Jeff's Internet Adventures: Top-flight = software tools for Web designers

From Thu Oct 30 22:37:18 1997 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 22:37:18 -0500 (EST) From: Postmaster Subject: IMAP4 Server Data-DO NOT DELETE Content-Length: 95 Mime-Version: 1.0 Status: RO X-IMAP: 876325383 16 This message is from the IMAP server. VERY IMPORTANT Server DATA. --END+PSEUDO-- From dkrovich@wvu.edu Wed Oct 8 11:35:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: from mr-ra.wvu.edu by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA27800; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 11:35:19 -0400 From: "David Krovich" To: Subject: test Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 11:36:34 -0400 Message-ID: <01bcd3ff$f5220560$fb15b69d@mr-ra.wvu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 content-length: 213 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000001 Testing, ignore. ------------------------------------------------------------- David Krovich (dkrovich@wvu.edu) WVUECAS Information Systems ------------------------------------------------------------- From tmcloughlin@inc-net.com Thu Oct 9 10:21:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: from web2.inc-net.com by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA04993; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:21:42 -0400 Received: by web2.inc-net.com from localhost (router,SLMail V2.5); Thu, 09 Oct 1997 10:26:02 -0500 Received: by web2.inc-net.com from mhtz (206.155.164.218::mail daemon; unverified,SLMail V2.5); Thu, 09 Oct 1997 10:26:00 -0500 Reply-To: "Tom Mcloughlin" From: "Tom" To: Cc: "Stephen Gauntt" Subject: LINKS Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:25:47 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19971009102602.0fb4c38b.in@web2.inc-net.com> content-length: 511 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000002 We were looking at your site and found it very interesting. We suggest that you take a look at our American Fiction Book listings at http://www.scry.com/ayer/amer_fic/title00.htm If you like what you see please establish a link to the site. With your permission we will reciprocate and place a link to your site on ours. If you are interested in posting your site with us please include in your email with the URL and name of the site Your link will be added to: http://www.scry.com/ayer/amer_fic/links.htm From rgoldman@hermes.icrc.wvu.edu Sat Oct 11 14:12:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: from rich by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA02461; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:12:31 -0400 From: "Rich Goldman" To: Subject: test Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:15:04 -0700 Message-ID: <01bcd68a$be0598c0$c2044781@rich> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_006C_01BCD650.11A6C0C0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 content-length: 661 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000003 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_006C_01BCD650.11A6C0C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ignore. ------=_NextPart_000_006C_01BCD650.11A6C0C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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------=_NextPart_000_006C_01BCD650.11A6C0C0-- From wbolyard@AS.WVU.EDU Mon Oct 20 12:54:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: from AS.WVU.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA10889; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:54:11 -0400 Received: from WVUECAS1/SpoolDir by AS.WVU.EDU (Mercury 1.21); 20 Oct 97 12:50:03 ESTEDT Received: from SpoolDir by WVUECAS1 (Mercury 1.21); 20 Oct 97 12:50:00 ESTEDT From: "Wendy L. Bolyard" Organization: WVU Eberly College of Arts&Sciences To: "Rich Goldman" Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:49:55 ESTEDT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: report X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Message-ID: <1216608463C@AS.WVU.EDU> content-length: 1564 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000004 Sounds good... but what do we anticipate being the completion date? Thanks for the info, Wendy > From: "Rich Goldman" > To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" > Subject: Re: report > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:05:19 -0700 > Hi Wendy, > Let's plan on having the layout of the new homepage finished Friday morning. > This means having the animation finished, putting the background behind the > collumn on the right with the New at the College stuff, and finding a > snazzier image for the Message from the Dean button. At the same time, I'll > make a model layout for the submenu pages, and link it to the main page. I > imagine a banner much like the one on the News to Note pages. Let me know > if you have something different in mind. > > Is this what you need for the report, or do you need more detail, more > projection, etc? > > Rich > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wendy L. Bolyard > To: rgoldman@wvu.edu > Date: Monday, October 20, 1997 5:42 AM > Subject: report > > > Rich, > > The Dean wants me to report on our "new" website at our 1:30 staff > meeting. Will you please give me a progress report ASAP? > > Thanks, > Wendy > > > **************** > Wendy L. Bolyard > College Relations Director > Eberly College of Arts & Sciences > WVU P.O. Box 6286 > Morgantown, WV 26506-6286 > Phone 304-293-4611 Fax 304-293-6858 > wbolyard@as.wvu.edu > THE EBERLY COLLEGE - THE HEART OF WVU > > > From <@WVU.EDU:wbolyard@AS.WVU.EDU> Mon Oct 20 08:42:35 1997 Return-Path: <<@WVU.EDU:wbolyard@AS.WVU.EDU>> Received: from WVU.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA09113; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 08:42:35 -0400 Received: from WVU.EDU by WVU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 2163; Mon, 20 Oct 97 08:44:48 EDT Received: from WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (NJE origin MAILER@WVNVM) by WVU.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 3863; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 08:44:49 -0400 Received: from WVNVM (NJE origin SMTP2@WVNVM) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 3692; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 08:44:49 -0400 Received: from hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (157.182.21.9) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with TCP; Mon, 20 Oct 97 08:44:48 EDT Received: from AS.WVU.