I want my web site to be like sitting down with a new issue of QST magazine. There would be
lots of interesting articles with personal experiences and specific examples to hold ones attention.
It should have enough attraction to draw one back a few times. My target audience is a ham or prospective
ham who is looking for some entertainment. What I am not expecting is for many people to bookmark my
site because like QST, once it's been read it's tossed. Sometimes we keep QST around for a few months
for one specific article or column. If we want to archive that material we tear it out and file it.
Same with my web site. If one finds something they specifically want to refer to again they can bookmark
that particular link or copy it and file it. I never intended to make any money from my site.
In fact I have not copyrighted my code and I am giving it away free to anyone who wants it.
I want my web site to be interesting to hams and hold their attention for two or three visits.
I want a ham to get a warm fuzzy temporarily and say to himself, "Ooh, that's neat. I want to find
out how that guy did that...". I want to have enough depth in my articles to avoid just being fluff.
I want to have enough good links that one might bookmark my site just for the links.
I'm not trying to compete with anyone including eHam. eHam is a dynamic clearinghouse which I admire greatly
but I would be kidding myself to think that my site could be anything close to that. I don't have
any useful new ideas for a
database such as callsign lookup or DX information. That's been done by smarter people than me. I
wish I could come up with a new idea because then I'd have a site that definitely would get
bookmarked.
I knew nothing of how to code a web site a year ago except that it looked daunting and overwhelming.
In April, 2001 I went to the library and thumbed through all their web design books and settled on
one I could handle with my background. I have programmed over the years in basic and unix shell
but only one or two programs here and there, never as a career. I am familiar with the concepts of how to
program a computer but not accomplished by any means. I was looking for a book that assumed I
knew what programming is and wanted to learn about HTML. I found the perfect book and it is Short Order HTML4
Molly E. Holzschlag, Hayden Books, 1999.
There's more but I'll have to finish this later.
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