About the the style of this site...


Yes, this site is decidedly simple. I use HTML 1 fairly heavily, with a few table extensions from slightly later. To some extent, I learned the web early when that is all there was, and I found that workable and fast. I am not so sure that complex frames and all the new stuff still holds to some of the original promise to operate transparently on different platforms.

I know you want to print out your lecture notes, and I try to think in that way, but one of the main powers of the web is hypertext. I DO use a lot of internal and external links. All links will be checked prior to the class session in question, but the old links (some of these courses date from a few years ago) are not guaranteed.

In 2001, I have adopted a scheme with the main lecture notes for 460 as smaller, tighter files. There will be a "resources" page resxx.html associated with most of the lectures. The resources are for further exploration, a place for me to blow off steam about all the NEAT stuff that might be raised by a topic. The main lecture page should contain the main points require for course comprehension.

In my class support, I have the following policies about the web:

Any changes will be posted on the electronic copy. Please, don't print out the lecture notes prior to the lecture (even one minute prior to the lecture), as the instructor is likely to revise it just before class (or even a minute later...). The website provides hypertext structure linking between various components of the course. It also provides access to a world wide web (chatchy title!) of geographic information and examples for each lecture topic.


Some basic points about the Web:

World Wide Web operates over Internet. It is an anarchic, decentralized collection of chaos and hyperlinks. These point all over the place, if they lead nowhere, there is no one to whom to complain. Please email the Instructor with items that need repair.

What rock have you been living under? You haven't been on the Web yet? Six years ago I had to explain all the browser technology in careful detail. Now the 460 pages look positively ancient. Yes, they are mostly text in HTML 1.0, but they DO load fast.


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Version of 1 October 2001