About this site March 2002 This is my first web site. It was originally built in 1995, and completely rewritten from the ground up in early 1996. After writing the site, I rarely updated it and never made any major changes in site design. But, I finally considered making major changes to the site in March of 2002 using the tools I use to build other sites - tools like perl, PHP, Zope, and portal toolkits. However, after reviewing this site, I decided I liked the simple, clean, historical flavor of the site. Some people may complain about the use of frames, but I used them because HTML doesn't have an include statement and frames helps one avoid some of the code redundancy that one normally avoids by using include statements. So after due consideration, I decided to update and enhance the site using a minimal number of "modern" tools. However, I have made one exception to this and will probably make a few more as time goes on. (I couldn't live without some sort of include statement, so I'm using a bit of very simple PHP in this rewrite.) Note from April 15, 2002 Another problem has cropped up. I noticed that it is hard to make a link to DavidMandel.com that includes both Index_Window and a page in the main display area. However, if people from the outside just link the a main content page there may be nothing to guide them to my home page. There seem to be a couple ways of solving this using PHP, and eventually I will have to use one of these. I should probably Add a varible, HomeLink, to each page to display a link to Home unless one has something like http://DavidMandel.com/personal/resume/?HomeLink=no Or else, use PHP to examine the domain name. It could then print home link information if it doesn't like the top level domain. Make the contain of each frame always be a variable. Unfortunately, I don't have time to do either of these at the moment; so this will have to wait.

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