I participate in an online community, Brainstorms. Some one was asking about giving browser base presentations. I mentioned I used to do such and had templates. So, someone asked me for more info.... well, I got carried away on my response which is given below (click on MORE....).
Howard,
Below are two representative pages from the earliest days I was doing this. In those days two things are worth noting:
1) I had used outlining software since about 1985-86 (PC-outline & ThinkTank. Around 92-94 I was using MORE the grandchild of ThinkTank. I was used to developing outlines with included texts that could shown as presentations. More or less what we take for granted now with PowerPoint was reel cool then.
2) I did a lot of presentations in those days (have a look) and always have tried to walk the talk. So, I figure out how to put my presentations online with early html. My editor was BBEdit -- using a text editor like that made it easy for me to make two text files (1) front page and (2) information page -- oh, yes and (3) end page with my email and contact information.
Now I use TextPad which has a feature "clip library" that comes loaded with HMTL Tags and other goodies. One of the HTML Tags is "blank page" I've added that to the end as example of blank slate. I also use TextPad for most of my text editing. In fact, I'm typing this right now in TextPad and will copy and paste it into Caucus when I'm finished. So, I'm still using the tools from 80's and 90's in the 21rst century.... wow, had not thought about that before. heh.
So, Here's example of front page which acts as an anchor or index for the talk while mapping out the agenda with "relative links" to the other pages. The HTML listed below is probably not legal these days, but still seems to work. This talk can be found at http://ariel.adgrp.com/~ghb/talks/941207_REL/TOC.html
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<TITLE>REL-TTF</TITLE>
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<H2>Regional Educationl Labs
<br>Technology Transfer Group</H2>
December 7-8 1994
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<H1>Overview and Contrast of Information Technologies</H1>
<ul>
<li><H2><A HREF="culture.html">Culture</A></H2>
<li><h2><A HREF="access.html">Access</A></h2>
<li><h2><A HREF="hardware.html">Hardware</A></h2>
<li><h2><A HREF="nidr.html">NIDR Tools</A></h2>
<li><h2><A HREF="comments.html">Closing Comments</A></h2>
</ul>
<p>
<A HREF="culture.html">NEXT</A>
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<ADDRESS>Last Updated 941205
<A HREF="http://biblio.boulder.lib.co.us:8001/ghb">George Brett</A> george.brett@ cnidr.org
</ADDRESS>
copyright 1994 ghb@biblio.boulder.lib.co.us
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<TITLE>Cultural Issues</TITLE>
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<H3>Culture -- multiple factors</H3>
<H2>Shift from status quo into something <U>NEW</U></H2>
<UL>
<LI><B>Technologies</B>
<UL>
<LI><B>from</B> expensive scarce resources
<LI><B>to</B> ubiquitous commodity items
<li><U>NOTE:</U> Scale keeps shifting . . . the old gets cheaper
</UL>
<li><B>Policies</B>
<ul>
<li>Must reflect global nature of the Internet
<li>Must protect public information resources
<li> . . . . need to be<U><B> updated</B></U> and <U><B>changed</B></U>
</ul>
<li><B>Users</B>
<ul>
<li>resistant to change
<li>require education, training, and <B>on-going support</B>
</ul>
</ul>
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<A HREF="access.html">NEXT</A> -- <A HREF="agnic1.html">BACK</A>
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</body>
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<ADDRESS>Last Updated 941205
<A HREF="http://biblio.boulder.lib.co.us:8001/ghb">George Brett</A> george.brett@ cnidr.org
</ADDRESS>
copyright 1994 ghb@biblio.boulder.lib.co.us
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