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA09110; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 08:42:33 -0400 Received: from WVUECAS1/SpoolDir by AS.WVU.EDU (Mercury 1.21); 20 Oct 97 08:38:25 ESTEDT Received: from SpoolDir by WVUECAS1 (Mercury 1.21); 20 Oct 97 08:37:59 ESTEDT From: "Wendy L. Bolyard" Organization: WVU Eberly College of Arts&Sciences To: rgoldman@wvu.edu Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 08:37:55 ESTEDT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: report X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Message-ID: <11D32A02810@AS.WVU.EDU> content-length: 409 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000005 Rich, The Dean wants me to report on our "new" website at our 1:30 staff meeting. Will you please give me a progress report ASAP? Thanks, Wendy **************** Wendy L. Bolyard College Relations Director Eberly College of Arts & Sciences WVU P.O. Box 6286 Morgantown, WV 26506-6286 Phone 304-293-4611 Fax 304-293-6858 wbolyard@as.wvu.edu THE EBERLY COLLEGE - THE HEART OF WVU From wbolyard@AS.WVU.EDU Fri Oct 17 08:28:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: from AS.WVU.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA23020; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:28:17 -0400 Received: from WVUECAS1/SpoolDir by AS.WVU.EDU (Mercury 1.21); 17 Oct 97 08:24:07 ESTEDT Received: from SpoolDir by WVUECAS1 (Mercury 1.21); 17 Oct 97 08:23:58 ESTEDT From: "Wendy L. Bolyard" Organization: WVU Eberly College of Arts&Sciences To: "Rich Goldman" Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:23:52 ESTEDT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: progress X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Message-ID: content-length: 2321 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000006 Rich, I'll ask Tom about the computer "stuff." We'll see what we can do. Can you put together some kind of timeline so I know where we stand? Have a good weekend. Wendy > From: "Rich Goldman" > To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" > Subject: Re: progress > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:03:17 -0700 > Hi Wendy, > I've been trying to figure out how and in what order the photos should > rotate. I think we have enough now. I added the October event that you > sent me to the calendar. The February Event should be up tomorrow. Lemme > think...Oh yes, another computer was delivered to my office from Tom. Is > this the one you e-mailed me about, or is this a separate and unrelated > computer? The reason I ask is that it's, for the most part, an identical > machine. I switched stuff around, so I have both hard drives, etc, but it > really isn't handling Photoshop and HotDog much better: but the biggest > issue for me I think, is the monitor. I can only see little parts of the > graphics I'm working on at a time; have to scroll a lot at web sites, etc > (it's like a 14 or 15"). The Mac worked out fine; they moved one into the > common area in the suite for me. > > For some reason I can't get powermapper to map the whole site...Still > working that out. Ah yes, here's one: It seems like everyone is switching > to Microsoft's Explorer browser...Is it time now for me to figure how to > start coding for both? > > Welcome to Fall, > Rich > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wendy L. Bolyard > To: rgoldman@wvu.edu > Date: Friday, October 10, 1997 11:18 AM > Subject: progress > > > Hi Rich! > > Are we making any progress on our web site? Did you get the photos I > scanned? > > Wayne Hilt is heading up a "site coordinators group" committee to > discuss the web at WVU. I have asked him to invite you to these > meetings. If/when you attend, I would appreciate your following up > with me about what is discussed. > > Have a good weekend. > > Wendy > > Wendy L. Bolyard > College Relations Director > Eberly College of Arts & Sciences > WVU P.O. Box 6286 > Morgantown, WV 26506-6286 > Phone 304-293-4611 Fax 304-293-6858 > > > From <@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU:wbolyard@AS.WVU.EDU> Fri Oct 10 14:18:43 1997 Return-Path: <<@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU:wbolyard@AS.WVU.EDU>> Received: from WVNVM.WVNET.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA13935; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 14:18:43 -0400 Received: from WVU.EDU by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 7673; Fri, 10 Oct 97 14:20:42 EDT Received: from WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (NJE origin MAILER@WVNVM) by WVU.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 6045; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 14:20:42 -0400 Received: from WVNVM (NJE origin SMTP3@WVNVM) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 9968; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 14:20:28 -0400 Received: from hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (157.182.21.9) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with TCP; Fri, 10 Oct 97 14:20:15 EDT Received: from AS.WVU.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA13931; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 14:18:13 -0400 Received: from WVUECAS1/SpoolDir by AS.WVU.EDU (Mercury 1.21); 10 Oct 97 14:13:58 ESTEDT Received: from SpoolDir by WVUECAS1 (Mercury 1.21); 10 Oct 97 14:13:26 ESTEDT From: "Wendy L. Bolyard" Organization: WVU Eberly College of Arts&Sciences To: rgoldman@wvu.edu Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 14:13:18 ESTEDT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: progress X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Message-ID: <32C2223ADE@AS.WVU.EDU> content-length: 548 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000007 Hi Rich! Are we making any progress on our web site? Did you get the photos I scanned? Wayne Hilt is heading up a "site coordinators group" committee to discuss the web at WVU. I have asked him to invite you to these meetings. If/when you attend, I would appreciate your following up with me about what is discussed. Have a good weekend. Wendy Wendy L. Bolyard College Relations Director Eberly College of Arts & Sciences WVU P.O. Box 6286 Morgantown, WV 26506-6286 Phone 304-293-4611 Fax 304-293-6858 From nparks@erols.com Wed Oct 29 14:24:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: from smtp2.erols.com by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA10890; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:24:50 -0500 Received: from default (man-as1s29.erols.com [207.172.73.29]) by smtp2.erols.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA28799 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:27:49 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <34578E78.5354@erols.com> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:28:56 -0500 From: Noelle Parks Reply-To: nparks@erols.com Organization: Virginia 10th District Environmental Council X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-DH397 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: webmaster@www.as.wvu.edu Subject: information Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit content-length: 370 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000008 Hello, my name is Noelle Parks. I am interested in the liberal arts-acting. Could you please send me your brochures in that department. I am also intersted in Interior Design, Psychology, and Creative writting. Could you please send me information in those areas also. Thank you very much. Noelle Parks 10296 Cleary St. Apt.