And Now a Few Words from our Author

This was my first foray into the wacky world of HTML. Although I'd had the programs and the ISP account for nearly a year, I'd been putting off the actual execution [no pun intended] until I was sure I had the 24 hours to put into the effort. It's the debugging that's so MUCH fun.

I am distressed to find that Netscape DOESN'T support Marquee while Internet Explorer DOES and that Internet Explorer DOESN'T support Blink and that Netscape DOES. Who's in charge here?

Anyhoo, I'm no computer whiz but I am pretty stubborn. I bought three HTML publishing manuals back in February [it now being the middle of August] and two different HTML publishing programs after not having much fun with the freebies out there. HotDog Pro could use a couple of features [I hear they have a new 32 bit version] but once you get past the meager manual it gets to be kinda fun.

HotDog isn't paying me for this unsolicited testimonial. I have no stock in Anawave. I just thought I'd mention how well it works in case any more neophytes out there are knashing their teeth in dispair. They do have a working demo available on their system. I tried one of them before I bought this copy. They even have a little icon on the toolbar with a picture of Rover that deposits their website into these documents when you push it. I made the link on the homepage myself from what was left of my tutorial effort but the one that follows here will be from the Rover button.

This page was created with the Hot Dog Pro Web Page Editor

Kinda makes you misty, don't it?

The biggest pain in the eyes is trying to match the text colors over these busy backgrounds. HotDog does have a real-time viewer built in that doesn't support all the HTML 3.0 stuff so you can see what the lower creatures are going to see. It also has what it calls a "reality check" color monitor that does help get some kind of balance before you inflict your garish color schemes on an unsuspecting Websurfer.

Well, that was the last smiley I had from my other HTML program [Web Construction Kit]. This entire diatribe was just an excuse to use the rest of them. After this adventure, I can see my color scanner and I and ABC Graphics and their new QuickSilver interface for Internet publishing are all going to be very busy. I do have 3 megs of server space to use up after all. Now, the Internet world is my oyster. [I used the world here because I didn't have a .GIF of an oyster {but I will}.]

BTW, there are links to all these vendors I keep name-dropping in my bookmarks page. I'm just an enthusiastic user not a paid lackey despite my waxing complimentary. I've really enjoyed it and look forward to making it even more complicated.

Finders of this Easter Egg.

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