Search Engines:

Yahoo - Espana
http://es.yahoo.com/
This Spanish language search engine will focus on Spanish language web pages in all categories including the following:  Arte y cultura, Ciencia y tecnología, Ciencias sociales, Deportes y ocio, Economía y negocios, Educación y formación, Espectáculos y diversión, Internet y ordenadores, Materiales de consulta, Medios de comunicación, Política y gobierno, Salud, Sociedad, Zonas geográficas.

Google Web Directory:  Espanol
http://directory.google.com/Top/World/Espa%C3%B1ol/
This directory for Google Espana.Categories include Artes, Ciencia y tecnología, Deportes, Medios de comunicación, Salud and more. To find webpages relating to a country, choose Regional.

General Information:

LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu
Provides access to Latin American Materials. The site is divided into two directories: a Latin American country
index that links the user to resources on a large variety of topics about a country. The second index covers 37
subject access points to the same sites.

Yale Universiy Library's - Iberian Languages and Literatures
http://www.library.yale.edu/Internet/spainlanglit.htm#Spanish%20Gateways
Includes Spanish language websites, dictionaries, electronic Spanish texts, information on Spain, and media sites including newspapers, periodicals, radio.

News:

El Pais Digital
http://www.elpais.es/
Current news from Spain posted daily with sections on Politics, Society, Sports, etc.  Good place to find out how Spaniards view American events.

Newspapers in Latin America
http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/
From LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center), a collection of links to online news networks and regional newspapers.

Spanish Language News and Magazines
http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/flnews/spanish.html
Links to online news sources in Spanish. News sources include newspapers and magazines from Spanish-speaking countries.

Dictionaries, Translation Aids, & Lessons:

Diccionarios.com
http://www.diccionarios.com/
From the publisher Spes Editorial, a collection of online dictionaries including Spanish to English and English to Spanish.

Spanish Dictionaries
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/romance.html#spanish
A collection of online dictionaries for the Spanish language. The site also includes specialty dictionaries for Spanish for topic areas such as medicine, religion and more.

Babel Fish (AltaVista)
http://babel.altavista.com/translate.dyn
Translate phrases into another language.  Be careful of this service, because it does not always translate things into understandable foreign language phrases....This is particularly true of idioms such as "raining cats and dogs", and slang.  You will be able to translate English to Spanish as well as Spanish to English.

Parlo:  Language, Culture, Life
http://www.parlo.com/es/index_en.asp
Here find links to essays written in different levels of Spanish, chat groups, message boards, diagnostic tests, and articles about the culture.

Spanish Language Exercises
http://mld.ursinus.edu/~JARANA/ejercicios/instructors.html
From Ursinius College, a site containing online exercises to practice conjugation, composition, and more.

Spanish Chat Groups, Discussion Groups, & E-mail Options:

Charlas  (Chat Groups)
http://es.chat.yahoo.com/
Sign up for free chat with other Spanish Language Speakers.

ESPAN-L
http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=ESPAN-L&H=LISTSERV.TAU.AC.IL
You must subscribe to this discussion group to receive postings.  Directions are on this site.

Web Site Evaluation:

Evaluating Web Sites
http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/wwwtips.htm#eval
This is in English, but the concepts for evaluating sites remains the same across languages.