#206 Manassas, Va. 20110 (703) 392-0375 From <@WVU.EDU:wbolyard@AS.WVU.EDU> Thu Oct 23 08:22:42 1997 Return-Path: <<@WVU.EDU:wbolyard@AS.WVU.EDU>> Received: from WVU.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA01086; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:22:42 -0400 Received: from WVU.EDU by WVU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 3105; Thu, 23 Oct 97 08:24:58 EDT Received: from WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (NJE origin MAILER@WVNVM) by WVU.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 5484; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:24:58 -0400 Received: from WVNVM (NJE origin SMTP2@WVNVM) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 8683; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:24:58 -0400 Received: from hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (157.182.21.9) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with TCP; Thu, 23 Oct 97 08:24:57 EDT Received: from AS.WVU.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA01083; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:22:40 -0400 Received: from WVUECAS1/SpoolDir by AS.WVU.EDU (Mercury 1.21); 23 Oct 97 08:18:33 ESTEDT Received: from SpoolDir by WVUECAS1 (Mercury 1.21); 23 Oct 97 08:18:04 ESTEDT From: "Wendy L. Bolyard" Organization: WVU Eberly College of Arts&Sciences To: rgoldman@wvu.edu Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:17:58 ESTEDT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: (Fwd) (Fwd) Re: Campus Web coordination X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Message-ID: <164E001477B@AS.WVU.EDU> content-length: 3957 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000009 Rich, You may find some of this info useful--are we ready to go on the new page tomorrow? Wendy ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "Robert Phipps" Organization: West Virginia University To: wbolyard@as.wvu.edu Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:35:25 +0000 Subject: (Fwd) Re: Campus Web coordination Reply-to: rphipps@wvu.edu Priority: normal Wendy, Might be of interest. Robert ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:55:52 +0000 Reply-to: University Web Design From: Stuart Young Subject: Re: Campus Web coordination To: Multiple recipients of list UWEBD ---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- Sender: University Web Design Poster: Stuart Young Subject: Re: Campus Web coordination ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >I'm hoping to bring all of the web people together on > > >campus for monthly meetings, sharing skills, holding workshops and even > > >conferences once a year. I do this, via email distribution lists, and monthly workshops. But, sadly we get little interest, because as you say, all the webmasters have different backgrounds, and are too busy, or are overwhelmed at how much they have to learn to keep up with html. Our websites are patchy and uncoordinated despite the efforts of me and my fellow web enthuasiasts. > Is this just a large university thing? And what strategies have you taken > to coordinate all the web folks? Yes. It is. There is a great page in the Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide [1] about this subject. It compares university websites with corporate intranets. It points out that most university sites are a semi-organized collection of heterogenous and idiosynscratic sites, without any overall strategy. This leads to "confusion, lost productivity, and lost opportunity to fully benefit from the promise of intranet technologies." The page is very well written words to show to doubters or people with no internet vision, such as senior management and heads of department. http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/sites/intranet_design.html The only strategy that will work is that central management takes a firm hand and forces the departments to have a unified design - perhaps they need to start a web task force to make recomendations on centralising the design of the pages. Stuart [1] The Center for Advanced Instructional Media at Yale have made an excellent guide to designing user-friendly institutional websites available. It has chunks of information considering all the issues, from strategy to interface design, navigation to page layout. Written by respected new media academics, and well illustrated with informative figures and some beautiful animal pictures on the cover page. There are good downloading and printing options for reading at your lesuire. http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/ Dr Stuart Young, SELLIC, 0131-650-5126 University of Edinburgh, Rm 2417, JCMB, Stuart.Young@ed.ac.uk West Mains Road, http://www.sellic.ed.ac.uk EH9 3JW Robert Phipps Graduate Administrative Assistant Arts and Sciences Information Systems PO Box 6285 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506-6285 PH: 304-293-7855 | FAX: 304-293-6858 "Respected historians agree that many complex and subtly interrelated factors were involved, which is why we never sit next to historians at parties."--Dave Barry **************** Wendy L. Bolyard College Relations Director Eberly College of Arts & Sciences WVU P.O. Box 6286 Morgantown, WV 26506-6286 Phone 304-293-4611 Fax 304-293-6858 wbolyard@as.wvu.edu THE EBERLY COLLEGE - THE HEART OF WVU From wbolyard@AS.WVU.EDU Thu Oct 23 09:35:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: from AS.WVU.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA01583; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 09:35:02 -0400 Received: from WVUECAS1/SpoolDir by AS.WVU.EDU (Mercury 1.21); 23 Oct 97 09:30:55 ESTEDT Received: from SpoolDir by WVUECAS1 (Mercury 1.21); 23 Oct 97 09:30:35 ESTEDT From: "Wendy L. Bolyard" Organization: WVU Eberly College of Arts&Sciences To: "Rich Goldman" Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 09:30:31 ESTEDT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: new home X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Message-ID: <166158B5009@AS.WVU.EDU> content-length: 784 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000010 Looks pretty cool--have I asked you before if we can make the Arts and Sciences logo blue? Let me know when you get it all together. Thanks, Wendy > From: "Rich Goldman" > To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" > Subject: Re: (Fwd) (Fwd) Re: Campus Web coordination > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 09:30:38 -0700 > Hi Wendy, > I haven't read over this messsage carefully yet, but I can respond to your > first question. http://www.as.wvu.edu/newhome2.htm > has a new version of the page, but I still have to get it working for > netscape. Right now it only works on Microsoft's Explorer. Take a look at > it if you have the software and a free moment. I'll be working on it all > day at the office. > > Rich From dkrovich@WVU.EDU Fri Oct 24 02:45:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: from WVU.