Holidays - learn about secular and Religious Holidays. Favorite subtopics here include: Christmas, Easter, Chanukkah, April Fool's Day, Halloween, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, New Year's, and Thanksgiving.
Related sites for Holidays and Events Recipes and Holidays and Events Crafts are in the Home and Garden topic. Also see the blog post on Gifts and Holidays.
The Children topic contains sites designed to be of interest to children. It includes Arts and Crafts for Kids, Web Directories that list sites for children, Mythology and Folklore, Hobbies for Kids, Homework Help, and Sports for Kids.
Editors should be especially careful when adding/reviewing sites for this topic to make sure that all content and links are appropriate for children. Sites should be in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
Sites that are more for parents than for children belong in other topic trees: Parenting, Infant, Child, and Teen Health, Baby Clothing, Toys, and Furniture, Children's Apparel, Furniture, Toys, and other products.
Yesterday's Additions - view the JoeAnt Directory additions made over the past four days.
Shopping for Gifts and Holidays - extensive resource for Gift Baskets, Care Packages for students or members of the military, Corporate Gifts, Personalized Gifts, Regional and Ethnic Gifts, and Themed Gifts.
There are also links to sites selling Gift Wrap, Greeting Cards, and Party Supplies.
Recent Keywords (linked from the index page) shows what visitors to JoeAnt are searching for. Beside each keyword on this page is the number of results that search returned. Click on the keywords to see those results.
Searches look at the words in the site's URL and the directory title, description, and regional fields. The topic in which each site is listed shows under the search result. To the left of each result are Info and Related links. Click on the Related link to go to the topic for that site. The Info link will show a thumbnail of the site from Alexa (if available) along with the top 20 listings in the same topic, keywords, and referrers to that topic.
This combination of features does more than provide amusement for the curious, it's also an excellent resource for Webmasters to check on their (or a competitor's) sites.
Weblogs - listings include some of the most popular weblogs. Find new blogs to read, Learn About Blogging, find Weblog Hosting, Blogging Tools and Software, or join a Weblog Webring.
Want to share your Personal Blog? Join as an editor (select the Computers topic) and add your blog. Does your weblog have a theme? Then add it to the most appropriate subtopic. Some of the choices include: Business Weblogs, Food Blogs, Game Blogs, Photoblogs, and Sports Blogs.
Don't forget to check out the JoeAnt index page each month to find the Blog of the Month. Each month (or two), one weblog along with one editor-owned site and one other directory-listed site is selected to be featured on the front page. You can see an archive of past Sites of the Month, including Blogs of the Month.
Recipes - general recipe collections and recipes by food or preparation type.
Includes recipes for Holidays and Special Events, Crockpot Recipes, Brand Name Recipes (collections and recipes from food companies), and even some Pet Food Recipes. If your looking for Ethnic or Regional Recipes, there are topics for Asian Cooking, European Cooking, Regional Recipes from North America, and more.
Aggregators and Summaries - worldwide news sources. A wide selection of sites for anyone who want more than just their local news. Also a good starting point for bloggers who want to find breaking news and to compare the same news stories from different sources.
Includes Topix.net (Info), Ananova (Info), European Internet Network (Info), All Headline News (Info), and over 30 more aggregators.
