While designing this web site, it occurred to me that formatting it similar to a book a reference book was the best way to design a site that would eventually grow to over 1000 pages. All of the components of a book seemed to be needed to have continuity and ease of flow for the visitor. By creating a cover home page that gives the visitor some idea of what to expect in this book, followed by this forward that gives some idea behind the thinking in the design, a table of contents that provides an outline that can shorten access to specific subjects, followed by the chapters and pages, and finally the index that can be used as the shortcut to any page in the book. Developing a website of this magnitude is a project that is utilizing all of my 40 years experience developing computer applications. In observing the web, Ive found many sites with really cool graphics and great things going on. I found that many of those great things are not working on my computer for one reason or another, therefore, I opted to keep this site very basic and maybe later when everyone has Pentium 400s, I can add all kinds of great things. This site should operate on almost every computer without difficulty. Also, almost all the pages are under 30k, so downloads should be reasonably fast, of course depending on your computers, lines, etc. By the way, this site is being developed on a Pentium 75, with 40 meg of ram, and a 1.2 gig hard drive. Im using a zip drive to supplement my storage needs. All the images are being loaded by using a Sony Hi8 video camera and a Snappy. Some images are live and some from tape. Im using Netscape Gold havent had to write one letter of html for page development and PhotoShop to work over the images. Viewing is best with Netscape. Next best is Microsoft Explorer. The browser in American Online doesnt always handle the images perfectly; leaving a streak of discoloration across the image. To solve this, just simply make sure that Uncompressed Images under Prefs is selected located at the top of the browser. Other proprietary browsers may distort or present a discoloration of the images.

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