How to Publish on the Web

"How to Publish on the World Wide Web" is an audience-specific primer brought to you by The Global Institute for Interactive Multimedia, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people use new interactive multimedia technologies to teach, learn, and communicate better than ever before.

Publishing a Home Page

As people are rapidly moving from "browsing" the Web to publishing and sharing their own information, The Global Institute decided to create these pages to help everyone publish. Although there are many things to consider when publishing on the Web, it can be surprisingly easy to do with proper guidance. We have put together some basic information and a set of specific guides for various audiences. Please choose one:

Teachers, college faculty, and other educators
Small business owners
Community leaders
People in the professions
Non-profit executives, government officials
Students
Other explorers of publishing on the Web

Notable quotes and Guest articles about the Web.

"The Internet and the World Wide Web are hot, hot, hot....The intriguing thing about the Internet is that it is a level playing field. If you can get yourself on the Internet, you too...can become an electronic publisher. Your work will stand or fall entirely on its own merits....The ante is small but the potential impact enormous if the content you provide is judged by the network community to be unique and valuable."
-Ray Duncan, "Electronic Publishing on the World-Wide Web", PC Magazine, April 11, 1995

The Registry

The Global Institute administers a Registry of students who are willing to provide low cost technical assistance to organizations and individuals who want to publish on the World Wide Web.

Find out about the various < = "http://www.thegiim.org/students/examples/types.html">types of assistance available
See <="http://www.thegiim.org/students/examples/Registry.html">samples of registered students' home pages
Students interested in providing technical assistance must seek registration by filling out a form.

This Site

We hope you recommend this site to friends and colleagues who are also beginning to go beyond simply browsing the Web and are thinking about using the new technologies, or have begun to use the new technologies, to produce material of their own.

This site will be updated monthly. Its current Web location (URL) is http://www.thegiim.org/

The Global Institute's plans for these pages were implemented by Lucy Tancredi and Sami Shalabi. Thanks to The Sphere Information Services for providing space and support for this site.

Comments, suggestions of other material you have found helpful, and original material you produced especially for this site are very welcome. You can reach the Institute by sending email to global@mit.edu.