M A N T E X N E W S L E T T E R
Number 50 - mid June 2001
Writing, Shakespeare + the Web
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0----- 'Taking Your Talent to the Web'
Web design manuals are starting
to become more sophisticated.
There are plenty which deal with
the practicalities of coding, but
there is a new generation emerging.
These deal with strategies for
web development. We reviewed
Jeffrey Veen's excellent 'The Art
and Science of Web Design' recently.
http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/veen.htm
Now from the same publishers comes
Jeffrey Zeldman's 'Taking your Talent
to the Web'.
His approach is to help people make
the transition from HTML to the more
advanced technologies of XHTML, style
sheets, and JavaScripts.
It's an elegant production, and
Zeldman has a witty and entertaining
style. Full review and details at -
http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/zeldman.htm
0----- Routledge Classics
Routledge Classics is a new
series of reprints from their
back catalogue. These are books
which have become established
as 'standard texts' in their
own field.
Authors range from Adorno to
Wittgenstein, from Derrida to
Weber, and from Einstein to
Sartre.
We will be reviewing titles,
starting this issue with
Eric Partridge's study of
Shakespeare's slang and
sexual innuendo -
http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/part.htm
Meanwhile, full details of the
classics series is available at -
http://www.routledge.co.uk/classics
0----- FREE beginner's tutorial in HTML
"Master HTML In 4.5 Hours"
It's FREE! Follow the step-by-step
instructions to build a website page
template you can use forever. Includes
over 100 public domain graphics you can
use in any way you like. Download now!
http://sitetipsandtricks.com/sitekit.html
0----- 'Shakespeare's Bawdy'
Eric Partridge wrote this classic
study in 1941. It's a scholarly but
witty and entertaining study of
Shakespeare's use of sexual puns,
metaphors, and images. You will be
amazed at how much smut is squeezed
out of the simplest-seeming words.
Full review and details at -
http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/part.htm
0----- Windows TIP
You don't have to click the maximize
button to maximize a window. Simply
double-click its title bar - the thick
strip along the window's top bearing
its name. That double-click does the
same thing as clicking the maximize
button, and the title bar is much
easier to aim for.
0----- 'Style Sheets - Pocket Reference'
The latest in O'Reilley's series of
'bare bones' reference manuals is on
cascading style sheets. This covers
all the basics, and most usefully
it offers comprehensive lists of
what will work in recent versions
of Netscape, Internet Explorer,
and Opera. Full review and details
http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/meyer-2.htm
If you want the complete guide to
cascading style sheets, it's at -
http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/meyer.htm
0----- Print Culture - FREE Bibliography
This bibliography on print culture
is a marvellous list of studies on
the relationship between books and
cultural history.
It was prepared to accompany a
presentation about Walter Ong's work
at the 2001 Convention of the Modern
Language Association in New Orleans.
Many thanks to Thomas J. Farrell,
Associate Professor from the
Department of Composition,
University of Minnesota - Duluth
for his permission to reproduce it.
http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/resource/text-bib2.htm
0----- 'Home Office Networking'
Have you now got more than
one computer in the home?
Have you thought of connecting
them to form a home network?
You might want to link up systems
for convenience, or because you
are running a small business.
The latest title in the Poor Richard
series tells you what equipment
you will need, and how to do it.
The approach is entirely practical,
and it assumes you are working
to a limited budget. Details at -
http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/mueller.htm
0----- Literary QUIZ - ANSWERS
Whose carriage awaited Jonathan
Harker at the Borgo Pass?
ANSWER: Count Dracula's in
Bram Stoker's "Dracula"
Who said: "An author who talks
about his own books is almost
as bad as a mother who talks
about her own children"?
ANSWER: Benjamin Disraeli
About whom did Mr Lockwood
have an eerie dream after
reading her journal?
ANSWER: Catherine Earnshaw
in Emily Bronte's
"Wuthering Heights"
P.S. In the next newsletter,
the answers will be in the same
issue as the questions!
0----- Coming Soon!
* Sartre - 'What is Literature?'
* More FREE software
* 'The Sciences Good Study Guide'
* 'Word 2000 in a Nutshell'
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News-50-mid-June-2001
ISSN 1470-1863
The British Library