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> One thing is for sure: You've put a lot of effort on this.
> The source code is clear, so, I suppose it is hand
> written? Perhaps generated by a custom db app of
> your own?

My HTML editor is Notepad.exe and all pages were done manually (well, I
wrote a program to do the time tags at the bottom and another to remove the
'avoid  search engine robots" meta tag:
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
from the pages on RoadRunner (that meta-tag is still in the pages at
http://users.deltacomm.com/edmulroy mirror because bandwidth is an issue
there).

The site has been building for a long time - I started it in '96 (although
it was on Compuserve back then).  It's really a clone of what is on my
machine and is on the web so that I can use the same environment even if on
the road and accessing form Kinko's or the library or something.  It's grown
over time - I add a link when I visit it and it seems I might visit it again
later.  It started with maybe 4 pages and now has 53 pages.  Moving to using
a style sheet brought it down from 800+K to about 670K.

> How do you handle broken links?   For example
> http://www.designmadeingermany.de/dmiq/ (in "interestingly
> designed sites") was broken when I tried.

Oh no!!  I liked that site and was at it just recently and had not yet
learned all of how he did it.  I just checked and yes, it's offline.  I'll
remove the link.  Check out the "Discovering Montana" site.  It may not blow
you away visually, but it's a typical table-designed site yet there is but
one table - almost all of it is done with CSS.

I use another site to check for broken links (the link is on the html.htm
page).
  http://www.fixingyourwebsite.com/drhtml.html
and periodically click links manually to check (not all links that go away
throw a 404 error - some get grabbed by another site).

> By the way, would you consider adding http://www.wotsit.org
> in the "file formats" section or is it out of topic?

That is the 2nd link under File Formats on prog5.htm with the unhelpful
title of
"File Formats" :-(   I'll change the title of the link to
"File Formats @ wotsit.org"
I want to keep the name starting with the 'F' to keep it up in the list
(entries are alphabetical by title).

That change is now on the server - all of html.htm, prog5.htm and
medical.htm were changed (the site gets updated frequently, I'm working on
having enough discipline to only update it once per day).

> I guess there are a million ways for constructing a directory
> like site. Yours, carries an original format which is fine with me.

Very polite - have you considered a career as a diplomat? :-)  The "original
format" is because I don't know any better.  Rudy Velthuis suggested a
change to 2 colums of data with a menu and I did that.  You can see what the
site used to look like in 2000 (without the background gif) if you go to the
Internet Archive (WayBackMachine) at http://www.archive.org and look for
this:
  http://users.deltacomm.com/edmulroy

If you have any suggestions, constructive criticisms or even lethal barbs
about the site, please feel free to fire them at me.

.  Ed

> Nick B. Cassos wrote in message
> news:p6uaevs5bjk8k99huecd35m0n56fkhsu2d@4ax.com...
>
> Thanks for honouring me! I have to admit, however, I feel a bit
> awkwardly about this...
>
> One thing is for sure: You've put a lot of effort on this. The source
> code is clear, so, I suppose it is hand written? Perhaps generated
> by a custom db app of your own?
>
> I guess there are a million ways for constructing a directory like
> site. Yours, carries an original format which is fine with me. The
> sitemap is very functional.
>
> How do you handle broken links? For example
> http://www.designmadeingermany.de/dmiq/ (in "interestingly
> designed sites") was broken when I tried. If you use a custom database to
hold
> your links then could it be useful to iterate them once a while (by
> code of course)?
>
> By the way, would you consider adding http://www.wotsit.org in the
> "file formats" section or is it out of topic?
>
> --
>
> Nick B. Cassos
> http://www.flenik.com