Subj : your OLR home page
To   : William McBrine
From : Jim Hanoian
Date : Fri May 25 2001 02:49 pm

-=> William McBrine wrote to Jim Hanoian <=-

 WM> BTW, the title banner seems to be 404 now. (Everything else is
 WM> OK.) Oh, and the Blue Wave Product List (to which you have a
 WM> link) is dead. :-(

The banner?  You mean the picture?  Seems OK to me...

The Blue Wave Product list is my fault entirely.  It was turned
over to me for maintainance/posting and I got distracted and
never did get it right enough for me to post properly.

I should just put the HTML up on my own site and point to that,
at least until I get it in format and appearance that I like.  

The BW Products list details the programs alphabetically and indicates
the platform for each, for instance:

Name/Version           Filename(s)    Y Platform       Author(s)
====================== ============== = ============== =====================
Alice 2.4.4E           ALICE24F.CPT     Macintosh      Michael Keller
AmyBW 2.16             AmyBW216.lha     Amiga          Jos van Oijen
  
While this might make for ease of maintenance, I think it is not as
user-friendly as separating the list by platform.

Regardless, what sense is there in posting a separate list of 
just Blue Wave readers if my present OLMR list already includes 
that info?  

OK, so once we're beyond the reader portion of the BW list, what
is left is the door list.  So, to do this right, I'd have to create 
a BW door list page, and if that is up, I really should create a QWK 
door page, too.  But wait... if the readers listing is integrated (QWK 
and BW), shouldn't the door list be that way, too?  And then re-sort
the list so it groups by platform, then BBS software, then alphabetical,
and add filesizes, prices, download URLs, author emails, etc, etc ...
Oh, and before I forget, the BW products list also shows BBS software
that includes internal BW... so I'd have to root out all the ones that
include internal QWK, QWKE, SX, or other mail packet types?

And then we're back to the TXT/HTML issue discussed in the other 
message. 

So that's what happened to the BW products list.  Something that
seemed so easy got too complicated <sigh>.


.... Jim Hanoian, Augusta, Maine, USA
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