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Date: | Fri, 29 Sep 1995 14:31:30 EST |
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As part of our NEH and NYState Council on the Arts-funded site
interpretation program, I promised a Web site, which I would like
to start developing/prototyping myself. I have a nice zippy
486/33 machine (it *was* fast when I bought it!??) at home, and I
use Netscape and a dial-up PPP for access.
So what software are people using for developing Web sites? I
would like to make this kind of a fun site, not necessarily long
on graphics and bandwidth busting video, but with interesting
layering and links. I'm particularly interested in incorporating
hot maps (is that the right term for those clickable graphics?)
The whole project is about landscape as windows into other ways
of thinking about the natural world, in other cultures and other
times, so I would like to use that metaphor for the web site
itself.
On the other hand, I've never dealt with HTML, and for that
matter never "programmed" in anything more complex than R:Base
database scripting language. Ideally, the HTML language would
support all the latest extensions, though maybe I wouldn't really
*need* flashing text, and it would be easy to go back and forth
between scripting and display modes.
I could pay money for it if I have to, but I'm curious about
share and freeware like WebEdit and HotDog. Am I crazy to be
thinking about doing this myself? I'm a diehard autodidact, but
is this out of my league?
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, and a belated Happy New Year to all of you (us?) for whom
it is a new year.
Eric Siegel
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