Back to Ariel's Home PageHave you tried to read this page, or your home page? The colours you have chosen make it impossible to read the text. Thought you would like to know so you can correct this. Shuen Shuen notes: Yes, that's quite possible with many of the pages. I read about the optimal contrast and relationships between print colors and background colors from a variety of places. It's certainly not a simple task for amateur Web publishers like myself. I'm learning a lot. Check out our more recent home pages. There should be some improvements. One of these days, I'll also implement the new tips in our older home pages. (I couldn't reply to this visitor as no reply-to email address was given. Ariel and I thank this visitor for the kind crticism.)
... Thanks for taking the time to answer
[ Do you know where can I get Disney movies in Spanish? Gracias, Raul] Sorry, I'm not sure where you can get them. Are you in Texas? Can you ask at video rentals if there's any dubbed in Spanish?
Thanks for writing to me it really helped, Im only 11 and my dad could help me because my mom doesn't know anything about computers.Today we get a 2 hour delay from school because of snow. How old are you? Thanks for writing!
Thanks for writing. My mom and dad were the ones who actually made my home pages. They say it's fun. You do need to put in some time though. You have to use a simple programming language called HTML. Actually not really programming, but more like word processing and desktop publishing. You use some standard commands to control the appearance, position, and sizes of the text and images in your home page. I wonder how old you are and if you can get some help from your parents and teachers. Let me know if you have more questions when you actually start building your home page.
I really like your Home page , how did you make your own home page? It is very unique. Could you tell me or help me make my own home page? If so it would be very Appriciative. TO EVERYONE : Explore the rest of Ariels home page it is wonderful and exciting!
Thanks for your report. I've used Netscape 2.0 b1 to browse at Ariel's home pages already. The pages loaded fine. But 2.0b1 was unstable in other browsing functions (it wiped out my bookmarks once) so I've stopped using it. But I'll load 2.0b3 and take a look. And if it OK, I'll recommend people to use that. Otherwise, we just have to wait till 2.0 is formally released.
I enjoyed the visit. I thought I'd advise you of a problem I had on the front page. I am using Netscape Navigator 2.0 beta 3 (16bit version) under Windows 95. When the page is loading (near the end), I get a fatal error reported from Windows. I tried three times and Netscape crashed each time. I guess it's probably Netscape but you may want to take a look... Cheers, Bill
[ Where can I buy the full box of Fantasia? ] As far as I know, Disney releases old movies on video periodically and in limited quantities. Fantasia was out a year ago in Hong Kong and they are now sold out. Your best bet may be to check with your local video store for info.
Where can I buy the full box of Fantasia? please answer me. Thank you! Merry X-Mas and Happy New Year!
Hi.....Tanx For the info on ET.... It's Really hard to find a nice ET icon On the WEb.. I need it for my home-page.... For the bottem of the screen.... U know.... Klick here..and GO Home...(the famous (and only) words said by ET) Check out my page sometimes .... and let my know what U think!! The adress is: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~rris Bye!!!Sander....
Thanks Sander. I got the ET image from the Microsoft Cinemania '95 CD-ROM through a screen capture. I was trying to look for ET on the Net but there seems to be none. It's over 10 years since the movie was first shown and most kids now don't know what ET is because there has not been merchandise perpetuating its popularity. (You can probably still get stuffed toys of ET if you get to the source - visit Hollywood Studio.) I'm not sure what you need to do with an icon of ET. But feel free to download the image from my page, and improvise. Let me know if you need more help.
Love The Homepage!!1 Great piece of Work. I was wondering....where did U get the picture of E.T.?? I'm looking for an icon of ET for my own homepage....and I'm having a hard time finding it...Can U help me?? Good luck and Stay on this path!! Sander.
Thanks a lot for your quick reply... I'll give it a shot. :)
[ Can you help me locate Stephen Spielberg on the net? ] Try the following sites: http://www.cat.pdx.edu/~caseyh/horror/director/spielbio.html http://pathfinder.com/@@yHHWj*FA8AMAQHNR/KidsWB/animaniacs/ANIM-home.html http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/groups-html/alt.movies.spielberg.html
Can you help me locate Stephen Spielberg on the net? Would appreciate either a Web Site or an email address. Thanks.
