This page is being developed as a project for:
English 391C: Advanced Software for Professional Writers
using Arachnophilia.
(The black background is just because it makes the little dots show up better.)

The purpose of this section of the site is to illustrate and discuss some technical issues in web design, such as scripts, security, styles, and new developments in general. At this stage, there isn't much to show, but I hope to be developing some more content here soon.

This link to a secure page is an example of one of the things I would like to discuss more fully. People could then look to such a discussion as a resource for protecting their own pages. This is native unix password protection, using no javascript. There's really nothing there to protect, by the way. To access the page, use the username "guest" and the password "access."

Some of the other things happening on this site include the browser and version detection and redirection on the front page. The "Welcome to my Web" page contains some javascript and css positioning that don't work on old browsers, so by hiding that page behind the "front door" represented by my default oitunix URL, people surfing with older browsers, or who have javascript turned off, just go to a page that doesn't use that stuff instead of seeing a really terrible version of the java-enabled page. It looks bad enough as it is.