The strength of the World Wide Web is twofold: One, it is easy to navigate with browsers like Netscape, and two, it is easy to publish information and link it to the rest of the Web. Don't misunderstand "easy," because it's not SIMPLE to do. But, compared to other ways of making information available via the Internet, it is the most elegant and most accessible way to go.
The computer language that describes what the pages look like on the Web is called HTML (HyperText Markup Language), and it is a straightforward, logical, sensible way of making documents that will be viewed around the world on widely varying computers, and then linking them to one another.
At Webster, the University maintains a Home Page and many additional pages that comprise our Web Site. Individuals with purchased accounts on the Internet can build their own Home Pages if they desire, and individual departments and faculty have the opportunity to do so as well. The content, appearance, and links that comprise an individual's Home Page can be unique to their interests. Many of the more original pages on the Web are, in fact, individual and not institutional pages, and therein lies the strength of the Web--diverse voices and wide-ranging content are the rule, not the exception.
We encourage you to participate in this new communication medium and become a publisher
of your own Home Page!
Comments or suggestions for this page can be sent to
webmaster@websteruniv.edu
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