Re: TIB: New Web Page & New RandSeed!

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Subject: Re: TIB: New Web Page & New RandSeed!
From: "House" <thouse@tk7.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 15:32:30 -0500
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I've been reading through my Microsoft Developer's Network that came with
Visual Studio.  I pretty much found out that HTML alone can do just about
everything and that I can use other programs like VBScript, Java, and even
Visual C++ to "spice it up" so to speak.  The thing is I have FrontPage
_Express_, which came with Windows 98 and it includes absolutely no help and
very little to get you started, aside from a Wizard that creates a typical,
ho-hum page.  I think I'll just stick with straight HTML for now and work on
that VBScript stuff later.  I like the method that ticalc and other sites
use where there is always that bar on the side of the screen to jump to
where you need to go.  That's a frame, right?  some sites will even keep a
header on the top of the page.  But in any event, when I get the site up
(hopefully by the end of the week, no matter how bad it is) I will try to
get some TI-related stuff up along with some of my other interests.  In the
meantime, I'm gonna try and figure out imagemaps and some other snazzy
stuff.

And since we're on the random subject, I just had an apiphany.  on the 92+,
use GetConfg() to store configurations into a List, then use "Free RAM" or
"Free Archive" as the RandSeed input.  This may be the most random you could
get?  maybe?
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Davis <adavis@baladyne.com>
To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org <ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: TIB: New Web Page

>
>Might I give a suggestion?  Avoid frames like the plague.  They have
>some useful properties, and in very rare circumstances work better than
>alternate methods, but for the most part are too slow and klunky to be
>useful.  Use tables.  They load faster, and allow more control over how
>your page looks.
>
>But it's your page.
>
>Anyway, I use both frontpage and netscape composer.  Frontpage is good
>where the web server supports frontpage extensions.  Composer is very
>nice for quick-n-easy changes and editing.
>
>-Adam
>
>House wrote:
>>
>> Hello again, everybody.

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