As with other official home page information, any references to the general mission of the University or statistics must be reviewed by Public Affairs and Institutional Research. HTML is not hard to learn. Staff will be on hand to get you get started or give you pointers. There are a number of HTML authoring tools for both Windows and Macintosh computers. How useful you find them is largely a matter of personal taste.
Several people maintain lists of HTML editors .
What as far as we know does not exist is a totally satisfactory way of automatically converting existing documents, such as MS Word files, to HTML format. Contact Bob Skinner for more information. The Digital Commons is maintaining an archive of SMU-related images and dingbats such as buttons. A major problem facing Web designers is to balance the look of a page which is often enhanced by graphics with the amount of time it takes for the graphics to display. If you'd like a machine that is faster and more powerful than any personal computer, then web is probably the place for you.