Once the template is decided upon, and pick all the colors, it's time to do the actual work. The material is provided on disk. Logo and all the text. Clip arts are used for icons and buttons, saving time and money. By this time, lunch is concluded.

After I go home, I gather together all the pieces for the project. I create a little directory and put things in. Logo, text and all the pieces. The reason I'm using a template is to save time. I can do 50 pages a day using nothing but the simplest text editor such as Notepad or SimpleText.

The whole preparation can usually be done in a couple hours. This is done once per site. Once I have finished this, the rest is just building up the pages. Now the fun begins. I lost the momentum after about 15 chapters. Boy, are these really long chapters! It's dinner time! After a quick break, I buckled down again for some heavy duty conversion. I can usually finish a project in one day, but since this is quite long, I gave up and decided to do it in two days, instead.

A few particulars about this project. The original text is about 1 megabyte. The finished HTML is 1.3 MB. The whole project is finished in about two days. I had wanted to put in custom graphics for headers and buttons, but there is only so much room in the floppy. The whole thing clocks in at 1.37 MB, give or take a few.

All in all, not bad for a fun project done in a couple of days. How much do you think a project like this will cost you? To find out, please contact me at (860) 344-0599 or at ramstrong@earthlink.net. Remember that the biggest expense is the material creation. That means writing the text and drawing the graphics, instead of the HTML conversion process.