The story of infoessentials
While practicing as a lawyer in the mid nineties the same two questions kept arising from lawyers:

• What are the best Australian legal sites? and
• Can I have a copy of your links page?

Access to the best sites fast is still the motivation behind this site.

No single site can do everything well. We don't try to be everything to everyone. What we do do is find the best sites linked in each category. We put in the time and expertise instead of you.

The site has expanded from a focus on legal sites to professional, useful and recreation sites for Australian professionals.

Site versions:

There have been several versions of what started out as, a useful collection of links in categories. This version of infoessentials.com is the latest, it is free and is the most extensively tested for speed and usability.

Every link has been visited in rebuilding the site to ensure that it is still useful. Many new sites have also been added.

The professional categories are legal, financial and medical.
Subcategories include for example:

• areas of law and legal organisations and publishers in legal,
• financial news, stocks and commodities information and share trading in financial, and
• medical organisations in medical.

The useful categories are travel, business, news and reference.
Subcategories include for example:

• travel guides and bookings, airlines and car hire in travel,
• banks and telephone companies, and bills, credit cards, couriers and freight and office supplies in business,
• Australian news, world news and weather and time in news, and
• search engines, dictionaries and encyclopædias and telephone directories, postcodes and other reference resources in reference.

The recreation categories are infotech (information technology), timeout and sport. Subcategories include for example:

• the headfirst guide to building a website, how to, software and browsers, companies, ISPs, ISP tools and IT publications in infotech (information technology),
• shopping, net tour and food and wine in timeout, and
• general sport sites and specialist sport sites, such as those for golf, basketball and cricket in sport.

Every page has a menu up the top with the main categories and a link back to the home page.

There are also some parts of the site that may be useful (linked at the bottom of each page) such as the about us, what's new and feedback pages.

Where do I go from here?
You may wish to explore the site, starting with legal, or the Internet starting with the net tour.