Beth Katz's Comcast Pages

Link to My Comcast Home Page

Link to My School Home Page

I've tried creating pages here with multiple tools. Those examples are not here within these pages. But they are off my real home page.

So far, I've done my handcrafted pages, Comcast's tool, iWeb, and Kompozer.

I've been playing with my Comcast pages for a while now. Someone thought I knew what I was talking about and made me a Personal Web Page Expert. I suppose I'm one of the few regulars here who can get around the Comcast PWP tools. That's mostly because I consider it a challenge to work within the confines of each tool.

So I have my hand-built pages at the front being normal. There are links to the pages built with Comcast's tools. There are also links to two sets of pages built with iWeb. One is supposed to be somewhat like my normal pages. The other is a musical instrument page my kids helped build.

I hope to get around to trying to use Kompozer to build some pages. I have it downloaded. I've even launched it. But other activities get in the way.

Life is what happens while you're making other plans (John Lennon). 

Someone asked whether we can include a photo in a blog post.

I think we can. I'll try Mace Whenua. But it didn't show up until I gave it a description.

Someone in the PWP forum was having trouble creating a page containing images. So I created an example. Rather than connecting pages with links, the new page is just listed in the toolbar. I've also created an example of playing an mp3 file on a page.

I find it odd that people ask a question in the forum and then wander off. They never seem to see the answer or acknowledge its existence. 

I'm doing this so I can learn a bit about how annoying an interface can be when it's 'designed' to be easy. I question whether this interface was designed as opposed to thrown together. But it's annoying that people don't even look at answers. 

I'm experimenting with using the PWP tools from Comcast and pages I created from scratch. Comcast states that using their tools will make pages made with other tools inaccessible. But if you make sure you have an index.html file in your home directory, the web server will make that your home page. There are other acceptable home page names, but we know that one works.

If you use the PWP tools, your existing index.html file will be moved. But you can move it back to being index.html again. You may need to refresh your browser or clear the cache. But it will reappear.

It sort of makes sense given that the pages built with the PWP tools are hidden. I can get to those pages (and this blog) through http://home.comcast.net/~bethkatz/site

Comcast is in the middle of upgrading its personal web pages feature. However, Comcast's page-building tools don't work well with pages built by hand or using other tools. If you use the Comcast tools, you can't edit your pages built with some other tool. I've been hesitant to do anything that might make my hand-crafted pages unavailable. I managed to hand-edit this part of my pages in October 2007 after using Comcast's tools. But that capability disappeared shortly after I "fixed" my pages.

I don't think I can manage to do a blog very frequently. For now, consider this a test of what the capability is. Even trying it out destroyed the direct connection to my intended index.html page. Oh well.