Greetings Tobogganists!
and Welcome to Our New Web Site
For years the Toboggan Times has been telling you that
a web page is coming, and you fell for it! No, seriously, like
what the road to hell is paved with, we were full of good intentions.
We really wanted to get all of this great toboggan related material
out on the web. But when the time came to actually produce a
web page, we found that our skills at producing the printed page
didn't translate to publishing on the web. We discovered we would
have to hire a web designer to make it happen. But as all of
our regular readers know, we are just too cheap to hire anybody
for something as trivial (in the great scheme of things) as the Toboggan Times. So we borrowed some books on HTML and
we found the process cumbersome. Where is the satisfaction of
banging out code just to make pages that didn't even look like
anything we had in mind?
Aside from being penny pinchers, we are a bit of a lazy lot.
Producing issues on paper was just so much easier, and exact,
than putting anything up on the Web. But it was becoming more
expensive. As our circulation grew, printing costs became excessive.
A big philosophical debate ensued. Were we frugal more than lazy,
or more lazy than frugal? It turns out money speaks louder that
lethargy. For a pittance per reader, we could get that ever important
toboggan news out to everyone who might have an interest. The
biggest drawback we encountered is that even though most hard
core tobogganists can read, many still do not have a broadband
hookup to their cabin. Some complain that you can't take a web
page to the outhouse the way you can a hard paper copy of the Toboggan Times. To those readers, we apologize but times
change as does the Toboggan Times.
Still, we were too cheap to hire a web designer and not glib
enough to convince one to work for free. So here it is, the Toboggan
Times Web Page: crude and rude and full of inefficient code
straight from the early days of HTML when a kid could still cobble
together a site from bits of code he found just laying around
in his sand box.
So read it and weep and don't fall asleep. At least it's cheap.
And it requires no upkeep, on your part, even though in code,
we are knee-deep. Ample rewards we plan to reap, when one of
you up will leap, and explain how we can make any money with
this heap.
Geez it's late.
More will be coming. But first this must get posted because we promised it would be up on the web by March 1, 2008 -and here it is. Now it's time to take a break and then we will come back and fix things. That's how we do things in Maine. |
