Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00887
To: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com, beam beam@corp.sgi.com
From: dennison dennlill@buffnet.net
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:20:51 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: first beam home page ideas
I wouldn't pay for a web site. Sure I know I offer booklets for a small
charge to cover printing. But so far no one's bought any, and it's certianly
not kept exclusive.
Dennison
>Umm... You realize that it's not realy going to pay to charge for stuff
that is
>going to be free elsewhere, like the tutbot, which I'm working on and will
have
>complete instructions when i'm done. All my complex projects will be free
for
>all to see, and If I just happen to build something, regardless of where
the
>info comes from, I'm posting pics on my page. Besides, I don't think the
>"exclusive" page is realy very fair to the open nature of BEAM, unless it's
>official with Mark Tilden. I think it's the free information that has made
BEAM
>so popular! You can try, but I don't know how well it'll work. Are you
willing
>to put a FULL effort into this, after all, you'll have paying customers.
You'll
>need to give them their money's worth if you try this!
>
>My opinion, a public newsletter would be nice, but if it's exclusive, I
don't
>know about that.
>--
>
>
>Evan Dudzik wrote:
>>
>> okay, here are some basic ideas for the page. suggest any changes you
>> like
>> Background: Dark (Black?)
>> Frames: None (not yet)
>> Text: Yellow or white
>> Setup: Main Page, with links to pages for each topic-
>> Plans/Tutorials , circuits, links, ideas, etc
>>
>> Also, I think a lot of links should be directly in the text, so people
>> don't have to keep going to the links page. we should let people
>> email us tutorials in HTML to add to the tutorials part, also for
>> circuits, etc
>> and we should each search around through other BEAM pages and find
>> info we could use, then ASK the owner if we can use it.
>>
>> As for the newsletter, we should have a password protected page or a
>> page with NO links to it for paying (~$5 annually) customers, with
>> highlights from past issues as well as some tutorials exclusively for
>> paying customers, such as more advanced stuff- turbots, etc.
>
>Richard Piotter
>richfile@rconnect.com
>
>The Richfiles Robotics & TI web page:
>http://members.xoom.com/richfiles
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