These settings can be saved permanently on all Macintoshes used to access Geography software. Netscape or Mosaic starts from the local hard drive. Chapters are readily available as hypertext links displayed in Chapter 1, the Introduction. Home' takes a student back to the Introductory Chapter 1 to make additional selections. The straight forward navigation of the menus and icons of the Web browsers made any additional instructions unnecessary.
Students can easily continue from the section that they left at last viewing.
The free format of HTML allows faculty to make additions and changes without concerns about page formatting. Chapters and graphics can easily be added by copying the files to the server and simply editing the Introduction to add an anchor hypertext link to the new chapter. The chapter files and graphics stored in PC formatted files can be read from both Macintosh and Windows Web browsers. The tutorial will be available on any campus networked workstation at no additional cost. The browser material can be made available in local mode, restricted for use only on the Buffalo State Local Area Network, not visible to Web users.