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id CAA07957; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 02:45:36 -0400 Received: from WVU.EDU by WVU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 6492; Fri, 24 Oct 97 02:47:54 EDT Received: from WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (NJE origin MAILER@WVNVM) by WVU.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 0024; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 02:47:54 -0400 Received: from WVNVM (NJE origin SMTP3@WVNVM) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 1260; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 02:47:53 -0400 Received: from hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (157.182.21.9) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with TCP; Fri, 24 Oct 97 02:47:52 EDT Received: from mr-ra.wvu.edu by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id CAA07954; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 02:45:33 -0400 From: "David Krovich" To: Subject: Top-flight software tools for Web designers Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 02:46:48 -0400 Message-ID: <01bce048$9a81db80$fb15b69d@mr-ra.wvu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BCE027.13703B80" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 content-length: 59207 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000011 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BCE027.13703B80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 An index of recent adventures =20 =20 Top-flight software tools for Web = designers=20 By Jeff Frentzen 10.15.97=20 =20 Where do "cool Web sites" come from? = Sometimes the answer can be found in the sheer quantity or quality of a = Web site's content. Most of the time, though, it's the look and = feel--the user interface. =20 The development of a Web site's user = interface is often the province of a graphic artist or designer. It = follows that the designer needs both the proper training and tools to = construct attractive sites. =20 I don't want to get into the training = issue, but the tools issue is easy to address in the context of Internet = resources. =20 There are a lot of software products = that claim to make the graphic artist's life easier when it comes to = designing for the Web. =20 The Web brings special considerations, = such as the designer and artist's need to create a user interface with = GIF and JPEG graphics. =20 Among many Web designers, it is a = clich=E9 to state that Adobe Photoshop is the de facto standard for = creating these graphics files. That is no surprise, as Photoshop is also = a very popular program for creating graphics in the print media. =20 If you don't have the stomach for = Photoshop, though, I suggest you try out JASC Inc.'s outstanding Paint = Shop Pro. This Windows-based product is easy to use, supports = Photoshop-compatible plug-ins and comes with almost as many features. =20 I believe it is easy to go overboard = with Photoshop plug-ins. I remember one period in which I loaded more = than 120 plug-ins each time I ran Photoshop. No more. Now I rely on Eye = Candy, which includes 21 outstanding Photoshop-compatible plug-ins that = take the drudgery out of creating glossy graphical effects. =20 Once you have created the cool images = for your Web site--often with millions of colors and perhaps a bit too = large to fit comfortably into a 640-by-480 screen display--it's time to = "dumb it down" to GIF or JPEG format. =20 My personal favorite GIF and JPEG = optimizing program is Ulead Corp.'s Smart Saver. This is a Photoshop = plug-in and standalone Windows application that indexes the colors and = provides an easy way to create transparent GIF files and other useful = features. =20 To make the resulting graphics as small = in size as possible, some designers use Debabelizer Pro, which is the = ultimate graphics file optimizer and batch conversion software. =20 Me? I have fallen in love with a little = utility called DitherBox. This Windows- and Mac-based = Photoshop-compatible plug-in produces 216-color GIF images with the = smallest file sizes I have ever seen. =20 Finally, if you want to create good = animated GIF files, I recommend GIF Construction for Windows users and = GIFBuilder for Mac users. =20 Write to Jeff via the Internet at = jeff_frentzen@zd.com.=20 =20 Related links:=20 =20 a.. Whole Web Catalog=20 b.. Whole Web Catalog's Site Designer = zone=20 c.. ZDNet InternetUser=20 Web Graphics Tool Kit=20 =20 Debabelizer Pro www.equilibrium.com/ProInfo.html The ultimate graphics file optimizer and = batch conversion software; Web-centric features now make this a = must-have product=20 =20 DitherBox www.ditherbox.com Photoshop-compatible plug-in that = produces 216-color GIF images with the smallest file sizes I've ever = seen=20 =20 Eye Candy = www.alienskin.com/alienskin/eyecandy.html 21 Photoshop-compatible plug-ins that = take the drudgery out of creating glossy graphical effects=20 =20 GIF Construction Kit www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html Windows-based GIF animation software is = easy to use and supports a number of input formats=20 =20 GIFBuilder = www.epfl.ch/Staff/Yves.Piguet/clip2gif-home/GifBuilder.html Mac-based GIF animation software, far = and away the best one out there=20 =20 Paint Shop Pro www.jasc.com/psp.html If you don't have the stomach for = Photoshop, this easy-to-use graphics editor has nearly as many features=20 =20 Ulead Smart Saver = www.ulead.com/webutilities/ssaver/noslip.htm My personal favorite GIF and JPEG = optimizing program=20 =20 =20 =20 An index of previous safaris=20 October 13, 1997=20 Sites to help you survive the NT = evangelists -- Jeff catalogues the best NT support sites anywhere..=20 =20 October 6, 1997=20 Filling the community needs of Web = innovators -- Jeff finds online gathering places for all types of Web = professionals.=20 =20 September 29, 1997=20 Web site design means long learning = curve -- Jeff finds several informative sites that offer tips on how to = work effectively in the Web medium.=20 =20 September 22, 1997=20 Inexpensive site protection using CGI, = Java -- Jeff scouts the Web for simple-to-use and inexpensive products = that use CGI and Java to protect Web sites from the prying eyes of = unauthorized users. =20 September 15, 1997=20 Sites that support the life of a mobile = user -- Jeff uncovers numerous Web sites that will help you live the = untethered life.=20 =20 September 8, 1997=20 Feeling right at home with automation -- = If your next home improvement project involves automating some of the = functions in your house, Jeff tells you where you can find information = on products, techniques, tips and tricks.=20 =20 September 1, 1997=20 Financial data is as close as your Net = connection -- Jeff tells you where you can point your browser to find a = wealth of financial information on the Web.