Pacific Artists are a new multimedia company producing PC CD-ROM titles and presentations including, The Encyclopedia of Steam, The Multimedia Guide to Dogs and Rudyard Kipling's Classic Tales.
Bras Direct is "the" on-line lingerie catalogue for men and women and a fun section where you can change the colour of the underwear.
If it's IT information that you're looking for then the Computer Information Centre is the one for you. It hosts 1000's of links to IT suppliers, technical information sources aswell as having a built-in site search facility.
Apex Computer Recruitment is an internet source for Business and Technical IT vacancies
Whether it's a XJS Jaguar or a Robin Reliant that you're after Exchange & Mart can help you find that perfect car.
Enhance Software is one of the most up to date and structured internet software archives on the internet. Definately worth checking out.
Good Technology Web publisher of prestigious company sites using exacting design standards and high degree of interaction.
Xara A British company developing mainstream Windows applications as well as the universally acclaimed CorelXara.
World Web Collectibles Searching the globe procuring rare finds and one-of-a-kind collectibles from individuals and businesses.
A comprehensive property site for the UK
The first British Comic shop to go online was the curiously named They Walk Among Us. It has a stock of over 100,000 comics (not all are listed), including X-Men back issues plus Asterix, Tintin, Tank Girl, Batman, Cerebus, etc, etc. All the usual comics and a range of fringe goodies.
If you're looking for CDs, games, and videotapes by mail order, Pastel Blue is one of the bigger shops online in the UK. It has 42,000 CDs, 16,000 videos and 3,500 video singles which you can browse through the Web but which you can, as yet, only search via email.
For an index to 780,000 books online, try the Internet Bookshop, which claims to be the biggest bookstore on the net. It now lets you search its catalogue by title, author, ISBN and publisher.
If you're a radio hobbyist try Javiation for an online component guide.
Millennium Facilities is an ambitious project to provide an index to UK and European companies, whether online or not. It only had 26,000 or so listed in late February and still only had 26,833 in mid-April, but its builders insist it will offer three million in the next few months.
If you want to keep track of British companies popping up with Web pages, have a look at this index. It's often out of date and incomplete, but it's better than nowt.
If you're looking for a job in the UK try Reed, the UK's biggest employment agency, JobServe (which mostly works via email) or VNU's Job.net from Computer Contractor magazine.
Mondex is the main British contender to provide a standard for digital cash. This would (among other things) make online shopping a great deal easier.