Presentations Advice

[George Emery]

> Yes, please send responses re: Web Whacker to the list or summarize. I would
> be quite interested as well.

Last year I did a series of "on the road" workshops throughout the 
county and I used Web Whacker extensively. The program downloaded 
pages or sites that I chose including graphics and most importantly 
maintained their relationships. I carried several floppy disks each a 
different subject for a different audience and pointed my browser to 
the a: drive. It worked beautifully most of the time. Sometimes there 
were problems with sites using image maps or forms but that could be 
overcome with a little tweaking. There is a newer version of Web 
Whacker which I havn't used but heard it solved some of the problems.

I also created some of my own HTML pages of instruction to include 
with the downloaded Web pages and have gradually stopped using 
Power Point in my presentations. I did most of the workshops "live" 
but had the Web Whacker files for backup or to speed things up in the 
case of slow dial-up connections. 

The April 1997 issue of Internet World has reviews of WebWhacker and 
other similar programs.

George
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George Emery
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