=20 =20 August 25, 1997=20 Web-site ratings: Self-imposed = censorship? The pros and cons of content labeling and how you can rate = your own site. =20 August 18, 1997=20 Macintosh-based HTML tools grow = abundant-- Certain Mac-based publishing tools are outpacing their = Windows counterparts. =20 August 11, 1997=20 Online communities are central to Web = evolution -- Don't be anti-social on the Web. Check out these = disscussion areas. =20 August 4, 1997=20 XML: Clarity for Web developers, or = confusion? -- Is HTML a thing of the past? Find out why XML could change = the ways of the Web. =20 July 28, 1997=20 Read up on the Web's evolving business = plan -- Starting a business Web site takes careful strategy. Take Jeff's = advice: Read. =20 July 21, 1997=20 Most of the Web is unfriendly to the = challenged -- Jeff points to sites that offer tips for accommodating the = needs of the disabled into Web page designs. =20 July 14, 1997=20 Visiting Mars -- 'Cyberspace' finally = lives up to its name-- visit the Red Planet. =20 July 7, 1997=20 VRML's future is in the hands of the = geeks -- Jeff searches for ways VRML is being used, but doesn't find = much. =20 June 30, 1997=20 The CDA in review: Silencing the whiners = -- Jeff uses his Internet freedom to review these "decent" sites. =20 June 23, 1997=20 Are those 'persistent cookies' good or = evil? -- catch web pages with their hands in the cookie jar. =20 June 9, 1997=20 Make sure to get your online FAQs = straight -- writing FAQ's for your site can be a long, difficult = process.=20 =20 June 2, 1997=20 Add power to your Web Site with VBScript = -- VBScript can add a great deal of functionality and pizzazz to your = site. =20 May 26, 1997=20 More outstanding Java applets you can = use -- The Web offers lots of easy-to-use, inexpensive applets and = applications. =20 May 19, 1997=20 Web site building tools are starting to = mature -- Finding new ways to shape your corner of the Web. =20 May 12, 1997=20 Some innovative ways of searching the = Web -- Going beyond your typical browser. =20 May 5, 1997=20 Distribute your business slide shows on = the Web -- Designing a presentation that can go anywhere. =20 April 28, 1997=20 Organizing in the face of an expanding = Web -- Auto browsers pick up where search engines leave off. =20 April 21, 1997=20 Online help trickles out in variations = on style sheets -- Jeff helps you navigate through the confusion. =20 April 14, 1997=20 Gray market for Net domain names is = growing -- Jeff covers sites that help sort out the tangled domain name = market. =20 April 7, 1997=20 Researching the Net advertising business = model -- Jeff explores banners and other kinds of Net advertising. =20 March 31, 1997=20 Using Java to connect databases to the = Net -- Jeff shows how to streamline linking databases to the Net. =20 March 24, 1997=20 A look at 'underdog' Java development = tools -- Jeff navigates through the sea of Java development tools and = points out the best bets. =20 March 17, 1997=20 Cool Java applets abound on the Internet = -- and Jeff knows just where to look. =20 March 10, 1997=20 Cut overhead via low-cost Web page = service -- Jeff catalogues sites that offer inexpensive server space for = corporate Web pages =20 March 3, 1997=20 There's still a big need for Win 3.1 = browsers -- Companies heavily invested in Windows 3.1 needn't worry = about 16-bit browsers. Jeff says there are plenty out there. =20 February 24, 1997=20 What it means when your Web site slows = down -- Jeff catalogues sites that help you find out where and why Web = server performance bottlenecks occur. =20 February 17, 1997=20 The basics to creating your own online = store -- Join an Internet mall? Go it alone? Jeff lists sites that will = help you make decisions about your company's presence on the Web. =20 February 10, 1997=20 A Web site content plan saves time, = resources -- Content is king, even on the Web. Jeff says don't = underestimate the planning involved in producing content on your site.=20 =20 February 3, 1997=20 'Flat' Web sites are out; sites that = 'pop' are in -- Jeff continues his series on creating a solid Web site, = this time focusing on presentation and design. =20 January 27, 1997=20 3-D adds a fun dimension to a retooled = site -- Three-dimensional graphics can make a flat-looking Web site = sharp, but it's critical to know when their use is appropriate. =20 January 20, 1997=20 Internet phone: More than conversation = piece -- Internet telephony is finally starting to get the respect it = deserves. 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=20 By Jeff=20 Frentzen
10.15.97
Where=20 do "cool Web sites" come from? = Sometimes the answer can be found in the = sheer=20 quantity or quality of a Web site's = content.=20 Most of the time, though, it's the look = and=20 feel--the user interface.
The development of a Web site's user=20 interface is often the province of a = graphic=20 artist or designer. It follows that the = designer=20 needs both the proper training and tools = to=20 construct attractive sites.
I don't want to get into the training = issue,=20 but the tools issue is easy to address = in the=20 context of Internet resources.
There are a lot of software products = that=20 claim to make the graphic artist's life = easier=20 when it comes to designing for the Web.
The Web brings special = considerations, such=20 as the designer and artist's need to = create a=20 user interface with GIF and JPEG = graphics.
Among many Web designers, it is a=20 cliché to state that Adobe = Photoshop is=20 the de facto standard for creating these = graphics files. That is no surprise, as=20 Photoshop is also a very popular program = for=20 creating graphics in the print media.
If you don't have the stomach for = Photoshop,=20 though, I suggest you try out JASC = Inc.'s=20 outstanding Paint Shop Pro. This = Windows-based=20 product is easy to use, supports=20 Photoshop-compatible plug-ins and comes = with=20 almost as many features.
I believe it is easy to go overboard = with=20 Photoshop plug-ins. I remember one = period in=20 which I loaded more than 120 plug-ins = each time=20 I ran Photoshop. No more. Now I rely on = Eye=20 Candy, which includes 21 outstanding=20 Photoshop-compatible plug-ins that take = the=20 drudgery out of creating glossy = graphical=20 effects.
Once you have created the cool images = for=20 your Web site--often with millions of = colors and=20 perhaps a bit too large to fit = comfortably into=20 a 640-by-480 screen display--it's time = to=20 "dumb it down" to GIF or JPEG = format.
My personal favorite GIF and JPEG = optimizing=20 program is Ulead Corp.'s Smart Saver. = This is a=20 Photoshop plug-in and standalone Windows = application that indexes the colors and = provides=20 an easy way to create transparent GIF = files and=20 other useful features.
To make the resulting graphics as = small in=20 size as possible, some designers use = Debabelizer=20 Pro, which is the ultimate graphics file = optimizer and batch conversion software.
Me? I have fallen in love with a = little=20 utility called DitherBox. This Windows- = and=20 Mac-based Photoshop-compatible plug-in = produces=20 216-color GIF images with the smallest = file=20 sizes I have ever seen.
Finally, if you want to create good = animated=20 GIF files, I recommend GIF Construction = for=20 Windows users and GIFBuilder for Mac = users.
