The WWW Tutorial is less than a week away. This is your last chance to register for this valuable opportunity! To: SIGAda Extended Executive Committee, SIGAda-Announce, & Team-Ada: Dear SIGAda Volunteer: We have developed a special tutorial to help you become more effective in using the WWW and ACM Resources to support SIGAda Working Groups, SIGAda Local Chapters, SIGAda Conferences and any volunteer activity that will be promoting Ada. Title: Introduction to Web Technologies for Effective Dissemination of Information Cost: This Tutorial is provided FREE to all SIGAda Volunteers Prerequisites: No knowledge of HTML is assumed Knowledge of Netscape/IE/generic browser is assumed Presenters: Brad Balfour, Clyde Roby, and John McCormick When: Sunday, 17 October from 7:30 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. Where: SIGAda'99 Annual International Conference see http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigada/conf/sigada99/ Crowne Plaza Hotel, Room TBD 300 N. Harbor Dr. Redondo Beach, California Tutorial Description: This tutorial is oriented towards providing the basic information to disseminate information effectively using the World Wide Web. The tutorial addresses effective designs for web pages, the use of HTML for developing web pages, incorporation of graphics, and using FTP and other automated tools (both UNIX and PC-based) to streamline the dissemination process. Strategies for announcements, configuration management, mailing lists, and databases are addressed. The ACM host machine will be used as a model. Although this tutorial is specifically designed to support the needs of SIGAda Working Groups and SIGAda Chapters, the information will be useful to all interested in learning how to set up a WWW home page. Sign Up: Send email to: [log in to unmask] if interested in participating. Note: It is not possible to register for this tutorial using the normal SIGAda'99 Registration procedures. This tutorial was set up especially to help you become more effective in your volunteer activities with SIGAda. We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity. Chairs of local SIGAda Chapters are encouraged to forward this email to SIGAda volunteers within their chapter. We look forward to seeing you in Redondo Beach! On behalf of the SIGAda Executive Committee and the Tutorial Presenters, v/r Currie Colket SIGAda Vice Chair for Meetings and Conferences