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- PageBuddy™
- webmasters ultimate webcontent managing tool
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- (whew, doesn't this sound professional ?)
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- Version 1.0
- ©1999 by HabakukSoft™ (R.Vögtli), all rights reserved worldwide
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- How does it work ?
- The user points his browser to the page he wants to modify, delete or replace. PageBuddy gets hold of the window
- title and url, and presents the surfer (through a common interface) a simple way to tell the webmaster what
- exactly he want's to be done. The data gathered throughout the process is presented for verification, and then
- sent by eMail to the webmaster. PageBuddy relies on AppleScript™ and certain circumstances described under
- the "requirements" section.
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- What's the purpose for PageBuddy™ ?
- PageBuddy assists the user in filing a webpage modification request to the webmaster. The use of PageBuddy
- ensures that all the relevant information is sent at once, so the responsible webmaster doesn't need so much
- Prozac when trying to decipher modification request...
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- Sit back, relax and imagine... you have finalized your last homepage project, ftp'd the whole site to the web
- server, flushed the cache and re-checked everything in at least twelve browser flavours. Everything looks
- fine. Feels good, eh ? Now what happens two weeks later ? You'll be buried with phone calls, emails, snail mail,
- stickies etc... please change the last two numbers on my page 7 to 23, thanks. Huh ? What ? Which site,
- page, line ? Hi - theres a dead link, the one that's blue you know. Which page ? Oh, the one with the nice
- picture there ! Good evening, could you replace the old page, ohnowindo.html, with the document on the server ?
- Which document ? Well, it's somewhere there under, ah, ehm, sorry have to look myself first...
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- Enough, you have yourself hundreds of this stories ready, don't you ? Now PageBuddy will clean up (some of)
- this weirdness. At least, that was my intention when I begann developping PageBuddy. It's purpose is to make
- my life as a webmaster of a short dozen sites a bit easier. It let's all Mac folks use a browser to watch "their"
- homepages and send me standardized modification requests.
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- Who may benefit from the use of PageBuddy ?
- Well, me ! That's why i did it, you remember ! I don't know how well PageBuddy could fit the desires of other
- webmasters, since the 1.0 version will be developped only for my own, special purposes. But with further
- developpement, if i do so [1], PageBuddy will be universalized, so it should be a helper application to many
- other poor ol' webhamsters ;-)
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- [1] : i would say, the existence of a readme file is a good sign that there may be further developpment...
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- Is it worth the money ?
- Yes. The version 1.0 is free. That's a good price for so sparely strayed bugs. It's free because i would have
- done it anyway (I'm a bit sulfuric, for the insiders). Anyone who registers the free version will be
- redirected to an upgrade link with the latest bugfixes to version 1.0.
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- Later releases may be based on the shareware idea. Presumably in the range of $5-10 per licence, depending on
- how much time I invest in developping user requested features that i personally don't care about. I will never
- charge for developpment made for my own purposes. This should be a helper app, not a M$ software.
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- How to order Version 1.0 ?
- Visit my homepage and fill in the order form, send me an email or come visit me in Bern, Switzerland.
- http://www.g-point.com/pagebuddy/
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- Requirements
- It's developped on a G3/266/320MB/8GB, System 8.5(f7) and Andrew Barry's RealBasic (R2D27).
- In version 1.0 it works only with Netscape and requires AppleScript to be installed . Should
- run on System 7.5 and up. Maybe Sys8.0/8.1 won't display the windows properly (but it's not
- clear why and when). I will add info as i gather from "beta" tests and user reports.
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- What's planned for future versions ?
- - improved mail interface
- - improved PageEditor
- - improved Save/Open File routines
- - better interface design
- - more options (but which ?)
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- How to influence PageBuddy's developpment ?
- Easy - register any version of PageBuddy, and i lend you an ear... as i said, this is no commercial
- developpement. I will think about your requests and talk back to you to communicate what i think
- is possible (read : meets my skills and time). If you have fun, buy RealBasic and share some
- hot code with me. We could initiate a open code project... for the benefit of all webmasters and
- against monopoly software that includes fancy features but meets not the needs of the users.
- (I'm serious about the open code project, and i'm NOT talking about GoLive :-)
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- How to influence Bill Gates ?
- Don't use Microsloth products. (Hence don't ever create readme files in word ! Else you will be
- excluded from PageBuddy for the length of your life !)
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- How to bore your readers ?
- Well, i think i've done a good job. Yes.
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- How to end ?
- Choose "File>Close" or "File>Quit", shut down the screen, turn your seat 180°, put a bag (with
- safety air holes! ) over the head. Stop reading. Send me $10 for exlcusive membership (a two
- year silence, no beep from me) .
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- "In a world withouth fences and walls, who need Gates and Windows ?"
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- (...digital graffity...)
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