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The official Knox Web site can be found at http://www.knox.edu.
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''The official Knox Web site can be found at http://www.knox.edu.''
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[[Knox]] maintains a sprawling website containing a large variety of information and resources about the school.  The pages have been added over the years, apparently, with little obvious integration.  Attempts have been made to impose a clean organization structure, most notably on the set of pages in close proximity to the main page.  These attempts have been more or less akin to paving over a bog: the organizational structure includes only some pages, leaving a murky, nebulous multitude of difficult-to-access information, including very useful or interesting pages, below.  Most navigators of the web page will at some point fall through the cracks of the [[Prospective student|prospective-student-centered]] scheme, which will be rather disorienting.  Manypages are incomplete, redundant, or out of date, and there is no sitemap.  The search engine feature is often not particularly effective
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On 3 June 2007, the link to Clinton's commencement address on the Knox website opened into Obama's address from 2 years ago.  Was this a fluke or a planned conspiracy?
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==Interesting but obscure pages from the website==
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* [http://www.knox.edu/x11505.xml The Knox Style Guide]
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* [http://deptorg.knox.edu/landscape/ The Landscape Master Plan]
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* [http://deptorg.knox.edu/facdev/guide/ The Faculty Survival/Success Guide]
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* [http://www.knox.edu/x10632.xml Alumni Hall Naming Rights Price List]
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[[Category:Computers]]

Latest revision as of 19:04, 30 July 2007

The official Knox Web site can be found at http://www.knox.edu.

Knox maintains a sprawling website containing a large variety of information and resources about the school. The pages have been added over the years, apparently, with little obvious integration. Attempts have been made to impose a clean organization structure, most notably on the set of pages in close proximity to the main page. These attempts have been more or less akin to paving over a bog: the organizational structure includes only some pages, leaving a murky, nebulous multitude of difficult-to-access information, including very useful or interesting pages, below. Most navigators of the web page will at some point fall through the cracks of the prospective-student-centered scheme, which will be rather disorienting. Manypages are incomplete, redundant, or out of date, and there is no sitemap. The search engine feature is often not particularly effective

On 3 June 2007, the link to Clinton's commencement address on the Knox website opened into Obama's address from 2 years ago. Was this a fluke or a planned conspiracy?

Interesting but obscure pages from the website[edit]