November 16, 1998 – Newsletter #2

November 16, 1998 – Newsletter #2

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Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com.

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HELLO WEEKEND SILICON WARRIORS…

This is Goodies To Go Newsletter number two. We’re
officially “weekly”. Thanks to all of you who read and
responded to the first newsletter. The e-mail barrage was
fun to read through. I kept a lot of them to add to this and
future newsletters.

Let’s get started . . .

I wrote a book! It’s called “HTML Goodies” and it’s
available now, just in time for holiday giving and getting.
It should be available in your local bookstore later this
week. Right now though, you can order a copy from
Barnes and Nobles online. To do so, head to the HTML
Goodies home page (https://www.htmlgoodies.com) and click on
the book cover image. I’d give you the full URL here, but
it is so long, there wouldn’t be room for much else.

If you’re wondering what’s in the book, it’s a more
condensed version of the Goodies web site. Entire tutorials
were revised and fully rewritten. There’s some new stuff for
applets, JavaScripts, chatrooms, and the Primers. Plus
there’s a full history of the Goodies site!

Where you’re really going to find some interesting reading
is in the listener comments. All through the book are
hundreds of e-mail questions from HTML Goodes readers. I
keep just about everything, and here’s where it all poured
out.

In addition – there’s an entirely new section of Goodies
on-line devoted right to the book. At the end of every book
tutorial is a link to a special page on the Goodies site
just for the book readers.

I hope you’ll like it. I had a heck of a time editing it
over the past summer. You see, I thought it was going to be
simple. I thought I would simply print out the pages and –
ta da – I’d have a book. No way. The first problem was that
all through the tutorials I write “click here”. Well, this
is a book. There is no “here”. All that had to be changed.
Then my editor read it and made about a million comments.
Then the tech editor read it and made a million more.
Finally a third editor, a content editor, read it and he
made about a million comments. Three million comments later
— I’ve got a book. A good book. Any mistakes had to get
through four people. It really made for a great piece of
work.

So this holiday season…when you think of those you love…
give the gift of Hypertext Mark Up Language. Give Goodies.
That would really make a good TV commercial, huh? All you’d
need to do is add a little music and you got yourself a
jingle, brother!

That’s It For This Week . . .

Thanks for reading. I think I’m going to like this weekly
letter stuff…

Joe Burns, Ph.D.

“And Remember: The largest city in the United States with
only one syllable in its name is Flint, Michigan. (I was
born in Flint!! Woohoo! Go Flint!)”