The motivation for creating the EAB Alumni home page is twofold: (1) to provide EAB Alumni with updated information on upcoming events such as reunions and (2) to provide an easy access a current database of EAB Alumni names and addresses.
To get to this help page, you made use of the feature which makes HTML (HyperText Markup Language) documents so versatile and powerful - hypertext links. By clicking on underlined text (usually blue) or outlined figures such as the buttons on the bottom of the pages, you automatically jump to the location of the document being referenced by the link. To return, simply click the back button of the browsing software you are using. An added feature with these documents is that you can jump directly to our top-level HTML document, i.e. our homepage, by clicking the "home" button on the bottom of every document. You can also e-mail the author of a given document with questions or comments by clicking the "letter" button on the bottom of the document.
WWW, HTML, HTTP, URL, etc. ... it almost makes you feel like your first week grade school! WWW stands for the World Wide Web, the conglomerate of information on the Internet accessible through the use of browser software (Mosaic, Netscape, Lynx, etc.). HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the "programming" language used to create the documents. HTTP is HyperText Transfer Protocol, the way HTML documents are transferred from the source to the viewer. URL is the Uniform Resource Locator, the specification used to discriminate between HTTP documents and other forms of WWW information exchange such as file transfer protocol (FTP), gopher, etc.
If the information is somewhere out on the Internet, you may be able to find it using one of the keyword search engines such as Web Crawler, Yahoo, or Alta Vista.
Two things are needed to make a homepage: (1) create the HTML documents, and (2) couple them to a document server. Perhaps the easiest way to learn about creating HTML documents is to look at a page with a browser and also view how the document was written by choosing the "View Source" option within the browser. If you prefer to read up on the subject instead, A Beginner's Guide to HTML is a good place to start.
Okay, okay, so I don't actually get asked this question very
often, but I certainly welcome any suggestions on how to improve
these documents (e.g. find an outdated link, know of a great new link
for information, format changes, etc.). Just e-mail me a message by
clicking the mailbox button below.
Last update: April 1996