Website

the website as a view on my memo system

The website you are looking at is an extract of the contents of my memo system. In other words, it is a certain view of my personal "mind map".

history

I had wanted to do a website like this for a long time, but I did not know how. My main problem was in hosting. I believe this used to be more expensive and more volatile in the past than it is today. But the bigger issue was proprietary IP, or differences of opinion, with my employers.

technicalities

Technically I always knew how to make a simple website. In fact, I had already made an interactive website and server for the "web" interface of the Haptic Master. Its pages were built in my realtime software by straight­forward C++ code. This generated a dropdown menu with data input and display fields using only plain CSS and HTML, and responded to the CGI-type commands coming back from the browser by adapt­ing the page layout and data.

  Recently I found out that it has become more commonplace to build your website with tools like Word­Press. When I looked at their themes and templates however, they seemed too fancy to my old-fashioned liking. I there­fore decided to hack together this simple, passive website almost directly in CSS and HTML again, using exam­ples from W3Schools, and to host it in github's "Pages".

current status

You are looking at the result of my recent efforts. It is, as always, a work in progress. Some architectural choices were made because I did not know better. I have tried to avoid all scripting in JavaScript or similar, and all refer­ences to outside resources, for better longevity. I hope it works.