Re: Are You Converting Publications to Web Pages for a BIG Site?

[Ann Amsler <aamsler -at- BRAHMS -dot- UDEL -dot- EDU>]

At the University of Delaware, we're putting almost everything on line in
HTML.  In our experience, if you just "dump" something from the original
without breaking it up and including links, the document is useless.
Plus, this defeats the whole purpose of hypertext.  The process might go
more quickly, but why do it at all if the documents aren't useable?
Ann Amsler

On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, LaVonna Funkhouser wrote:

> >Is anyone else working for a company that is putting their entire catalog
> >of public and private documents into a Web-accessible format?  What sort
> >of a process have you developed to cope with the volume of the start-up
> >conversions?
> >See http://www.intel.com and it's related pages for the starting effort,
> >and remember that there is as much information inside the firewall as
> >outside.

> Our client wants several documents converted to HTML to be distributed
> on the company side of the firewall.  The project is just starting.
> The downside is that they want the info "dumped"--not properly
> chunked and linked.

> I would also like those who are converting manuals and other docs
> to HTML to contribute to the thread.

> LaVonna


>   LaVonna F. Funkhouser           Immediate Past President, OK Chapter
>   lffunkhouser -at- halnet -dot- com         Program Manager, 1995 Region 5 Conf.
>   technical writer                Society for Technical Communication
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