HTML also allows pictures, movies and sound files to be embedded into documents to give the WWW the look and feel of online magazines or brochures. Online service providers like Prodigy, America Online, CompuServe and others have added millions of Internet users by embedding web browsers in their software. One word of caution - it can be incredibly addictive Content Means Everything Corporations are falling all over themselves to establish web sites to showcase products and service offerings. They are developing online catalogs of information for potential buyers. There is arguably no industry more information-intensive than government and the public is demanding access to data as never before.
Web sites are like magazines.
They have developed an information system that facilitates access to the variety of electronic data describing California's natural resources. If content is everything, these people have assembled a ton of it. It is particularly well-organized. A considerable frustration found in many new web sites are dead ends or links to no data. The information on the California Resources Agency site is about the physical environment, living creatures and their habitats, environmental impact reports and studies.