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Tuesday, November 15, 1994

an irregular gathering of web stuff by...
/ Alan Levine / Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction /

MCLI Web Server

Our new web server ( http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/) is almost ready. One of the larger tasks was checking for consistency in file name conventions since Unix differentiates in the upper/lower case where the Mac server does not.

If you are using NetScape Mosaic or one of the other newer browsers you may have been noticing the use of embedded graphics that are "transparent", i.e. that does not have a rectangular border (we have one with our logo on the MCLI server). This is a transparent GIF file. There are Unix programs to create these but I found a small Mac application that will turn any GIF file into transparent. You simply use the palette to select a color to be the "transparent" one and then re-save the file.

You can find this free application on the MCLI Public file server: 

 
    Into the Internet/
      1-Internet with the Mac/
        World Wide Web/
           HTML/
             Transparency_1.0.sit
Also, new on the server is an essay by Karen Schwalm, who would like any feedback. We are hoping to soon have the feedback done on the Web pages using FORMS. Look in: 
 
 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/karen/
A recent posting in the newsgroup "comp.infosystems.www.providers" had among a list of useful URLs a link to Mary Long's Big Wide World Connections: 
 
    http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/smc/ml/big-w-w-connections.html

Yet Another Internet Book?

I was at Bookstar last weekend and they now have almost an entire rack of books for the Internet. I mention this next one for a reason (see below). It is "The World Wide Web Unleashed" by John December and Niel Randall. John is the creater of many great Web pages, including the Internet Web Text, one of the best organized guides: 
 
     http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/text.html
Information on ordering the book is available at: 
 
     http://www.rpi.edu/~decemj/works/wwwu.html
Okay, the reason for the plug is that John has included a screen shot and description of the MCLI server!

Sites of Intrigue

WWW News 11-15-94
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)
Maricopa County Community College District

The Internet Connection (1993-2006) at MCLI was Alan Levine --}
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