Home-Improvement Advice

www.lowes.com
Find thousands of DIY project tutorials here, with photos and step-by-step instructions.

Gardening Tips

www.garden.org
Nurture your green thumb at this National Garden Association site, which has advice on everything from acanthus to zinnias.

Everyday Cooking

www.allrecipes.com
With more than 30,000 recipes, many submitted by the site’s visitors, Allrecipes.com is a terrific source of information about time-saving shortcuts and practical ingredients. (Can you say “frozen pie shell”?)

Recipes for Special Occasions

www.epicurious.com
The recipes are organized by ingredient, cuisine, and difficulty and are supplemented by personal suggestions from various cooks. If you want to learn to truss a chicken or butterfly a leg of lamb, you can watch an instructional video here.