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Well, I decided to do it - I'm starting a web journal. I think I'll keep this hidden for a week before I put a link up to it. I'm building the site in FrontPage. It's less stupid than Publisher, I find. I spent a bunch of time just playing with backgrounds and fonts and colors. The background that I ended up with is one that came bundled with one of my Microsoft packages. I haven't had very good luck looking for backgrounds on the web in the past.
As I mention on the front page of this journal, I started thinking about the idea of a journal of my online activity after looking at Diane Patterson's web journal "nobody knows anything". It's pretty neat. I really like her article "why web journals suck". I need to remember to go back there every once in a while and see if I'm violating any of the guidelines given there. I also liked her having a "dramatis personae" and a "glossary of terms". For now, I just have a page of background information to describe my basic uses for the internet. Maybe someday that will get expanded. I'll really have to see what direction this goes in.
Today I checked out the "Why the web sucks" article (actually, version 2 of the article) for the first time. I've heard reference to it before. I'll have to go check out how my page looks from a non-PC before I put it up to make sure I'm not egregiously assuming people have the same set up as me. I used to be obsessive about all web pages being viewable on black and white machines that can't show graphics (guess what I had in my office until a few months ago...) but it now seems to me that the web has moved on. This page isn't a necessity for anyone to view. I'd like it to be somewhat attractive. So, there will be background and graphics and stuff like that. The content issue...well, we'll see how that turns out.
I just found a really neat link from that article - a page listing common internet file formats. This is too neat. There is a big chart that gives a file suffix, a format description and type for that suffix, and a list of programs that you can use to deal with that format of file. Mostly graphics, sound and movie formats. There is then a listing of where you can get each of the software packages mentioned, mostly downloadable from the web. What a great resource!
In other parts of the internet, I put some new reviews up on the booklist site. I'm all caught up with that mail. The crochet list I'm way behind in from not having read it for so long. I'll have to try to get caught up this weekend.
This could be fun. I can't wait to see how it all turns out.