Write to Jeff via the Internet at = jeff_frentzen@zd.com.=20
Related links:=20

Whole Web=20 Catalog=20
Whole Web Catalog's Site=20 Designer zone=20
ZDNet=20 InternetUser

Web Graphics = Tool Kit=20

Debabelizer Pro
www.equilibrium.com/ProI= nfo.html
The=20 ultimate graphics file optimizer and = batch=20 conversion software; Web-centric = features now=20 make this a must-have product=20
DitherBox
www.ditherbox.com
Photoshop-comp= atible=20 plug-in that produces 216-color GIF = images with=20 the smallest file sizes I've ever seen=20
Eye Candy
www.alienskin.c= om/alienskin/eyecandy.html
21=20 Photoshop-compatible plug-ins that take = the=20 drudgery out of creating glossy = graphical=20 effects=20
GIF Construction Kit
www.mindworkshop= .com/alchemy/gifcon.html
Windows-based=20 GIF animation software is easy to use = and=20 supports a number of input formats=20
GIFBuilder
www.epfl.ch/Staff/Yves.Piguet/clip2gif-home/GifBuilder.html
Mac= -based=20 GIF animation software, far and away the = best=20 one out there=20
Paint Shop Pro
www.jasc.com/psp.html
If=20 you don't have the stomach for = Photoshop, this=20 easy-to-use graphics editor has nearly = as many=20 features=20
Ulead Smart Saver
www.ulead.co= m/webutilities/ssaver/noslip.htm
My=20 personal favorite GIF and JPEG = optimizing=20 program=20

=20 An = index of=20 previous safaris
October 13, 1997=20
Sites=20 to help you survive the NT = evangelists --=20 Jeff catalogues the best NT support = sites=20 anywhere..
October 6, 1997=20
Filling=20 the community needs of Web = innovators --=20 Jeff finds online gathering places for = all types=20 of Web professionals.
September 29, 1997=20
Web=20 site design means long learning = curve --=20 Jeff finds several informative sites = that offer=20 tips on how to work effectively in the = Web=20 medium.
September 22, 1997=20
Inexpensive=20 site protection using CGI, Java -- = Jeff=20 scouts the Web for simple-to-use and = inexpensive=20 products that use CGI and Java to = protect Web=20 sites from the prying eyes of = unauthorized=20 users.
September 15, 1997=20
Sites=20 that support the life of a mobile = user --=20 Jeff uncovers numerous Web sites that = will help=20 you live the untethered life.
September 8, 1997=20
Feeling=20 right at home with automation -- If = your=20 next home improvement project involves=20 automating some of the functions in your = house,=20 Jeff tells you where you can find = information on=20 products, techniques, tips and tricks. =
September 1, 1997=20
Financial=20 data is as close as your Net = connection --=20 Jeff tells you where you can point your = browser=20 to find a wealth of financial = information on the=20 Web.
August 25, 1997=20
Web-site=20 ratings: Self-imposed censorship? = The pros=20 and cons of content labeling and how you = can=20 rate your own site.
August 18, 1997=20
Macintosh-based=20 HTML tools grow abundant-- Certain = Mac-based=20 publishing tools are outpacing their = Windows=20 counterparts.
August 11, 1997=20
Online=20 communities are central to Web = evolution --=20 Don't be anti-social on the Web. Check = out these=20 disscussion areas.
August 4, 1997=20
XML:=20 Clarity for Web developers, or = confusion? --=20 Is HTML a thing of the past? Find out = why XML=20 could change the ways of the Web.
July 28, 1997=20
Read=20 up on the Web's evolving business = plan --=20 Starting a business Web site takes = careful=20 strategy. Take Jeff's advice: = Read.
July 21, 1997=20
Most=20 of the Web is unfriendly to the = challenged=20 -- Jeff points to sites that offer tips = for=20 accommodating the needs of the disabled = into Web=20 page designs.
July 14, 1997=20
Visiting=20 Mars -- 'Cyberspace' finally lives = up to its=20 name-- visit the Red Planet.
July 7, 1997=20
VRML's=20 future is in the hands of the geeks = -- Jeff=20 searches for ways VRML is being used, = but=20 doesn't find much.
June 30, 1997=20
The=20 CDA in review: Silencing the whiners = -- Jeff=20 uses his Internet freedom to review = these=20 "decent" sites.
June 23, 1997=20
Are=20 those 'persistent cookies' good or = evil? --=20 catch web pages with their hands in the = cookie=20 jar.
June 9, 1997=20
Make=20 sure to get your online FAQs = straight --=20 writing FAQ's for your site can be a = long,=20 difficult process.
June 2, 1997=20
Add=20 power to your Web Site with VBScript = --=20 VBScript can add a great deal of = functionality=20 and pizzazz to your site.
May 26, 1997=20
More=20 outstanding Java applets you can use = -- The=20 Web offers lots of easy-to-use, = inexpensive=20 applets and applications.
May 19, 1997=20
Web=20 site building tools are starting to = mature=20 -- Finding new ways to shape your corner = of the=20 Web.
May 12, 1997=20
Some=20 innovative ways of searching the Web = --=20 Going beyond your typical = browser.
May 5, 1997=20
Distribute=20 your business slide shows on the Web = --=20 Designing a presentation that can go=20 anywhere.
April 28, 1997=20
Organizing=20 in the face of an expanding Web -- = Auto=20 browsers pick up where search engines = leave=20 off.
April 21, 1997=20
Online=20 help trickles out in variations on style = sheets -- Jeff helps you navigate = through=20 the confusion.
April 14, 1997=20
Gray=20 market for Net domain names is = growing --=20 Jeff covers sites that help sort out the = tangled=20 domain name market.
April 7, 1997=20
Researching=20 the Net advertising business model = -- Jeff=20 explores banners and other kinds of Net=20 advertising.
March 31, 1997=20
Using=20 Java to connect databases to the Net = -- Jeff=20 shows how to streamline linking = databases to the=20 Net.
March 24, 1997=20
A=20 look at 'underdog' Java development = tools --=20 Jeff navigates through the sea of Java=20 development tools and points out the = best=20 bets.
March 17, 1997=20
Cool=20 Java applets abound on the Internet = -- and=20 Jeff knows just where to look.
March 10, 1997=20
Cut=20 overhead via low-cost Web page = service --=20 Jeff catalogues sites that offer = inexpensive=20 server space for corporate Web = pages
March 3, 1997=20
There's=20 still a big need for Win 3.1 = browsers --=20 Companies heavily invested in Windows = 3.1=20 needn't worry about 16-bit browsers. = Jeff says=20 there are plenty out there.
