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[Christopher A. Steele]

I'm not very conversant with the terminology of web design (or perhaps
this is more a 'marketing' question?), but here goes.

Where can I go to gain a better understanding of the different
'conceptual designs' -- or innovations in functionality of design --
that are being persued on the net? For instance, Wikipedia is quite a
different animal than the typical website, and I'm curious about what
other 'concepts' or ideas are being used or experimented with.

Christopher A. Steele
(e-mail address removed)
(banish 'rambler' from above to e-mail)

Son of Col. Marvin J. Steele
WWII: 8th Air Force, 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), Horham, England
Never Turned Back on a Mission
3 Distinguished Unit Citations (the only 8th Air Force Bomb Group to
be so recognized): 17 Aug 1943; Regensburg / 10 Oct 1943 Munster / 4
Mar 1944 Berlin
"First B-17s Over Berlin"

Korea/Cold War: US Army Security Agency/Adj. General Corps: Postings
at Fts: Richardson, Devens, Rucker, Lawton, Oakland Army Terminal,
Thailand, Korea

 

[brucie]

In alt.www.webmaster,alt.html Christopher A. Steele said:

Christopher A. Steele
(e-mail address removed)
(banish 'rambler' from above to e-mail)
Son of Col. Marvin J. Steele
WWII: 8th Air Force, 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), Horham, England
Never Turned Back on a Mission
3 Distinguished Unit Citations (the only 8th Air Force Bomb Group to
be so recognized): 17 Aug 1943; Regensburg / 10 Oct 1943 Munster / 4
Mar 1944 Berlin
"First B-17s Over Berlin"
Korea/Cold War: US Army Security Agency/Adj. General Corps: Postings
at Fts: Richardson, Devens, Rucker, Lawton, Oakland Army Terminal,
Thailand, Korea

are we supposed to care or something?

 

[Charles Sweeney]

I'm not very conversant with the terminology of web design (or perhaps
this is more a 'marketing' question?), but here goes.

Where can I go to gain a better understanding of the different
'conceptual designs' -- or innovations in functionality of design --
that are being persued on the net? For instance, Wikipedia is quite a
different animal than the typical website, and I'm curious about what
other 'concepts' or ideas are being used or experimented with.

Christopher A. Steele
(e-mail address removed)
(banish 'rambler' from above to e-mail)

Son of Col. Marvin J. Steele
WWII: 8th Air Force, 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), Horham, England
Never Turned Back on a Mission
3 Distinguished Unit Citations (the only 8th Air Force Bomb Group to
be so recognized): 17 Aug 1943; Regensburg / 10 Oct 1943 Munster / 4
Mar 1944 Berlin
"First B-17s Over Berlin"

Korea/Cold War: US Army Security Agency/Adj. General Corps: Postings
at Fts: Richardson, Devens, Rucker, Lawton, Oakland Army Terminal,
Thailand, Korea

God almighty. Is that a sig or a feeble attempt at compensation for
inadequacies elsewhere?

Looks like the sort of thing a warmongering, half-witted redneck would
write.

 

[Sam Hughes]

(e-mail address removed) (Christopher A. Steele) wrote in

I'm not very conversant with the terminology of web design (or perhaps
this is more a 'marketing' question?), but here goes.

Where can I go to gain a better understanding of the different
'conceptual designs' -- or innovations in functionality of design --
that are being persued on the net? For instance, Wikipedia is quite a
different animal than the typical website, and I'm curious about what
other 'concepts' or ideas are being used or experimented with.

I have seen many people "experimenting" with XHTML, by which I mean, they
mix XHTML and HTML syntax, producing a mess.

Christopher A. Steele
(e-mail address removed)
(banish 'rambler' from above to e-mail)

Son of Col. Marvin J. Steele
WWII: 8th Air Force, 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), Horham, England
Never Turned Back on a Mission
3 Distinguished Unit Citations (the only 8th Air Force Bomb Group to
be so recognized): 17 Aug 1943; Regensburg / 10 Oct 1943 Munster / 4
Mar 1944 Berlin
"First B-17s Over Berlin"

Korea/Cold War: US Army Security Agency/Adj. General Corps: Postings
at Fts: Richardson, Devens, Rucker, Lawton, Oakland Army Terminal,
Thailand, Korea

It is customary to keep sigs to four lines or less and to precede them with
a line containing "-- ".

 

[NOXwebmasterx]

...they
mix XHTML and HTML syntax, producing a mess.

No, no Sam.
XHTML is the SON of HTML and XML,
WWII, gleam in eye of A. Turing........
<snip 20 more lines of 'bio' terrorism>

 

[Matt Probert]

Where can I go to gain a better understanding of the different
'conceptual designs' -- or innovations in functionality of design --
that are being persued on the net? For instance, Wikipedia is quite a
different animal than the typical website, and I'm curious about what
other 'concepts' or ideas are being used or experimented with.

