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Notes
PERSEVERE: This is the most vital point, and the hardest to follow. Sometimes we give up when the destination is just round the corner. As F. Scott Fitzgerald has said, "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." Almost all successful people know how to persevere, and how to strive persistently. This takes us back to the point where I said you have to be desperate. Once you are desperate, you don't give up easily.
Finally, I found the practical application for my web-directories: do you see the crying mask above? This is the web-event production of Hamlet. We are getting closer to the new phenomena of directing on the web!
Sister-pages: Notes at WEB Directory with Sellassie WWW.
Use the right click and see how I use "txt" files.
First, the uniformity! Some functions you have on each page; in order not write it on each page, you could write it on one "txt" page, which will be inserted, as long as this mini page is in the same directory.
Second, the changes. You don't have to do it on every page, on ONE page only!
Originally, the Tripod served for all purposes; that's why you can find here everything -- writing, theatre, and film. Later the other websites grew and now I use this host for FILM only.
There is another "old" site -- Ant Theatre & Film, where you can find film files.
So, what is so special about the "film" site, regarding web-building?
Think ahead. In 2002 the webcating will be everywhere! Do you see the difference between web-PUBLISHING and web-BROADCASTING?
June 2002. Serious changes in thinking about web: organizing pages, according to the webdrama (new term) principles. To see pages like scenes in several plots (chapters as DVD technology call it; it will move on web soon). Dramatic narratives v. epic (Aristotle). Characters? I already began to introduce them (Stanislavsky,
Meyerhold, myself). Place the plot (story = action) on the top. The idea must be expressed through the story, not outside. Dramatic composition of each page with climax and resolution!
Not only the thought, but the plots and characters must link pages together. Some characters (narrators) are already migrating between directories (acting, directing, script analysis). Dialogues in style of Plato? Play and Game ideas.
Will it give more power to reader/viewer? The Global Theatre of One Spectator... (Must think it through!) Broadcasting v. publishing. Yes, the virtual theatre again!
Genres?
2003: new *
Summary
Notes on my generations of webpages (2004 is ".04")
What does creative writing mean? Let us see first what "creative" means.
My dictionary says, "Creative is something characterized by originality and expressiveness." That was my computer dictionary. My Encarta dictionary defines "creative" as "Using or showing use of the imagination to create new ideas or things."
And this is what Ernest Hemingway had to say about creativity:
"From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?"
Creative writing simply means telling something ordinary in an extra-ordinary manner and I believe every one of us has a stream of creativity flowing inside. If we remove the obstacles, if we thwart away the surrounding distractions, we can all mould our imagination in whatever manner we want to.
2005: the content is the king, not the webmaster. Webmaster is a servant, a slave, a mule.
This is a small directory, which I use for myself as a webmaster. If you read web.vtheatre.net, you understand that a webmaster is simply aq skill, like reading and writing. You need to learn it, to perfect it to express yourself through this new media. You need to experiment with this new language. Scroll down and see the giant table I made (for nothing); looks good, but not usuable, not much. Hell, you have to make your mistakes. The secret is to make them fast and learn fast.
The directory is small, because I have no time for more important pages, yes, the content pages, the subject pages, the real writing.
Summer 2005: what are my seven years as a webmaster about?
Film Web
Self-study? Look back!
A Case-Study
Lessons for webmasters? Lessons for me!
Each website is unique and the lessons are learned by building and maintaining them are different.
The market is different and the product, of course.
Although the (cyber)students use both Film and Theatre sites, they come there for different reasons.
Film does have a bigger appeal than Theatre and the numbers prove it (?)...
Film have the tendency for the visual, Theatre is still more text-oriented...
Only after two years of webbing I understood that I have to have the apparatus for my content pages, if I want the readers to see how they can use the site. Not only the subdirectories are must, but the uniformity of them: the intro and notes page, links, popup new mini-windows and the PS page with the summary.
I began to create separate Glossary Page for each directory. This specialization is important (Originally I had the tendency to load everything together). I am glad that I used several servers, it helped to keep the subjects at distance.
Only now I do have some ideas about the plan for each website. And only because each of them was beta-tested by the visitors. (That is why I do not mind that my data is free, in many ways I and the readers are working together in shaping my websites).
I suspect that at some point in the future everything on the Internet will have commercial aspect. Perhaps some pages will stay open as they do with the first chapters of the books, but most likely the rest will be for paying members.
What does this mean for a web-developer? Again, the organization. The free part of the website is an advertizement for the paid services. And it should be treated this way: presentating the site.
We do not hear about the porno.coms filing for backrupcy, because they know about the proper balance between free and paid services.
New directories Business Film-North and Biz Virtual Theatre -- the nest step after having two WEB directories. Well, show business is a business and should treated as such. Seriously.
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Film does have a bigger appeal than Theatre and the numbers prove it (?)...
