Posted by Tony Cooper on 10/09/05 07:41

On 8 Oct 2005 21:18:22 -0700, Stan McCann <me@stanmccann.us> wrote:

>>>> Be sure and hook up with a good Editor. The word on your web site
>>>> - siteseeing - may describe looking at sites on the web, but it's
>>>> a day of "sightseeing" when you go around to see the sights. You
>>>> also need some help with punctuation.
>>>
>>>I asked about a book, not a site critique. And a bad one at that;
>>>if you wish to criticize, at least say what you are criticizing.
>>
>> You also brought up writing a book. That leads me to wonder if you
>> can write.
>>
>> What is not clear about "sightseeing" instead of "siteseeing"? The
>> punctuation errors are in sentences containing parenthetical clauses
>> or what should be parenthetical clauses.
>
>Nothing unclear about the error at all. But you said nothing about
>where the error is. I have two links in my sig which also lead to
>numerous other pages I have worked on or written myself. What page?
>Where on the page?

I don't think it's appropriate in an html newsgroup to provide a
full-blown blue pencil critique of the written text. The references
to the errors should be enough to motivate you to find them and
correct them if you are interested. If you're not interested in
finding and correcting them, that's fine, too.

The only links I followed are the link you use in your sig line and
one hyperlink to one set of images to see how you chose to present
images. The page linked in your sig line is a simple page - except
for the number of hyperlinks - and it shouldn't be difficult for you
to read it as others do.

>Maybe you are like me that reads more than posts. I did not/do not
>recognize your name as one of the regulars that I have become familiar
>with and value their posts.

I'm a regular in another newsgroup - oddly enough, on the subject of
English usage - and only strolled into alt.html to ask a question. I
muddle along in 4.01 and use it to put up images of the family so I
can send links to the other family members from Illinois to Russia to
Denmark.

Fair's fair, so my latest site is
http://home.earthlink.net/~tony_cooper213/bluehome.html and you are
welcome to criticize my dodgy html. I used Adobe Photoshop7's Picture
Gallery for the additional pictures, but I'm not happy with this
format. It is quick and easy to do, though. Your Album format does
the job better, but the reference to needing to know perl script
scared me off.

I probably won't hang around alt.html very long since the regulars
here sneer at 4.01 and seem to get off on pointing and shouting at
deprecated tags. They don't seem to understand that some of us are
quite happy to use the simplest solution and don't see the need to
learn to operate a 20 ton crane to lift a matchbox.

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