Try looking around.

Matt

 

[Gerry W ( Use my name at dergal dot c o m for emai]

I'm not very conversant with the terminology of web design (or perhaps
this is more a 'marketing' question?), but here goes.

Where can I go to gain a better understanding of the different
'conceptual designs' -- or innovations in functionality of design --
that are being persued on the net? For instance, Wikipedia is quite a
different animal than the typical website, and I'm curious about what
other 'concepts' or ideas are being used or experimented with.

Christopher A. Steele
(e-mail address removed)
(banish 'rambler' from above to e-mail)

Son of Col. Marvin J. Steele
WWII: 8th Air Force, 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), Horham, England
Never Turned Back on a Mission
3 Distinguished Unit Citations (the only 8th Air Force Bomb Group to
be so recognized): 17 Aug 1943; Regensburg / 10 Oct 1943 Munster / 4
Mar 1944 Berlin
"First B-17s Over Berlin"

Korea/Cold War: US Army Security Agency/Adj. General Corps: Postings
at Fts: Richardson, Devens, Rucker, Lawton, Oakland Army Terminal,
Thailand, Korea

Wow - shame you haven't seen any better ideas ...
Considering the weekend (date) - I guess the other comments were
exceptionally insesitive...

Anyhow - www.CoolHomePages.com ( I think I haven't checked it) is the
source I use when talking about all the different designs ...

 

[Christopher A. Steele]

Actually, "God almighty. Is that a sig or a feeble attempt at
compensation for inadequacies elsewhere?" might not be too far from
wrong.

Years ago, when I was on Prodigy and Compuserve -- this was before
all this fancy HTML/XML/whatever stuff -- I received a message from a
gentleman who saw my name on a post and wondered if I was related to a
Captain M. J. Steele, with whom, the writer said, "I had the pleasure
of serving."


I didn't respond to the writer ... too busy ... whatever. But I've
always regretted not writing back. I would have liked to hear the
story, whatever it was he had to tell.

So recently I've added the 'sig' in the hope that some of those with
whom he served might recognize the name, and write with another story
about how my father took care of the young men and women who were
risking their lives every day so we could live ours in peace, and who
had no one else on base on whom they could rely for help. Doing so,
after all, is the principal function of the Adjutant General on an
Army base or Post.

It may have been like the story of Capt. Steele, AGC (the only
officer on a base aside from the base commander who can sign the
commander's name) who, having learned that there was an Army dentist
on base who was treating the troops WITHOUT any pain killers so he
could learn -- in the dentists own words -- "if they were MEN." My
father heard what the dentist was doing (an officer, BTW), interviewed
him, and shipped him to Korea the next day, "to find out if HE was a
man."

Or the heuy helicopter pilot-trainee at Ft. Rucker in '66 who
couldn't complete his training because his paperwork was purposefully
'lost' by his company XO, thus preventing the pilot-to-be from
finishing school. Capt. Steele found out about the situation, called
the XO to his office for a short 'chat,' and the paperwork was found
the next DAY. The pilot completed his training, and went on to save
quite a few lives in Viet Nam, he and his UH-1. (I didn't know
anything about this story until the pilot found me a few years ago and
told me about it.)

My brother, advised in the 50's by Lt. Steele to get involved with
computers, worked with or on both the Advanced Research Projects
Agency (APRA) and the ARPANET plan. I'm a bit slower, so I only got
involved with computers (and the net, or what there was of it) in
about '89 or so.

I didn't have any idea there were parameters for 'sig' lines --
having seen so many extremely long ones (usually associated with some
kind of business, come to think of it). So, to the extent I can, I'll
try and learn from this experience.

During the last 15 years, I've met some really GREAT people on the
net, and I've always tried to pay their kindnesses back by taking the
time, and having the patience, to help others. What goes around truly
does come around.

Unfortunately, every once in a great, great while, I come across
rude, unhelpful, immature, sophmoric people: I've no doubt you think
-- with your immature sensibilities -- that those are kudos. And they
almost certainly are.

Christopher A. Steele
(e-mail address removed)
(banish 'rambler' from above to e-mail)

Son of Col. Marvin J. Steele
WWII: 8th Air Force, 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), Horham, England
Never Turned Back on a Mission
3 Distinguished Unit Citations (the only 8th Air Force Bomb Group to
be so recognized): 17 Aug 1943; Regensburg / 10 Oct 1943 Munster / 4
Mar 1944 Berlin
"First B-17s Over Berlin"

Korea/Cold War: US Army Security Agency/Adj. General Corps: Postings
at Fts: Richardson, Devens, Rucker, Lawton, Oakland Army Terminal,
Thailand, Korea