Front page 30 day trial on several computer mags this month. V good.
I use Netscape communicator, but most of my sites are text based
http://www.medical-legal.co.uk/patient_info/ for instance
Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton,
SHEFFIELD
GP Tutor Informatics - N Trent
Member of the BHIA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mike Carey
> Sent: 07 December 1998 20:58
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Best Web Editor
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:50:08 -0000, you wrote:
>
> >As the winter nights progress I am thinking of investing in a Web Editor.
> >The two that have attracted my attention are Hotmetal Pro 5.0 and Adobe
> >Pagemill 3.0. Frontpage seems to be getting quite expensive and if I can
> >help to break their monopoly without hurting myself then I would like to do
> >my bit.
> >
> >If you were buying an editor again which one would you pick?
>
> Hold steady, Douglas, there are many very acceptable
> shareware/freeware/careware web editors.
>
> I'm using Arachnophilia (http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/) at
> the moment which is nice-ish. It's careware! See the concept creators
> explanation of careware. [1].
>
> Mike
> --
> Mike Carey, GP Systems Marketing Manager
> Compudata Research Ltd
>
> [1] But you are not off the hook yet. The "Payment" for a CareWare
> program is not monetary. You have to make a different kind of payment
> altogether. Let me explain.
>
> Most Americans are totally dissatisfied with everything. It is too
> hot, too cold, too wet, too dry. If we have a free day, we are unhappy
> because we don't have two free days. And just about the time we figure
> out that we are supposed to appreciate the world as it is, we fall
> over and die.
>
> So here's your payment for Arachnophilia:
>
> Imagine you have only two hours to live:
>
>
>
> · Is there something important you have to say to someone,
> something you might regret not having said? If you were to die, would
> that person always wonder what you really thought or felt?
> · Is there a pretty spot you have always wanted to visit, sit
> under a tree, whatever?
> · Have you ever experienced the shock of noticing how beautiful
> ordinary things are, once it dawns on you that you might not be around
> very long?
>
> If you are an old person (like me):
>
>
> · Do you speak to young people in a way that they will be
> encouraged to grow up and expect to be happy and productive?
> · When you correct a young person, do you ask yourself "Is this
> mostly for my benefit, or mostly for his?"
>
> If you are a young person:
>
> · Do you try to be patient with old people, even though most of
> us are complete morons?
> · Do you try to live in the world as though you belonged here,
> as though what you do matters to everyone, to the world itself, to
> you?
> · Do you appreciate the small, free beauties of life, and not
> expect to buy anything very important?
>
> Look at this list. If you already belong to this list, if this list
> already reflects your behavior and values, then you already own your
> copy of Arachnophilia. In a sense, you owned it before it was written.
>
> If you don't feel a kinship with the statements in the list, then
> please do one or more of the things listed there. Maybe change how you
> talk to a young person, or someone whose life would be improved if you
> related to him or her differently. Or just allow a sense of wonder to
> re-enter your life, a sense that nothing is deserved and everything
> contains hidden beauty. And that sometimes beauty is not so much
> hidden as unobserved.
>
> I would like it if you lived your entire life as though each day was
> your last, as though every small action mattered, in the way that it
> does when you've run out of time. But I am a realist -- if you do that
> for just one day, one day of saying the important things, of
> performing the kindnesses that naturally occur to us when each day
> might be our last, then you will have paid me for Arachnophilia.
>
> I don't ask this because there is some definition of good behavior,
> some correct religious or philosophical viewpoint. I ask it precisely
> because there isn't such a viewpoint. We are all free agents, we get
> to choose. In fact, we must choose -- it's dangerous to let others
> choose for us. And no one gets to tell anyone else how to behave --
> unless, of course, one is "selling" software using the CareWare
> system.
>
> Paul Lutus, Ashland, Oregon
>
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