February 24, 1997=20
What=20 it means when your Web site slows = down --=20 Jeff catalogues sites that help you find = out=20 where and why Web server performance = bottlenecks=20 occur.
February 17, 1997=20
The=20 basics to creating your own online = store --=20 Join an Internet mall? Go it alone? Jeff = lists=20 sites that will help you make decisions = about=20 your company's presence on the = Web.
February 10, 1997=20
A=20 Web site content plan saves time, = resources=20 -- Content is king, even on the Web. = Jeff says=20 don't underestimate the planning = involved in=20 producing content on your site.
February 3, 1997=20
'Flat'=20 Web sites are out; sites that 'pop' are = in=20 -- Jeff continues his series on creating = a solid=20 Web site, this time focusing on = presentation and=20 design.
January 27, 1997=20
3-D=20 adds a fun dimension to a retooled = site --=20 Three-dimensional graphics can make a=20 flat-looking Web site sharp, but it's = critical=20 to know when their use is = appropriate.
January 20, 1997=20
Internet=20 phone: More than conversation piece = --=20 Internet telephony is finally starting = to get=20 the respect it deserves. Jeff points to = sites=20 that help companies make the most of the = new=20 technology.
January 13, 1997=20
Meta=20 tags can index, organize your Web = pages --=20 Knowing what meta tags are and how to = use them=20 can make a difference in the amount of = traffic=20 your Web site receives.
January 6, 1997=20
The=20 who's who of Web viruses and = wannabes --=20 Some Web viruses are mere Internet = legend, but=20 others are a real threat. Jeff = catalogues a few=20 sites that make the distinction.

Index=20 of 1996 Safaris=20
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------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BCE027.13703B80-- From <@WVU.EDU:rphipps@HERMES.ICRC.WVU.EDU> Mon Oct 27 15:17:27 1997 Return-Path: <<@WVU.EDU:rphipps@HERMES.ICRC.WVU.EDU>> Received: from WVU.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA26901; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:17:26 -0500 Received: from WVU.EDU by WVU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 4108; Mon, 27 Oct 97 15:19:43 EDT Received: from WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (NJE origin MAILER@WVNVM) by WVU.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 8200; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:18:31 -0500 Received: from WVNVM (NJE origin SMTP2@WVNVM) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 5846; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:18:31 -0500 Received: from hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (157.182.21.9) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with TCP; Mon, 27 Oct 97 15:18:30 EDT Received: from rphipps.wvu.edu by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA26876; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:16:10 -0500 From: "Robert Phipps" To: Subject: FWD: Content Organization Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:19:38 -0500 Message-ID: <01bce315$a669c820$5f15b69d@rphipps.wvu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 content-length: 3303 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000012 Rich, This may be of interest to you. Have you seen the software they refer to? Robert -----Original Message----- From: neil job To: Multiple recipients of list UWEBD Date: Monday, October 27, 1997 12:02 PM Subject: Re: Content vs. discontent >---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- >Sender: University Web Design >Poster: neil job >Organization: NetPressPublishing >Subject: Re: Content vs. discontent >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > >I agree that these are the key roles of the academic web master: > >(1) disseminate information, after digesting it in such a way > as to catalog it and structure it, so as to facilitate > searching, and >(2) archiving---the web may be the only place where some materials > may have, paradoxically, some degree of permanence, > assuming that webmasters give considerable thought to this > issue. > >I personally could benefit from much stronger graphic design skills but >I have focused on developing skills in the two stated objectives, >information structure and archiving. I have been using software tools >from Folio Corporation, at www.folio.com that help me achieve these >objectives by converting information into Folio infobases. > >In the hands of real graphic design oriented web masters the Folio >infobase technology can enable the delivery of structured, archived info >at university web sites while preserving high quality, pleasing visual >presentation. > >Among the types of university publications that can be enhanced via >packaging as infobases include journals, doctoral dissertations, >academic catalogs (my specialty), reference works and conference >proceedings. Folio's products allow you to create infobases that are >structured and searchable to the point where searches take you directly >to each highlighted instance of your search topic. In addition to >powerful full text searches you can have fielded searches and offer >searches specific to your fielded topics such as author, subject or >whatever. For an example do a "program" search on marketing or some >other program offering in the 97-98 catalog at www.cudenver.edu and >compare the results to a "full-text" search entry on marketing. > >Infobases are delivered to the web via Folio's siteDirector NT based >server software which converts discreet portions of an infobase to HTML >on the fly depending on user input. siteDirector allows you to >customize the presentation of each infobase using HTML "SoftPages" which >are analagous to style sheets. I have been using Folio Views 3.1 and >siteDirector 3.1 products to deliver catalog infobases for some colleges >and universities. This combination of tools has required some difficult >effort where table formatting is required but the new Folio Views 4.1 >products solve that problem by allowing the preservation of table format >from imported source files. Basically an infobase is easy to create from >any number of source files including MS Word, WordPerfect, Quark XPress, >Pagemaker, HTML, ASCII text an so on. > >Sincerely, >Neil >www.venturapublishing.com From wbolyard@AS.WVU.EDU Tue Oct 28 08:55:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: from AS.WVU.