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The original premise of Web Workshop was that I didn't know anything about web authoring, but would find out then pass my knowledge on to the readers. I was happy to admit that I didn't have a clue about a particular topic (such as browser frames) at the start of the month, but had now checked it out and found it much easier than the Web cognoscenti would have us believe. This approach went down exceptionally well, and the series received one of PC Plus magazine's biggest-ever reader responses.
Web Workshop evolved to become a multimedia package; the pages in the magazine were accompanied by HTML pages on PC Plus's cover-mounted CD-ROM, giving more details and working examples of that month's topics. In most later episodes the CD-ROM also contained ScreenCam movies, in which I'd talk through particular authoring techniques. Topics covered in the series' 37 episodes included basic authoring tools, frames, tables, a four-part 'back to basics' HTML primer, a six-part IE4 Dynamic HTML series (plus two more on IE5 enhancements), and a Netscape/IE-compatible 'art gallery' application. Here's a sample of Web Workshop:
Web Workshop was a self-commissioned series; I devised the original idea and all the later developments (except for the name-change, which the PC Plus editors wisely imposed!). © Paul Stephens 1999. All rights reserved.
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in the mists of time I did tutorial series on topics such as dBase
programming and getting the best from DOS. For the past three years,
however, I've been concentrating on web page authoring, in a PC Plus series
initially called 'Publish and Be..' and later renamed Web
Workshop.
