Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 09:07:03 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, grog@lemis.de, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I write this SGML stuff? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960609085434.303W-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199606090532.FAA01433@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov>
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On Sat, 8 Jun 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > So THAT'S your secret for devoting SO much time to FreeBSD. Make it > part of your classwork! I *knew* I shouldn't have graduated ... :-( Well, I'm doing my best to pick FreeBSD projects. This first summer session my topic of choice is issues in long term production web site management. A lot of the focus on the Web is snazzy new designs, some of which are truly excellent, but that excellent design doesn't always get carried through down to the behind the sceens implementation. My working title for the project is "Webmasters are users too". I'd really like to get a good behind the scenes look at places like CNN or IBM and see how they do it. I've spent many hours in bookstores reading the bazillion "webmaster" books and have yet to find one whose methods work well when scaled much beyond a site with more than a dozen pages and a handful of cgi scripts. The explicit beneficiary for this project is the Monroe County Public Library who has 150+ pages and maintenence has pretty much ground to a halt because of poor internal design (it works very well from the users point of view). I took a four year break in the "real" world, then decided being a professional student wouldn't be too bad. Now I'm in a (well funded) PhD program (information science), so I should be at a good long time. They don't call it Gradual School for nothing! -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================
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