Date:         Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:33:13 -0700
Reply-To:     Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
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From:         Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Freeware to reduce image file sizes for my Vanagon website?
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>> >A look at Richard's code shows an efficient and simple text only
>> >page. Web designers today seem to be unable to resist using every
>> >possible gimmick available.
>
> Indeed... why have "pretty" graphics which can make a page take
> minutes to load (or even stall) with a so-called "dialup" connection?
> Sites like that bug the heck out of me.

I'm glad some like my simple approach.  I like simple, too.

But my simple web pages have a simple historical origin.
I was managing Unix labs when the net came along and so
brought up the first web server at the University
(now www.colorado.edu) and probably the first personal
web server on my desktop Sun, which is now jones.colorado.edu.
(Prior incarnations were named bakmes, ennui and coyote....)

So I learned original HTML in 1992, used vi to "write"
web pages--and typical of me, have learned nothing since.
The HTML I learned hadn't invented background color yet.

To make a new trip report, I copy an old trip report's .html
files, edit them with vi, and add the link.  [All this from
home with a secure shell terminal program; I don't even know
where my machine is located anymore!]  They are usually
broken up into 4-5 photo pages to help those who used 56kb
lines in the past.  For Buses By the Bridge, I just did one
bigger page; no sympathy for low-speed folks now.  ;-)

If you understand all this, you'll like:
http://jones.colorado.edu/jones/sandwich.png
(Sudo was invented at Colorado by Evi Nemeth and others.)

Richard