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Re: Your web page

Dale:

> I thought maybe a simple imagemap with the four sections,  each going to
> their own page,  and branching out from there.

I'm pretty sure IAC charges about $5 for the 'privilege' of having 
image maps.  I'm not sure if this is per image map or what, but I 
think it's highly irritating.  It goes right up on my list of things 
I don't like about IAC, like how I won't be billed for 3 months, then 
get a bill for $100.  

> The graphics I want to begin to do more with soon.  I just found out tonight
> from a guy who is the multimedia director for Image Matrix her ein
> Cincinnati that Adobe has a program called "Page Mill" that is a drag and
> drop Web authoring package that seems to have some really good features.
> I'm going to look up Adobe's page and check it out.  The only thing about it
> is that it does not support HTML 3.0 yet  (but I'm sure that's coming).

I'm not sure exactly what you'd like to end up doing on the Web, but 
I would learn the hard-core HTML before getting into a WYSIWYG 
editor.  There is more to the pages than having the graphics look 
just so.  But I guess it depends on how you learn best.  I learned a 
lot by finding a lot of HTML how-to's on the Web (much more up to 
date than the books seem to be).  And any time I see something cool, 
I look at the source to see how they did it.  

> I'll check on that.  From what Harold tells me,  we may all have some
> one.net accounts soon,  and so they may be a better help for CGI stuff.   I
> also have a book HTML and CGI UNleashed by December (whom you
> mentioned.....I visit his resource pages quite often.  He does a lot of good
> stuff)  I also bought WWW Unleashed a year or so ago (Nov94)when it first
> came out.

It's hard to go wrong with John December's stuff.  If you get a 
corporate account with OneNet, you'll get access to CGI.  But even if 
ACS does a deal with them, we still won't have access to CGI at 
OneNet -- it's a corporate policy they don't want to budge on.  From 
talking with one of the owners, there are no restrictions on what you 
can put there -- provided that it doesn't do anything evil.  The 
other good thing about OneNet's corporate accounts is that they 
provide EXCELLENT stats tracking for free.  I think they have a 
sample at www.acmepet.com/stats.html.    That's something IAC doesn't 
do.

Amy