Webmasters' Guild

A Simple Web Site

by Mike Slattery

This site is a gentle introduction to creating and maintaining a Web site with minimal support. In particular, I'm going to assume that you have (or can borrow) a machine to work on which has an ordinary word processor, a web browser, and some means of transferring files to and from another machine (most likely some form of ftp).

The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (often referred to as WWW or just "the Web") is a system of multi-media hypertext. That means that documents on the Web can involve things like pictures, sound, video, as well as text (that's the "multi-media" part) and can be "linked" together with active references (that's the "hypertext" part). If you select a link (on most browsers, you do that by clicking on the word with the mouse), you immediately jump to the referenced page. The "World Wide" part of the name refers to the fact that these referenced documents can be located on different computers anywhere in the world - the system will automatically locate them and transfer the information to your computer for viewing.

What Next?

Now let's go on to the second page of this site. You simply click on the words "second page" in the preceding sentence.


This site created and maintained by Dr. Michael C. Slattery of Marquette University.

You can contact me at mikes (a) mscs.mu.edu.

Copyright © 1997 Marquette University -- All rights reserved.