My Web, Your Web by -earthman-  | producer of  'e a r t h m a n v4.0' and  '-interpret-' here's something you may not know: the web is yours. it's yours, mine, his, hers and everyone's, and that is the way it should be. allow me to explain myself. the web is one medium, unique as far as I know, where any joe or jane can set up camp and produce their own little slice of whatever. and with places like tripod and geocities almost forcing you to claim webspace, with aol cds practically turning up in cereal boxes, with the cost of computers and communications plummeting on a daily basis, it's nearly compulsory to have a website nowadays. a greetings card MUST have an email address, and an http:// is becoming de rigeur too. however, the web has a tendency to be elitist. if you read the criteria and guidelines at most "best of the cool" type sites, you'll find that there are a number of things you "shouldn't do", and this I disagree with. hey, yeah, if you want to get your site listed in "cool" directories and have sky-high hit-rates, then you're gonna have to pull something special out of the bag, and do away with the page that says "...and here's another picture of Fido when he was a puppy..." BUT - and here's my point - you may wake up one day and decide that the world cannot continue in it's current form without thirty 1024x768 gifs of your family and friends at auntie mabel's wedding. and who's to tell you otherwise? do it. get it up there. there's no right and no wrong and no good and no bad. (well ok, there is bad, but we won't go into that here...) if you want to publish one page of pure text about having your teeth pulled, or a complete plan for world domination, or a collaborative website, or even a "best of the cool" site, you go right ahead. it's your web, after all. (c) 1999 clive murray 25/08/99