes Microcom's Carbon Copy/Net, a Netscape Navigator browser, Internet Made Easy from US Online, VocalTec Internet Phone and CommTouch Pronto Lite e-mail software. Carbon Copy/Net is a Netscape plug-in that lets you remotely access and use software applications residing on distant PCs through the Internet or an intranet. Internet Made Easy asks you questions about your interests, creates a personalized home page linking you to Web sites of interest, and recommends and registers you for an appropriate service provider. Internet Phone lets you talk over the Internet, and Pronto Lite gives you basic e-mail capabilities.

The CD also contains trial subscriptions to online services.

$170
Microcom
800-822-8224, 617-551-1000

Corporate Webmasters painstakingly enter the necessary HTML coding to create hyperlinks or numerous connections to related Web pages. The DB/Text WebServer can simplify that chore.

The DB/Text WebServer lets you build text-centric Web sites and helps you manage your HTML documents. Instead of perusing hyperlinks, visitors simply query through records. The program makes instantaneous queries, including word searches. You can make relational-like links between textbases to eliminate redundant data.

DB/Text WebServer batch data-management features let you edit and change data across multiple documents with a few keystrokes. No relinking is necessary after documents are added, deleted or edited.

$5,000 per server license
Inmagic
617-938-4442, fax 617-938-6393

The Z-Server WG Web Server provides all the necessary components for Internet and intranet access, including Netscape's FastTrack Server and Navigator Gold 2.0 software. The package contains Java and Java script support, as well as security features. The server itself includes a 120MHz Pentium processor, 16MB parity memory (upgradable to 256MB), 1GB SCSI-2 disk drive, 4X SCSI CD-ROM, 1.44MB floppy disk drive and a high-performance PCI Ethernet controller.

$4,799
Zenith Data Systems
800-227-3360, 847-808-5000

WebCatalog 1.5 lets you build commercial sites with a shopping cart feature that totals prices as the customer goes along. This allows the shopping cart to serve as an invoice. The database builds pages on the fly to match search requests, cutting down on the linked pages and documents that a Webmaster must maintain. Its activity logs provide demographic information about your Web site visitors.

$695
Pacific Coast Software
619-675-1106, fax 619-675-0372

AAA Map'n'Go adds the American Automobile Association's database of more than 57,000 hotels, restaurants, campgrounds and points of interest to DeLorme's Map'n'Go CD-ROM travel planner. You can now link Map'n'Go to a Global Positioning System (GPS) to pinpoint your exact location at any given time.

$39
DeLorme
800-452-5931, 207-865-1234

Road Trips Door-to-Door is a deluxe version of Road Trips travel-planning software. The program lets you generate and print driving directions and maps to and from nearly any U.S. street address. It includes more than 28 million road segments and one million points of interest.

$49.95
TravRoute Software
800-297-TRAV, 609-252-8197

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