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Site Tour

This tour is designed to illustrate the major aspects of page and site design.

Some Corporate Sites

Motorola
Modest but effective graphics. Clear organization. Too wide for some browsers.

Hitachi, Ltd.
Beautiful graphical design. Large images, slow to download. Too wide for some browsers.

Cirrus Logic
Graphical approach might not appeal to everyone. Large graphics files, slow to download.

Balogh Scientific Books
It's not only large or high-tech companies that use the Web.

Some Government Sites

Postal Service, Zip-Code server
Interactive service using standard HTML forms capabilities. Effective but not fancy.

The White House
Extensive graphics. Slow to load.

WANTED on the Web (Massachusetts deadbeat dads)
Anyone here you recognize?

IRS Form 1040
Uses Adobe Acrobat. Excellent quality when printed. Accessible when libraries and banks are closed.

Judicial Brief, selected at random from many on the Web.

Some University Sites

University of California, Irvine
Large graphic imagemap.

MIT
Small graphics. Serves both public relations and internal communications. Italics hard to read.

EE 2200
A university course assisted by interactive Web resources.

Publications

Newspapers, magazines, and newsletters will never be the same again.

All the News That's Fit to Print
But does the printing fit on your browser?

Boston Globe
Part of boston.com

Time

Some Lists

It is favorite occupation of some people to compile and maintain lists of Web sites. There are hundreds, of varying degrees of quality. Sometimes the compilers enjoy it at first and then realize they have a tiger by the tail.

Colleges and Universities

Electrical Engineering Departments

Societies

Search Engines

Alta Vista
Perhaps the best all around search engine at this time (February, 1996).

Yahoo
One of the earliest.

Savvy Search
Submits a request to about a dozen separate search engines and integrates the results.

Personal

Dr. Sherry Kitto
Robert G. Hamilton
Selected at random from thousands of personal home pages on the Web.

Paul Penfield, Jr.
Daniel W. Connolly
Do you know us?

Travel

New South Polar Times

Wetterhorn, Switzerland
Photo courtesy of Philip Greenspun

Jupiter
Showing effects of comet impact, July 1994

Media

Media other than text or inline images require "helper applications" to "view" them.

Audio
Typical helper, SoundMachine.

Amelia Earhart talks of science's aids to women in 1935
540 k; 1 min., 8 sec.

Applause
26 k; 4 sec.

Video, with (or without) sound, QuickTime format
Typical helper, Simple Player.

Jupiter "Day"
Animation of the planet and its ring as seen from the moon Io (no sound, 2600 k; 37 sec.)

Blastoff
Launch of a Saturn V rocket (832 k; 10 sec.)

Video, without sound, MPEG format
Typical helper, Sparkle

First steps
An unnamed MIT Professor at an early age (400 k; 12 sec.)

Organizations

International Engineering Consortium, Presenters of the 1996 National Communications Forum. Advance information about the 1996 National Communications Forum and about this ProForum.

NEEDHA
National Electrical Engineering Department Heads Association

The Gainesville Civic Chorus
Santa Clara Chorale
Spectrum Singers

Comics

Arlo and Janis have discovered the Web (yes, there really is a coffee pot).

Dilbert, the favorite of all nerds.

Commerce on the Web

Newbury Street, Boston

L. L. Bean

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