To view text and pictures on the World Wide Web, you use a web browser such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Netscape. To hear sound or watch motion pictures on the web, you may also need helper programs such as Adobe Reader (for PDF files) or RealPlayer.

To create your own web pages, you'll need a web editor to handle the formatting; several editors are available free or at reduced prices for Cornellians. Two summaries you may find useful are Guidelines for Publishing Web Pages at Cornell (information about the Cornell logo has been moved to the Cornell Visual Identity site) and Cornell Electronic Course Content Copyright Guidelines.

To publish the pages you've created so that other people can see them, you'll need to find space on a web server. For personal web pages, you can use CU People, a free service for Cornell students, faculty, and staff. For course web sites, several options including Blackboard are available. For other pages, you can use a server that someone in your department or group has already set up, or buy space from an Internet service provider, or run a web server on your own machine.

Viewing Web Pages
Privacy Tips: "Cookies"
Registered Cornell Web Sites

Creating Web Pages
Introduction: Web Editors
Cornell Electronic Course Content Copyright Guidelines
Guidelines for Using the Cornell University Logo
Audio/Video Streaming
Web design service for departments

Publishing Web Pages
Introduction
CIT's web hosting service
CommonSpot
Confluence Wiki
Course Web Sites
- Blackboard at Cornell
CU People personal pages
CU Web Forum
- CU-Web-L mailing list