• Meeting
• Conversion
• Developing
• Testing
• Printing the Bibliography
• Navigational Structure

Sandra and I met around New Year 1997/1998 in Hamburg (Germany). Sandra told me about her work which had been published by The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, United States. This print version was meant for the public only as part of the archive in the Library and Research Center(LCR) of the museum. Sandra had her files stored away on a disk for the vague chance of later publication. You might imagine how struck I was... especially since the museum publication is the only one printed so far, and the electronic one, in her cupboard somewhere! Sandra had started putting some of it's pages on her homepage at the University of Heidelberg, but she had too many other things to do. I thought that might be some good practice at html for me.

The wordprocessed documents were first converted with a very helpful tool called The Ant Demo at first, a Word Macro which lets you watch as it puts in the tags on the screen. The program was developed by Jill Swift. (http://telacommunications.com/ant/, discontinued now). Later, I heard of the html-assistant distributed for free (I can still hardly believe it although I've used it myself) by Microsoft. I cannot provide a vaild Url to the source, because Microsoft has removed the page.

During initial developement the website was tested with the following browsers:

• Netscape Navigator 4.04.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
• NCSA Mosaic 3.0
• Opera 3.1 Evaluation Copy

One of the more brilliant things that can be found on the web is the Webpage Backward Compatibility Viewer. If you want to try it, it's at www.delorie.com/web. There is a long list of browser ID's that you can try your site with. But be sure to have enough time because it can take a while for the transmission, depending on the location of your site.

If your browser supports a "print all linked documents" feature you can print the sitemap with this feature turned on to get a printed copy. If you can't find this option anywhere, you will have to find another tool to do this task for you or go through the files yourself. Another way is to put pages in your page basket and use the print link on the page basket page itself.

The top part of each page contains the hierarchical structure. The starting page can be reached from any file, from where two different tables of contents can be accessed, the "ordinary" one and one with more detail.

The bottom or footer of each file contains links to the previous and the next page as if the bibliography were read sequentially. Unfortunately these links can't switch navigational level. 

Please don't hesitate to comment on the bibliography's navigability.
 

Tanya Powell, March 28 1998

Updated June 8 2005, March 5 2008

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