Student's personal site showcases unusual career interest, original compositions, photos from trip to Vienna.
This issue, we are pleased to grant the Vienna Award to Robbin's Home Page - www.oocities.org/Vienna/1624.
Meet Robbin Wood. She is a biology (neuroscience concentration)/music major at Duke University. After she graduates, she plans to go to graduate school and get a Ph.D. in neuroscience. In the future she sees herself doing research involving music perception, using brain imaging and other advanced techniques.
On her site, Robbin discusses her thoughts on music, her achievements to date, and her hopes for the future. She introduces her friends, shares some interesting links, and also presents a stunning collection of musically oriented GIFs.
In 2000, she had an amazing experience studying abroad in Vienna Austria. The Duke-in-Vienna program consisted of mostly Wind Symphony students, but also had pianists, vocalists, and string players who played with the Wind Symphony and in chamber groups. (They held rehearsals in the Palais Palffy, where Beethoven conducted his Fifth Symphony.) In addition to Vienna, the Duke-in-Vienna group traveled to other cities in Austria (Mauterndorf, Salzburg, Innsbruck, and Bregenz), Germany, Liechtenstein, Malta, Hungary, and Czech Republic. She was also able to take weekend trips to Milan, Paris, and a week-long trip around Italy. Be sure to check out all the pictures she took during her semester abroad.
Robbin also seeks to entertain us with an array of original musical compositions.
Although still a little rough in spots, this site is a good example of the type of site that built Geocities, the personal home page, and I'm sure that over time it will only improve. We are happy to welcome this site into the community of Vienna Award winners.
Use online link and HTML checkers to ease site maintenance
A familiar scenario: you built your Website page by page, an essay here, a list of links there, a gallery of images, and maybe of music files too. Now, here it is a year later and you are considering polishing up your site, improving your navigation, testing all your links, internal and external, and possibly making some changes in those pages that you so painstakingly assembled.
A daunting task, and one that is often put off, sometimes indefinitely.
But it doesn't have to be. There are many services available online for free that can check your links, your HTML, and even test your Meta tags for effectiveness.
I have tried several services of this nature, and have compiled this list of the ones that are worth your consideration.
A final note: Geocities and most other free site providers may dynamically add code to your page, for pop-up ads and such. Often, this added code may have errors that cause an HTML error report on your page to show many more errors than you really have. These errors rarely affect the display of your page, but must be taken into account when analyzing your HTML validity. HTML checkers generally give you a line-by-line report complete with the code listing so it's relatively easy to determine whether an error is in your code or theirs.
