Sample Web Page

A Sample Web Page
(for Residential College Faculty)

A lot of things besides text can be put on a Web page. The following Alta Vista search "form" (which works -- try it) is created entirely by cutting and pasting letters in a wordprocessor: But this is not your ordinary text. It's HyperText, which is the HT in HTML and the ht in http://. It's a genuinely new form of communicative expression. Of course, there has to be something to communicate. And who better to provide that certain Je sais quois than RC faculty?

Not to belabor the point, you can provide information to more people faster and more permanently and more usefully using the Web than most other ways. Of course, the same is true of a lot of other things, like becoming President. But using the Web is easier.

This page was originally put together in 1997 around some URLs that were provided by Tom Weisskopf, Mary McGuire, and others. Three years later, it was still on the Web, and easy to update and add more examples from the RC Faculty List. This information was just typed in, or copied from other files, and it didn't take much longer than an hour to do. Your mileage may vary, but using the Web is truly far simpler than we have any right to expect, especially at a University like UM, where there are facilities galore and good training and support.

A good way to get on the Web is to collect resources on specific topics and organize them. This is facilitated by using one's Bookmark files. This way you can function as one of the high-test spigots in the Information Refinery.

UM stuff:
- How to make a UM homepage
- How to get email class lists from ITD
- CGI information (including how to make an Imagemap)
NEW! Barbra Morris's Pages
Tom Weisskopf's pages:
Helen Fox's pages:
- Home Page
- The picture from the Home Page
- A book
- A list of videos on Race and Racism, with reviews
Janet Hegman Shier's pages:
- Home Page
- Deutsches Theater
Paul Edwards' pages:
Carolyn Balducci's pages:
- Home Page
- Information about Giovanni the Fearless
- RC HUMS 242, Creative Adaptation
Mary McGuire's American Culture 345
Michael Sanders's The Physicists and the Bomb (an RC class page)
John Lawler's pages:
- Resumé (in Word 97 format)
- Short Bio, also in Word
- Gödel, Escher, Bach (an RC class page)
- Language and Gender syllabi an interesting collection of courses
- English Grammar FAQ Pop Grammar
- The Chomskybot Pop Goes The Theory
- New Book
  - Introduction
  - Chapter 5 (in Word format)
- Otro Poema de los Dones by Jorge Luís Borges; my favorite poem, lightly HTMLized
- from david antins tuning part of the Chomskybot suite
- "Metaphors We Compute By", a lecture on computer users and their interfaces
  This has gotten used in some writing classes as a reading and writing assignment,
  and recently was included as a reading in a Freshman Composition textbook.
  Two pages I used a few years ago in teaching computer skills to High School students in a summer science camp:
  - Sample Home Page for them to modify, and
  - Examples of HTML codes for them to use in modifying it.
    This page contains instructions on how to link a URL. As it turned out, all of the High School students in my class managed to make Web pages without having to try very hard. I suspect RC faculty should be able to do it as easily.
  Last change 2/19/01 John Lawler (jlawler@umich.edu)