1. Avoids using any disk space for articles because the host site, e.g., CFO Magazine, CIO Magazine
2. Makes articles available from their sources, which increases the ease of immersing students in authentic situations and problems
3. Requires very little understanding of HTML--just enough to point to the article pages

1. Requires updating links to articles when sites are reorganized
2. Makes access vulnerable to sites ceasing to make articles availablee

1. Makes copyrighted material available on the Web from the provider's site
2. Avoids the need to find a scanner and someone to scan materials
3. Presents an attractive index
4. Requires very little understanding of HTML--just enough to point to the login page

1. Requires viewers to pay the provider for access, usually for a specific period
2. Requires sufficient planning to comply with production timetables
3. Imposes the provider's format for indexing and access
4. Minimizes the opportunities for learning to create and manage Web pages

1. Takes advantage of librarians' expertise to locate digitized library holdings
2. Creates access through pages that librarians create
3. Lets faculty participate in organization aspects to tailor the presentations
4. Permits free access for university-authorized purposes
5. Requires very little understanding of HTML--just enough to point to the index page

1. Requires sufficient planning to permit searching for and organizing materials
2. Imposes a single format for indexing and access
3. Minimizes the opportunities for learning to create and manage Web pages

1. Enables materials that only exist on paper to go on the Web through scanning
2. Avoids the need to find a scanner and someone to scan materials
3. Permits password-protected materials to be treated as if they were paper copies in library reserves for copyright purposes
4. Requires very little understanding of HTML--just enough to point to the login page

1. Requires sufficient planning to comply with DocuWeb's production timetables
2. Imposes DocuWeb's format for indexing, which makes accessing the files tedious from students' perspective
3. Minimizes the opportunities for learning to create and manage Web pages

In a course management system, e.g., in WebCT, which is supported at all USG schools. WebCT includes modules for course content, discussion board, quizzes, student web publishing, and chat.

Putting stuff in WebCT

1. Makes getting web space easy because courses come with Web space
2. Permits monitoring who has accessed which pages
3. Facilitates making course backups, including content pages
4. Allows content pages to be replicated for other courses, e.g., all sections in a multi-section course
5. Permits free access for university-authorized purposes
6. Creates opportunities for owners to develop capability for Web page development

1. Increases the difficulty of making the site available to persons other than students because the owner must make specific requests to webct@gsu.edu for user accounts
2. Consumes time with a tedious file uploading and management procedure (will be more FTP-like in the next version)
3. Functions as a closed container with access through MyWebCT signon

On a unit, college, or university site (on www.gsu.edu). Unless you are the keeper of the server, you only tend to site content.

Putting stuff on a site

1. Gives the owner control over:
   1. Organization, content, and formatting of pages
   2. Others' access to the site, which can be partitioned into password-protected and unprotected areas
2. Permits multi-section courses to be served from a single site, which minimizes course overhead
3. Enjoys (on www.gsu.edu), institutional-level reliability
4. Permits free access for university-authorized purposes
5. Creates opportunities for owners to develop capability for Web page development

1. Requires specific request to the appropriate site administrator to initialize the site
2. Requires owner (or assistants) to have HTML and some site management expertise
3. Requires additional requests to site administrator for more space

1. Enjoys all the advantages of a unit, college, or university site
2. Permits use of features, e.g., active server pages and Java applets, that institutional sites may not permit to ensure access control
3. For ISP-enabled sites, offers ISP provision of hardware and infrastructure. Creates opportunities for owners to develop capability for Web page development.
4. Permits access at the owner's discretion
5. Creates opportunities for owners to develop capability for Web page development

1. Requires personal funding
2. Bears a non-Georgia State address
3. For personally-provided servers, requires attention to hardware and infrastructure matters, e.g., security and reliability

1. Gives short loading times for Web viewing due to small file sizes
2. Permits reuse and incorporation into other pages
3. Affords the most flexibility in page design and site management
4. Creates opportunities for owners to develop capabilities for Web page development and site management

1. Requires skill in editing HTML for maximum flexibility
2. Requires an HTML editor, e.g., Dreamweaver, FrontPage, GoLive

HTML pages created through other programs, e.g., Word, Excel, Access

Word *.doc files saved as *.html files: Because browsers interpret strings of tab and space characters as a single space, it is helpful to format multi-column text in tables rather than with tabs and spaces. For example, syllabi often have multi-column formats. Formatted with tabs/spaces, such text gets run together when browsers present an HTML version of it.

1. Minimizes the HTML editing skill required to create pages
2. Permits reuse and incorporation into other pages
3. Permits creation of HTML versions of views or objects (Excel and Access)
4. Creates some opportunities for site owners to develop capability for Web page development

1. Increases file size with default Microsoft formatting codes
2. Increases difficulty of editing out unneeded formatting codes. A Microsoft download for Office 2000 makes it possible to filter out some (but not all) of these codes from HTML files that Word and Excel create. In Office XP, the command to filter out these codes is Save as Web page, filtered.
3. Impedes using the full capabilities of HTML

1. Requires using only the "save as pdf" command in the editor program, e.g., Word. The only HTML skill required is to link to the *.pdf files.
2. Impedes reuse, which preserves authorship authenticity.

1. Requires license for Adobe Acrobat to create files.
2. Requires viewers to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in (free).
3. Requires an Adobe Accessible Acrobat Reader download to permit text to be available to screen readers. Without the download, pdf files are not ADA compliant.
4. Impedes reuse and incorporation into other pages
5. Makes bigger files than equivalent HTML pages, which require more space and take longer for viewers to load, including waiting for Acrobat to launch.
6. Precludes editing except through the original editor recreating the pdf files.

Word *.doc files

1. Permits viewing and downloading of *.doc files

1. Relative to HTML files, increases file size, which increases loading time. Loading time is further increased by the need to launch Word first.

Excel *.xls and Access *.mdb files

1. Permits viewers to download native Excel and Access files, preserving all application functions

1. Unless it is important for viewers to have the *.xls and *.mdb files so they can use them in Excel or Access, file size and loading time can be minimized by creating HTML files from objects in Excel and Access and making those available on the Web. Because Access *.mdb files are often large, use Tools|Database Utilities|Compact and Repair Database (in Access) to minimize file sizes before putting them on the Web.