Understanding and Using the WWW

for

MBAC 6080

Kenneth A. Kozar

Spring, 1998

Communication/Computing Convergence

WWW - Useful?

Regarding the WWW, what is a domain?

What is a router?

What is a firewall?

Why is a firewall needed with intranets?

Interesting Sites

There are some sites associated with finding a job.

Getting your site started at CU requires learning some Unix and special directories. Click here for some help getting started at CU.

To create your resume page, you must:

  1. establish the content you need.

  2. use markup tags for:
    • heading sizes

    • placement including centering

    • paragraph breaks

    • horizontal rules

    • links to other pages

    • ordered and unordered lists

    • optionally, images or sounds

Why write HTML and not use a page "creator"? View document source for the page on getting started at CU. Notice how hard this would be to maintain.

For general information on the internet:

  • General Internet Information

    For some how-to and background on the web see

  • the Enfo Site

  • Web Pages at CU

  • A Beginner's Guide to HTML

  • A Slacker's Guide to HTML - HTML for the Hopeless

    For a site on DESIGN, see WebWonks Tips for Writers and Designer by David Siegel, author of Creating Killer Web Sites, a book that deals with design.

    Remember that - A Good Web Site is:

  • Professional/Tasteful

  • Free of Spelling Errors (NO TYPOS)

  • Updated

  • Working

  • Pleasing

  • Informative

  • Fast

  • Found on Edupage, March 5, 1998...

    CORPORATE WEB SITES NEED BROAD APPEAL, SPEEDY GRAPHICS

    A recent report by Shelley Taylor & Associates, based in Palo Alto, Calif., says that only three of the 100 Web sites it inspected -- those of AT&T, Bell Atlantic and Sun Microsystems -- managed to serve the needs of diverse groups, including investors, customers and potential employees. Most corporate Web sites focused too narrowly on one type of visitor, tarnishing the company's image in the eyes of other visitors. The group also found that many of the Web sites were painfully slow and badly organized, and that information took far too long to download. Often these negatives are the result of trying too hard -- packing the Web site full of glitzy graphics that may impress a few visitors with time on their hands, but annoying hundreds of others. (The Economist 28 Feb 98)

    To get a two-megabyte file under optimal performance:

  • T3 = 0.4 seconds

  • Cable Modem = 1.6 seconds

  • PC Hard Drive = 2.7 seconds

  • T1 = 10.7 seconds

  • 4x CD-ROM = 26.7 seconds

  • ISDN = 2.1 minutes

  • 28.8 Modem = 9.3 minutes

  • 14.4 Modem = 18.5 minutes

    What does this say about big sound files, graphics, etc.?

    Your resume page is due as part of the exercises for the class. This is due on date stated in the syllabus. To be listed in the class index, include your URL in the format mentioned in class and send it to the MBA Tech Committee.

    The Tech Committee has established a link to a page to add resumes. You should go the resume listing where you find the link to the resume adding page.