About This Site

This began as an experiment to learn something new and has grown into what you find here now. Originally intended as a on-line set of bookmarks for myself created in September 1995, Phil's Place has expanded to rather large proportions. Educators like yourself have the site useful and asked that I add additional links and categories. Some have even gone so far as to Email me their bookmarks. This, along with subscriptions to Email digests of new URLS, has resulted in a backlog of destinations to add. Stay tuned, new links are being added almost weekly.

Although intended for use by educators, parents and, children in the Western Pennsylvania area; many of the links are to sites that will benefit those involved with education across the country. In addition, some of what I have written is available from the Rants and Raves page including my T.H.E. Journal article. If you use or help support computers in schools, this article may be of interest. The site is loosely, some would say roughly, divided into pages based on a "theme." Most of the pages have interpage links that allow you to easily navigate around without having to do to much scrolling. Like many Internet sites, this one is under perpetual construction.

I've also begun to use databases to provide content. The most obvious example of this is the PA school district search page. By seperating the content from the presentation with the use of a database allows some interesting posibilites. I have several databased upgrades for the site in the works.