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EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK STAFF

Celebrate the New Year:
Click onto our new home page
by Peggy Boyer Long

Hey, we have new home page.
Check us out.

Six months ago we launched the magazine's electronic edition and already some 4,000 of you have visited the site.

But web masters tell us it's a good idea to redesign home pages at least once a year — to upgrade the features and to keep you coming back for more.

Our graduate assistant, Brian Lee, who created the home page, has spiffed up the look and redefined our purpose. (He swears it's now one of the best-looking pages on the Net. Who are we to argue?)

We're now offering two full feature- length articles each month, as well as our upfront Briefly section and the State of the State column. We're running Charlie Wheeler's regular Politics column and our regional columnists (Madeleine Doubek from the suburbs, James Ylisela Jr. from Chicago and Patrick E. Gauen from the Metro East area across from St. Louis). And we'll keep you updated on the magazine's efforts to track campaign finance.

Our home page address is http: //www.uis.edu/~blee/ii.html

So, how can you visit us? You'll need a computer that has an internet server with some type of web browser, such as Netscape or MS Internet Explorer. Click onto "file" within the task bar at the top of the screen and bring the cursor down to "open location." Then, just type in our home page address (see bottom of this page). Once you're in, you can click into stories or columns, or find out more about the campaign finance project. Brian updates the page for us every month. We have plans to add a roster of state officials (a kind of electronic Blue Book) and a chat room so readers can debate politics and policy with one another. That should keep us plenty busy this year.

4 / January 1997 Illinois Issues