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA01134; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:55:43 -0500 Received: from WVUECAS1/SpoolDir by AS.WVU.EDU (Mercury 1.21); 28 Oct 97 08:51:36 ESTEDT Received: from SpoolDir by WVUECAS1 (Mercury 1.21); 28 Oct 97 08:49:25 ESTEDT From: "Wendy L. Bolyard" Organization: WVU Eberly College of Arts&Sciences To: "Rich Goldman" Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:49:25 ESTEDT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: looks good! X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Message-ID: <1DE69E52178@AS.WVU.EDU> content-length: 1194 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000013 Rich--The new page looks great! I am very excited about it. The LED looks fine. Do you want more text? Can you put "Thanks for visting the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences . . . the HEART of West Virginia University" Something to that effect? We still need boxes of some sort around the Dean's message and the development info. Photos look cool. How are we doing on the links? Any other questions I can answer? Keep me updated. Thanks! Wendy > From: "Rich Goldman" > To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" > Subject: Re: report > Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 23:45:31 -0800 > Hi Wendy, > I've got an LED working but I'm not sure I like it; it look like Wayne took > the LED sign of the University homepage as well-ostensible as a result of > some pressure: seems some thought it put too much emphasis on athletics. > > What do you think? > > **************** Wendy L. Bolyard College Relations Director Eberly College of Arts & Sciences WVU P.O. Box 6286 Morgantown, WV 26506-6286 Phone 304-293-4611 Fax 304-293-6858 wbolyard@as.wvu.edu THE EBERLY COLLEGE - THE HEART OF WVU From wbolyard@AS.WVU.EDU Tue Oct 28 10:17:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: from AS.WVU.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA01862; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 10:17:49 -0500 Received: from WVUECAS1/SpoolDir by AS.WVU.EDU (Mercury 1.21); 28 Oct 97 10:13:44 ESTEDT Received: from SpoolDir by WVUECAS1 (Mercury 1.21); 28 Oct 97 10:13:20 ESTEDT From: "Wendy L. Bolyard" Organization: WVU Eberly College of Arts&Sciences To: "Rich Goldman" Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 10:13:19 ESTEDT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: looks good! X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.33) Message-ID: <1DFCFE70156@AS.WVU.EDU> content-length: 2107 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000014 OSU looks good, too--I think it's a good model. > From: "Rich Goldman" > To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" > Subject: Re: looks good! > Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:53:33 -0500 > I was feeling good 'til I saw this one: > http://www.osu.edu/ > > I was thinking about using OSU's as a model for the sub-menu pages..? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wendy L. Bolyard > To: Rich Goldman > Date: Tuesday, October 28, 1997 8:55 AM > Subject: looks good! > > > Rich--The new page looks great! I am very excited about it. The > LED looks fine. Do you want more text? Can you put "Thanks for > visting the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences . . . the HEART of > West Virginia University" Something to that effect? We still need > boxes of some sort around the Dean's message and the development > info. Photos look cool. How are we doing on the links? Any other > questions I can answer? Keep me updated. Thanks! Wendy > > > From: "Rich Goldman" > > To: "Wendy L. Bolyard" > > Subject: Re: report > > Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 23:45:31 -0800 > > > Hi Wendy, > > I've got an LED working but I'm not sure I like it; it look like Wayne > took > > the LED sign of the University homepage as well-ostensible as a result of > > some pressure: seems some thought it put too much emphasis on athletics. > > > > What do you think? > > > > > **************** > Wendy L. Bolyard > College Relations Director > Eberly College of Arts & Sciences > WVU P.O. Box 6286 > Morgantown, WV 26506-6286 > Phone 304-293-4611 Fax 304-293-6858 > wbolyard@as.wvu.edu > THE EBERLY COLLEGE - THE HEART OF WVU > > > **************** Wendy L. Bolyard College Relations Director Eberly College of Arts & Sciences WVU P.O. Box 6286 Morgantown, WV 26506-6286 Phone 304-293-4611 Fax 304-293-6858 wbolyard@as.wvu.edu THE EBERLY COLLEGE - THE HEART OF WVU From <@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU:rphipps@HERMES.ICRC.WVU.EDU> Fri Oct 17 12:02:00 1997 Return-Path: <<@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU:rphipps@HERMES.ICRC.WVU.EDU>> Received: from WVNVM.WVNET.EDU by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA24331; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:01:59 -0400 Received: from WVU.EDU by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 6870; Fri, 17 Oct 97 12:04:06 EDT Received: from WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (NJE origin MAILER@WVNVM) by WVU.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 0837; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:04:06 -0400 Received: from WVNVM (NJE origin SMTP3@WVNVM) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 5255; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:03:33 -0400 Received: from hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (157.182.21.9) by WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with TCP; Fri, 17 Oct 97 12:03:29 EDT Received: from rphipps.wvu.edu by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA24323; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:01:19 -0400 From: "Robert Phipps" To: Cc: "Tom Moran" Subject: Fw: other than FrontPage Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:57:01 -0400 Message-ID: <01bcdb15$4e6b9200$5f15b69d@rphipps.wvu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 content-length: 1287 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000015 FYI. Robert -----Original Message----- From: David Cole To: Multiple recipients of list UWEBD Date: Friday, October 17, 1997 11:31 AM Subject: other than FrontPage >---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- >Sender: University Web Design >Poster: David Cole >Subject: other than FrontPage >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > >Three html tools I use regularly, in addition to FP: > >Netobjects Fusion - excellent graphics approach to page design; version 2 >release is 60% determined by web designers and webmasters suggestions. >Allaire HomeSite, now ver3 in beta - excellent for global replace across >many pages >Netscape Web Publisher, packaged with Enterprise 3 server package, all of >which is free to educational users. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >David Cole >Webmaster, Syracuse University Continuing Education >http://www.suce.syr.edu >(315) 443-3324 (phone) (315) 443-4174 (fax) >205 Reid Hall, Syracuse University >Syracuse, NY 13244 >------------------------- >NativeWeb General Coordinator, http://www.nativeweb.org From svasel@solgate.com Thu Oct 30 13:36:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: from ns2.computer-services.com by hermes.icrc.wvu.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA17253; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 13:36:11 -0500 From: svasel@solgate.com Received: from localhost (fsict-tc8-01.feist.com [198.247.6.101]) by ns2.computer-services.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA04447 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 13:41:09 -0600 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 13:41:09 -0600 Message-Id: <199710301941.NAA04447@ns2.computer-services.com> To: webmaster@hermes.icrc.wvu.edu Subject: problem X-Mailer: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 2.1; Mac_68000) content-length: 242 Status: RO X-Status: $$$$ X-UID: 0000000016 I tried to get information on the Biology department by clicking it's link, http://www.as.wvu.edu/biology/, and nothing loaded. A new window opened titled Department of Biology at WVU but nothing else came up. Scott Vasel rsvasel@feist.com