Student creates web site for Mayor Rendell

Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell now has an Internet presence, thanks to Wharton and Engineering junior Eugene Huang. Huang designed Rendell's World Wide Web homepage, which was unveiled yesterday so that the public can interact more easily with Rendell's re-election campaign. Huang, a member of the campaign's issues staff, worked on the page this summer. He said Rendell was solidly behind the campaign's effort to go on-line. Campaign Coordinator Patricia Pisauro said creating a homepage for the mayor had been under discussion since early 1994. Campaign staffers spent more than a year determining how they wanted the page to look. "The goal [of the homepage] is to get the accomplishments of the administration to as many people as possible," she said. "It's to reach a broader audience than normal." Visitors to the homepage can send information about themselves to the campaign electronically -- registering to volunteer their time, requesting campaign information and even registering complaints. The homepage also includes a "news stand" area with an archive of press releases and media advisories, background information on the mayor, a gallery of digitized photographs and a detailed listing of the mayor's accomplishments during his first term. Key election-year dates are already posted on the homepage, and information about debates between Rendell and Republican mayoral candidate Joe Rocks will be posted as it becomes available. Rendell's homepage resides on LibertyNet, Philadelphia's community-based computer network. Readers can access it by pointing Web-browsing software such as Netscape or Mosaic at http://www.libertynet.org/~rendel95. The campaign can also be reached electronically at rendel95@libertynet.org.

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