This means you need to keep in mind the restrictions of Web development when creating your questionnaire. Although you may not notice a difference connecting on-campus, students connecting from home via modem will have to wait considerably longer to view Web pages with images. Additionally students with much older computers may not be able to view the Web at all. The University of Washington Libraries 1998 Library and Information Use Survey gives statistics on student access to computing facilities. Use common file types .
Web browsers are fairly restrictive in the types of files that they are able to display.
Included in these file types are text-only files, which contain text with little or no formatting, HTML files, which contain plain text that has been formatted with an HTML editor or by hand with HTML tags, and '.GIF' and '.JPG' image files. Try to restrict your information on the Web to these four formats. Direct students to neccessary plug-ins or helper applications . If you are publishing information in these formats, you will want to direct your viewers to locations where they can download these extra pieces of software in order to access your information. Keep in mind that your students may not have these applications installed on their home computers, and many of these applications have greater system requirements than the Web browsers themselves.