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Issue 1:1 © CCA 1996
 HERE is plenty of advice available on
creating home pages. Gurus of all kinds have their opinions on how it should be done. The people often left out of consideration are the end users.
A recent survey claims that 60% of Web users have a 14400 or 28800kbs modem and for over 70% it takes too long to download pages. Bad news, particularly if you have to pay for local telephone calls. So this page has minimal artwork. It combines an advertisement for my business with on how to customize browsers for quicker and more comfortable viewing. That is, the ones I've been able to test on a PC running Windows 3.11. |
Comfort is the reason for a two-column display if your browser handles tables, otherwise you see just one. It's easier for the eye to travel down the centre of columns than across long lines of text. Scrolling - an allegedly unpopular task - is also reduced. There will be other sections in the future. I intend - yes I know the road to cyberhell is paved with good intentions - to produce a well-constructed page that is informative and updated regularly as well as inspiring people to employ my skills to our mutual benefit. So do come back. |
 OCUMENTATION Services covers a lot. I'm a freelance technical writer and have written on a variety of subjects, mostly to do with computing, the field in which I started out as a programmer.
Documentation and supporting activities include:
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My work hitherto has been on paper but that will change as I develop HTML authoring, page creation and web editing skills.
A while ago I did a study of SGML and its suitability for dictionaries. Having to deal with typesetters' codes has made me a staunch supporter of portable documents. If you would like further information, please get in touch by e-mail. |
 ERE are some suggestions for browsers tested on a PC with a colour monitor. Choosing your own colours for links and background can give your eyes an easier time. Try a pale background colour rather than white.
Stopping the automatic load of images helps speed things up. If you are interested in graphics and would like to find out more, you may find GIF image resources worth a visit. CELLO (1.01a) lets you choose everything for headings if it recognizes them. Links look better underlined. Set these and the background colour as well as disabling graphics from the Configure menu. |
MOSAIC (2.0) doesn't permit changes to its choice of colours for headings. You can set the background colour, but you must also disable the body attributes to make sure it works. To make changes to these and image loading, choose the Options menu, then Preferences, then Document. NETSCAPE (1.2N) not only allows changes to the background colour, it also lets you specify your own image file. From the Options menu, where you can stop images from loading, choose Preferences, then Colors. |