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Website Insights
 This
page is talk about all the decisions that go into making up a page for the
PCUGR website and how that reflects technically and on the club. This
is from the Web Master and may grow to be more formal. These are not
Frequently Asked Questions. In fact I rarely get questions
Objectives:
These are some of the goals and objectives that are
addressed with each page.
 Keep
in mind most members use a 28.8 modem to have the pages delivered to their
browsers. This was easy to forget and I had to be
reminded. I have the Wireless DSL connection from Broaderlink through
Sonic. It's made all the difference in the world but it's easy to take
that connection for granted and create "heavy pages."
Involve as many of the club members as possible in
the website. The
PCUGR website has always be cool, but I wanted to expand the content
to include anyone that does anything within the club to help
out, to make life easier, or sharing in anyway. To put more
focus on the people that make up the club. There are new pages for
On-line Reviews, Member's Websites, New Members, All the new SIG will get a
page. Let's expand the site until we reach our quota for web pages on
Sonic. That will be a good problem.
The PCUGR site is best viewed with Internet
Explorer. This is not because I don't like
Netscape. In fact when coding Java Script Netscape has a debugging
facility that is free with their browser that is really helpful. MS
want's you to buy Visual InterDev (not cheap). Windows XP won't even
support JScript; we'll all have to get plug-ins. Billy wins because I
like Front Page (more on that later). The site was converted to FP
when Ben Ezzel took it over. The transfer to my system was
painless. Steve Cerrutti hand-coded the site up until Ben
"automated it." When I got it some of the hand coded Java
Script was broken. If you view source on the home page I think there's
still some bits left in there. Actually FP is pretty good with
this. I don't know why it was broken. Anyway, Sonic Net, which hosts
our site is Linux based and doesn't support the FP extensions. So, it's not
IE that wins by being best. It wins by default.
The PCUGR website probably does not work with all
browsers. This is only because I haven't check it on all
browsers. I am not coding for any browser older thatn IE or NS
3.0. I would bet 98% of our club is at 4.0 or better anyway. IE
5.5 is just about gone. I wonder if IE 6.0 will be for XP only?
FrontPage 2000 Generates HTML that isn't as efficient
as what can be coded by hand but we will forgive it. Hand coding is the
best, but it requires an amazing amount of HTML, CSS and image knowledge
from the programmer. Even when I was fast at coding by hand, I
couldn't keep up with someone who really knew Dream Weaver, FP allows
something to be done as easily as a word processor.
Well, if you have any questions that I didn't cover
here. You know where to find me. Let me know,
Jim
Bowers
PCUGR Web Master
So I really like FP 2000 because:
It handles directories really well, including renaming web objects. FP
finds them all and get them all changed. Tough, by hand.
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