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Christian,

 

Linda Reeves asked me to be the new webmaster and she introduced me to Eric

at the last potluck. We talked, he said it would be great and said he would

email me with the information and then disappeared. It's been weeks since

I've been able to even get going on any of it. Not that I feel I need to

prove anything, as this is not a job interview (I already showed my

portfolio to Linda Reeves), but I am a professional web developer (and my

husband is a web engineer) I just recently left Netscape.com front end

development to come back to Seattle with my husband. I've also done front

end with Amazon.com I'm VERY qualified and don't really need any training

but thanks. This whole experience has proven to be much more discouraging

and flakey then I ever thought possible. I am volunteering my services for

free and if someone doesn't fill me in on the information I need soon, I'm

afraid my patience is wearing thin. People are already writing me with

updates to the site from the and they are very happy to have

someone so qualified to take on the task and very anxious to see them go up,

but because you two are sitting on the information, these updates haven't

been able to be made which I frankly think is letting the whole group down.

I sent out a universal email to all the raw seattle members, informed them

of my difficulties in trying to get the information to start the updates and

asked them if they had any ideas. Nora Lenz gave me your email address and

told me to contact you which I did. And now somehow you can't because you

don't believe I am who I am or whatever. I guess I'll just put this project

on the burner until you are able to quantify your suspitions and somehow

find eric which I haven't been able to do. good luck and let me know how it

goes.

 

*Nichole Taylor

 

 

> " Christian Blackburn " <christian_blackburn

>persiannigella

>Re: raw web

>Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:17:15 -0700

>

>Hi Nichole,

>Welcome aboard. I don't believe I know who you are, but I want to say

>thank you nonetheless. Are you a professional and or student web

>developer/designer? You don't have to be, but it wouldn't hurt matters

>any.

>

>I will yield the password and other information once I verify with Eric and

>or about 5 others that this is in fact what he wants to do. I presume that

>there's a potluck on Sunday. OK I just checked the event calendar and

>there isn't anything on Sunday What a drag, I'm only visiting from the

>12th-16th and I missed the only event. Oh well that's what I get for being

>a big hurry and not checking my e-mail/using the net. I snoozed and lost

>.

>

>You will need some sort of professional web development tool that can edit

>.ASP pages. Front Page 2000 isn't very good at that. In fact it'll even

>screw up the code on some pages if you open it in Front Page. Fortunately

>it does warn you first and says " I promise to muck this page up if you try

>to edit it. Moo ha, ha.. " Front Page 2002, Visual Interdev 6, and

>Dreamweaver (any version), all seem to work fine with ASP encoded. I've

>also used Ultra-Edit, but it's only good for certain tasks. Our website

>uses Front Page extensions (which I'll probably yank, sooner than later,

>ASP, and JavaScript) so you'll want an editor that supports all or some of

>those technologies. Having an editor that doesn't support Front Page

>Extensions will probably work okay, but the big issue is whether or not

>it'll corrupt and or yell at you if you have the code present in you HTML

>files.

>

>

> You may also want Ulead PhotoImpact if you want to fool with our source

>artwork. PhotoImpact also allows you create killer web slideshows such as

>this here:

>http://www.rawsacramento.org/pictures/Events/2002-01-06/Slideshow/index.html.

> (I just noticed that this slideshow isn't really going to work for modem

>users, because the delay isn't long enough. I can dupe PhotoImpact for

>you, but Front Page 2002 uses " activation " and so I at least, do not know

>how to replicate it. I understand you can, but I don't have the number

>generator and usually that sort of thing takes just as long as working,

>earning the money, and buying it yourself. I think I need to buy a PCI

>modem to test modem-based user experience on my system. I had been doing

>that religiously even I though I had DSL in the past, but my Pentium IV

>doesn't have an ISA slot for my old modem. I could also make a copy of

>Visual InterDev if that's something you think you would use.

>

>You might just download the demos of the following programs for now:

>Ulead PhotoImpact 7 (www.Ulead.com/)

>Macromedia Dreamweaver (www.Macromedia.com)

>

>The following programs are freeware and will also be required for

>collaboration IP Notify and Tight VNC. IP Notify is a program I wrote to

>help my Tight VNC easier to use. You'll want to navigate to IP Notify.com

>and TightVNC.com. IP Notify won't make much sense until I give you the

>PWD, but you can install it now and it won't hurt anything. If you're

>using Windows 2000 I'd recommend SP3, because otherwise the embedded

>windows installer will act like retard with IP Notify's Windows Installer

>2.0 installation program. I suppose that means I should recommend Sp1 for

>Windows XP as well for the exact same reason. If you don't already know

>how to use VNC or what it is I recommend downloading and watching this

>video: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/videos.html. If you have a

>really slow connection you can read about it here:

>http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/index.html. Basically you and or I can

>view the screen and manipulate the keyboard and mouse of a remote computer.

> So I essence we could be on the phone and I could move your mouse and

>keyboard and show you how to do things from California, if necessary.

>

>If you don't have one already, I strongly urge you to get a broadband

>connection. It'll make your job significantly easier. Especially when it

>comes time to show you how to do something remotely.

>

>Okay in terms of editing the site, either he and or I will have to walk you

>through it. Preferably Eric, because he can show you in person. I will

>most likely not have time unless you and I get together Sunday or Monday.

>I take it your contact info is in the member directory. I'll call whomever

>is named Nichole.

>

>Alright I will verify your authority and then hook you up with the

>passwords. I just don't want to shell over access to some raw food hating

>weirdo by accident. We have only had a couple of problems in the past, so

>I will be avoiding the situation entirely in this particular case.

>

>

>

>Thanks,

>Christian Blackburn

>RawSacramento Web Developer

>

> > " nichole * " <persiannigella

> >Christian_Blackburn

> >raw web

> >Sun, 15 Sep 2002 03:45:20 -0700

> >

> >Hi Christian!

> >

> >Wondering if you might be able to help me gain access to the Raw Seattle

>website for event updating, etc. I'm supposed to be the new webmaster yet

>I haven't seen Eric since the potluck last month. He handed it over to me

>but hasn't contacted me. Must be very busy

> >

> >Sincerely,

> >

> >Nichole

> >

> >

>

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>

>

>Thanks,

>Christian Blackburn

>RawSacramento Web Developer

>HTTP://www.RawSacramento.org

>

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