The Whitman College homepage was redesigned in summer of 1998. The most noticeable change to the page is the frontpage itself. The functions of both the leaves on the sidebar and the textual links have been merged into single links, and the original 12 links have been condensed into six, broader categories. In most c ases, frontpage links were absorbed by other ones, so that all of the original links can be easily reached with only one additional step. The new look relies upon HTML tables to separate elements, instead of frames, as the old page did.
Tables improve the loading time and simplify the creation and maintenance of pages considerably.
The second thing you'll probably notice is that most things have moved somewhat. This may not be immediately noticeable, because the old homepage did not show you where pages were, but it will quickly become evident. If you are attempting to locate an exi sting page to update it, that will be covered farther down. The new directories were designed to mimic the six choices that are presented on the frontpage. In most cases, they contain the same information that the previous pages by those names did, except that now, if a page is listed in that directory, it is phys ically located there.