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Welcome to IHSA.org! The Illinois High School Association is proud to have you as our guest. Our Web Site is here to provide you with the latest information on IHSA programs and activities. Like everyone else, we're still learning how to use this wonderful new technology. We invite you to browse through our site, and if you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free to send us a note. We're glad you're here!
The Illinois High School Association Web site debuted in January, 1996. For a year prior to that, a four-line BBS electronically delivered announcements and results to the media. Although it served its purpose well, the BBS could not match the potential of the Web to reach thousands of people simultaneously anywhere in the world. And so, after a brief period during which both systems were operable, the BBS was shut down for good in August, 1996. The Web continues to expand rapidly. Usage figures for the third year of operation are about three times that of the second year. On a typical tournament day, about 200,000 individual pages are downloaded. Our busiest day of the year occurs at the end of October, when the football pairings are released.
The IHSA's main web server is housed and maintained by Multi-Ad., Inc. In addition the IHSA has three in-house servers that are used for a variety of tasks. IHSA.org currently consists of over 15,000 web pages of material, many of them produced by hand, but most generated by database programs in the IHSA Office. For instance, the online directories (schools, officials, and media) as well as the football schedule and most of the records pages are all generated automatically. Still other databases are used to input and generate the state tournament information that appears here. The IHSA is happy to be able to post the results of our state tournaments directly from the state final site, using a system that will provide real-time "Scoreboard"-type updates from most of our state finals.
IHSA.org is designed by Scott Johnson, IHSA Assistant Executive Director, and Craig Johnson of Digital Dakota. In addition, Jeff Jones works part-time on the IHSA.org site. |
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