October is the thirtieth anniversary of the first email to
be sent.
Samuel B. Morse's first telegram, delivered on May 24, 1844:
"What hath God wrought!"
Alexander Graham Bell's telephone call to his assistant on
March 10, 1876:
"Mr. Watson, come here; I want you."
Ray Tomlinson's first e-mail message, October 1971, was most
likely:
"...QWERTYIOP or something similar."
Electronic message programs, some dating from the early
1960s, only worked
locally; users could create a text file and deliver it to a
designated file
named a "mail box". Tomlinson has written, "Its only special
property was . . .
[users] could write more material onto the end of the
mailbox, but they couldn't
read or overwrite what was already there."
The @ symbol was chosen to distinguish between messages
addressed to mailboxes
in the local machine and messages that were headed out onto
the network.
"The @ sign seemed to make sense. I used the @ sign to
indicate that the user
was 'at' some other host rather than being local." said
Tomlinson.
Just another day's work for Ray Tomlinson.
And we didn't know that this new medium would bring us
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* FP2000: Insert hyperlink in FP 2k, without typing
or copy and paste
Using FrontPage 2002 and Internet Explorer (IE) to create
new hyperlinks
to other pages outside your web without having to type in
the URL (risking
a typo), or copy and paste methods is simple:
* In FrontPage, highlight the image or text you want to
hyperlink and press
Ctrl + K
* Using the hyperlink dialog box to open IE by pressing the
icon next to the
URL box with a world & magnifying glass on it - browse to
the page you want
to create the hyperlink to
* Click back to FrontPage and you will see that the
hyperlink address has been
populated in the hypelink dialog box for you. Set the target
for your link
if you want one set and click the OK button
* FP 2002: Insert hyperlink in FP 2k2, without typing
or copy and paste
Using FrontPage 2002 and Internet Explorer (IE) to create
new hyperlinks
to other pages outside your web without having to type in
the URL (risking
a typo), or copy and paste methods is even simpler then in
FP2000:
* In FrontPage, highlight the image or text you want to
hyperlink and press
Ctrl + K
* Open IE and navigate to the page you want to link to
* Highlight the address in the address bar of your browser
window
* Click back to FrontPage and you will see that the
hyperlink address has been
populated in the hypelink dialog box for you. Set the target
for your link
if you want one set and click the OK button
It is easy to understand meta tags and searchengines - together and
separately.
We will start with general concepts and theory and individual searchengine
peculiarities will be addressed at the end. A guide is included for writing
meta tags. Construction of meta tags is simple html - made pain-free by
FrontPage.
In this fast evolving field, the information on searchengines will likely be
outmoded
by the time you read it. :) Once you understand the theory, this will be no
surprise
to you - in fact, it will make the Game more fun!!
There are only three characters in the allegory below - Joe User, Sarah
Seller,
and Botman.
Let’s start with searchengines:
Programs written to find and catalog webpages, searchengines are often
referred to
as bots or robots. Think of a scavenger hunt.
Many excellent programmers are working constantly to refine their bot’s
search capabilities
and responses. Fame and riches await the best programmers, and Botman
intends to be the
best of them all. Botman was one of the first to eliminate “the”, “and”, and
“you” from
his programs. With his bot ignoring words that did not aid the search, it
was much faster
at tabulating results - for a very short time. Other programmers copied his
program and
began to shorten his lead in this race. Botman worked constantly to stay
ahead.
Once, if Joe User wanted a stick of gum., he would key in “gum”. In other
words, “gum”
would be his “keyword”. The bot would scan webpages for the word “gum”.
Pages that had
been scanned before may have been precataloged (rightly or wrongly) under
the keyword “gum”.
Newer webpages might be scanned or may be skipped as not yet classified -
different programs
(different searchengines) handle this differently. Results are prioritized
according to the
program’s criteria and a list of webpages would be presented to Mr. User in
the order that
the searchengine has determined - with the most likely matches first and the
least likely
matches last.
Sarah Seller sells gum and has designed an attractive, fast loading webpage
with photos
showing her creative packaging ensuring freshness. Her gum comes in forty
flavors and
forty colors. Her webpage extolls the flavors, creating a mouthwatering
menu. She has no
meta tags on her website and the word “gum” is in her text twice.
On the list of webpages that Mr. User receives:
* 1 thru 6 are related to dentistry
* 7 is a support group for gum disease
* 8, 9, & 12 are about gummy bears candy
* 10 is for nicotine gum
* 11 is a department store in Russia
* 13 is a rock band
* and the next page - while it does include 2 bubble gum sites - is more
dentists
At this point, Mr. User has another 32 pages of results to peruse, but,
being typical, he
goes back to the search engine and keys in another word or two instead.
If he keys “stick of gum” he is afraid he will get a list of lumberyards.
(It wouldn’t
help Ms. Seller anyway, nowhere in her text does she have the word “stick”
although she
does use the word “pack” once.)
Mr User decides on “chewing gum”. Sure, he gets the history of chewing gum,
chewing gum
laws in third world countries and dental effects of chewing gum - but the
other seventeen
references in the top twenty are actually chewing gum vendors. They do
not include Ms. Seller.
The word “chewing” was not in her text.
Unfortunately, the searchengines have now had time to scan Ms.Seller’s
website. Her beautiful
page will certainly be on Mr. User’s list if he ever looks for “flavor”.
Ms. Seller decides that she can reword her text slightly in order to include
more possible keywords
in her text. (Good Move, Sarah!!) She also hears about Meta Tags.
Fortunately she has FrontPage
- she finishes her task in no time.
For a freebie "Recommend This Site" script to add to
your
website: csRecommend™ can be found at http://www.cgiscript.net/scripts.htm#csRecommend
This script lets visitors recommend your site to their
friends.
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/
0-10105-100-6313778.html?tag=st.dl.10001
new.10105-100-6313778. Tiny Personal Firewall (TPF) is a
powerful utility designed to protect home cable and DSL
connections providing multi-layer security protection.
Caveats:
There is a charge for Business use ($39.95) and it will not
work on
a computer using WinRoute or Microsoft Internet Connection
Sharing. Also check our Archives for NetWatchman posting.
Remove Office specific code from your Microsoft Word
documents:
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2000/htmlfilter.aspx
or
use this filter to remove the office code when you copy
and paste directly from Microsoft Word to FrontPage:
http://office.microsoft.com/Assistance/2000/oRemoveMarkup.aspx
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