This site is mostly for fun, partly for practice, which is why so much of it is random babbling.

It was created, back in the twentieth century, mostly with the demo version of Symantec Visual Page, which was cool at the time. I tried making some changes in Netscape Composer 4.01, and more recently in 4.51, and found it buggy and awkward. Increasingly, however, I just go right into BBEdit. (BBEdit is cool, BBEdit Lite is free and pretty cool.) and start copying, pasting, search-and-replacing, and sometimes even actually typing HTML code. (That's HyperText Markup Language, for those of you who know even less than me about this stuff.)

How does one learn HTML?
This is another of the coolest free things in the world. Here's what you do, as explained to me in one minute by Web God Al Iverson:
1. Go to any page on the World Wide Web.
2. From the File menu, do 'Save As' and choose the 'Source' option.
3. Open the resulting text file in SimpleText (or whatever text editor you've got).
4. You'll see lots of codes between angled brackets. Ignore them. You'll see text that you recognize as the headline; replace it with the headline you want. Do the same with the body text of the page. Save your changes to the text file.
5. Open that text file with your web browser -- Explorer, Netscape, whatever. Ooh!

I'm slowly teaching myself how to get AppleScript to generate HTML and thereby do things beyond the patience of mere mortals. Check out my handy color chart I made for my own reference. It's generated by 33 lines of AppleScript code I whipped up one morning. In HTML you specify color by RGB (Red, Green, Blue) levels written as hexadecimal numbers. Not the most intuitive thing unless you're SuperGeek. So I made this chart I can just copy the hex numbers from. You might find it handy if you mess with Web pages, or in any case it's kinda purty.

I've tested these pages on Macintosh Netscape Communicator 4.73, Internet Explorer 5.0 and iCab. My tall handsome friend Dan says they look OK on his Wintel machine in the America Online browser. The pages were originally designed on and for a 640 x 480 monitor, 'cause that's what I had. I've finally now upgraded to an iMac so I'm working on an 800 x 600 screen like everybody else now. I've mostly only viewed them in 24-bit color ("Millions of Colors"), though I've made some effort to have it look OK in 8-bit (256) color. On a DOS/Windows system this would correspond to Super-Duper VFW / EMF Graphics Blaster, or something.

It's designed to load in a reasonable amount of time for poor folks with 56K modems... even though I've got DSL now :)

Let me know what you think!

This page last updated 4/28/2001.	If you use any other kind of computer, your life has been ruined and you should sue someone.