This paper explores the practical and philosophical issues involved in Web site construction so that the finished site truly reflects its creator. The author uses the term "syllaweb" for a hyperlinked syllabus and declares that it was an outgrowth of Vannevar Bush's original description of computerized graphical communication as a web, analogous in its workings to the natural process of the brain with its "intricate web of trails carried by the cells." Discussion includes the nonlinear nature of hypertext; the teacher-learner-text relationship; the teacher and student role; student participation; articulating the expected outcomes of assignments; the need for topographical or mapping guides; the size and attributes of a computer screen; choices of graphics; online discussion and the benefits of group activities; and the capacity of electronic text for infinite and easy revisability, interactivity delayed and immediate, duplicability, transmissibility, storage, and attendant cognitive enhancement. (AEF)