T he preceding project had its beginnings with my dad, who shares an interest with me in the Civil War. We both thought that a report on our local history would be an eye-opening experience for the readers.

I decided that a website format would look more organized and be more interactive than a book. However, this project is not meant to be a showcase of my HTML abilities. The bulk of my work concentrated on gathering photographs and information.

Thanks to Kinko's and a few friends, my photos and stock photos were scanned for use in a website format. I used Graphic Workshop by Alchemy MindWorks to edit the pictures. The bars and text buttons were created with Microsoft Paintbrush.

To put in audio segments from the interview I recorded, I used Sound Machine, a Macintosh program that records sound directly from a boom box. The files were transferred to another computer, put onto a Zip drive disk, and then transferred to my home computer.

I used two methods of webpage editing to put the page together. I first put the text, graphics, and raw commands down using HTMLtool, a code-based program. Later, I cropped graphics and cleaned up what I couldn't see in the code with Netscape Composer, a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor.