Local Information

Campus map

For those with a graphical web reader, such as NCSA's Mosaic. By clicking on different buildings, one has access to virtually all the information available on this server. We are looking for people to help us gather more information.

List of buildings

For those who are using a text-based interface, such as Lynx, from the University of Kansas. The same information is available, only without the pictures. Select a building from the list. Departments are listed by the location given in the BGSU telephone directory. This would also be better for those connected by a slow link (like Appletalk).

Departments and Offices

In case you don't know the location of the department you are looking for.

The Computer Help Center

has been the biggest recent contributor to the web server. Most computer documentation is available here, including the nascent Frequently Asked Questions list.

New Home Page

Various people have been involved in developing a "more presentable face" for BGSU. It is currently known by the URL http://www.bgsu.edu/. This will be merged in with the work of other groups.

About the Web

World-Wide Web was started at CERN to help their work supporting research in high-energy physics. It is one of a number of projects being developed to manage information over the Internet. Others that are also available at BGSU include Gopher, WAIS, and Archie.

Getting Help

If you are using NCSA's Mosaic, (which has X, Macintosh, and Microsoft Windows versions) use the pull-down 'Help' menu in the upper right-hand corner. If you are using Lynx, type a question mark. There are also a number of other clients available for different computers.

Adding Information

If you would like to add information to the Web, there are a number of things you can try. We have an e-mail interface to Gopher, so you don't have to learn the little details. There are programs for changing various forms of files into WWW's HTML. If you would like to find out more about this, contact the CWIS administrator. If you want to actually write HTML files, there are a number of papers that have been written on writing HTML documents

Places to Poke Around

A large list of available information is NCSA's What's New with NCSA Mosaic. Since the computer holding that data has a hard time handling all the requests it receives, we keep an archive copy at BG.

For an idea of the possibilities for WWW, take the (free) bus ride to the EXPO Ticket Office (preferably using a client with graphics capabilities, such as Mosaic).

At the end of most of the files on this World-Wide Web server, you will find a small picture like the one below. Select it to return to the BGSU home page (this page).

John Hasley, the BGSU CWIS administrator.