Thanks for your message and interest in Steam in China. As far as I know at this moment, not much on this topic (China's railroads, trains, steam engines) is available on the Internet. The article "Full Steam Ahead" excerpted from a local newspaper in Hong Kong was uploaded as a related topic to my daughter's fun home page on Thomas the Tank Engine (a children's TV series). I am no railroading fan nor locomotive engineer myself. I haven't done any research on steam engines before. I think the best resources are still the library and latest newspaper or magazine articles and specific books or government publications on Chinese railroads and engines. I recall seeing an English language book on Steam Engines in China, full of photos, but not very well printed, supposedly done by a photographer traveling on the railroads in China, at a local bookstore. That was two or three years ago when I have no interest in railroading things, adult or children's. It's a coffee table book, but I can't remember the book's title now. You might also want to try Compuserve and other online info services. On the Internet, you can try the Time-Warner's Pathfinder Search (web address: http://pathfinder.com/@@SYnnHlH5dQEAQHZF/cgi-bin/taos_mf.pl?unix). This is a very fast search engine to dig up any relevant information from their magazines, which include TIME, Asiaweek, as well as some non-Time-Warner publications. I'm not sure if any recent articles have featured Steam in China specifically; it doesn't seem to be a very sensational topic, nostalgic but not of contemporary interest to most western readers. One other Internet news services you might try is China News Services, at: http://www.chinanews.com/cns/ Wishing you good luck, Shuen Shuen Hung Hong Kong
Hy there - I may not be Colin T. - nevertheless I would appreciate, if you could help me on the matter of "Steam in China" - I am currently researching the topic. Thank you very much for your help, swing
[ Very nice page! Could you please tell me where you got the fantasia pictures? ] I got the one and only one picture of Mickey Mouse in the movie as the Sorcerer's apprentice standing on the top of the mountain from the Microsoft CD-ROM Cinemania '95. Resolution is not the best, but good enough for Ariel's home page. Copyright of course goes to Walt Disney, as Microsoft acknowledges. [ I am looking for some so that I can paint them on our baby's bedroom walls. ] That's the only one picture from Fantasia that I can find. I heard Disney is putting out a new feature sequel to Fantasia and would include some of the music in the original Fantasia. I haven't checked to see if some Disney fans on the Internet have already got some preliminary shots of characters used in the new, and old, versions. Maybe posting to newsgroups such as rec.arts.disney for help? [ I need them to be in electronic format so that I can put them on the wall using a sayette. ] If you like the Mickey picture on Ariel's home page, just download it. The original Microsoft picture has been cropped for the home page. So if you don't have the CD-ROM, let me know, I can get the original larger format picture from the CD-ROM for you. Oh, what's a sayette? I couldn't even find the word in my dictionary. Let me know if you need more help. Cheers, Shuen Shuen
Very nice page! Could you please tell me where you got the fantasia pictures? I am looking for some so that I can paint them on our baby's bedroom walls. I need them to be in electronic format so that I can put them on the wall using a sayette. Thanks for your time.
[ I really like your homepage. I love the Disney movies. I have a question. I am still rather new to the internet. I was wondering if you could explain to me how set up my own home page. ] A home page is set up using a set of so called HTML languages (HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language). Are you familiar with Yahoo, or WebCrawler, or Lycos? Use any of these Web home page search engines to go to How-To pages on writing up HTML home pages. Use the keywords like "HTML", "Introduction", "Beginner", "Guide" in your search. A great place to start is the GNN Netizens (URL address at: http://gnn.com/gnn/netizens/ ). They have a template for a simple personal home page. The basic HTML languages allow you to put together a text file for your home page, and if you have graphics to show along with the text, you can use HTML to define its position and size. Graphics are separate files which the home page text file will call upon to display on demand. The next step is to transfer (upload) the text file and any associated graphics files to your Internet service provider. You may need to talk to them to see where you should put them. You will also check out with your provider what the URL (Universal Resource Locator) or the official Web address for your home page should be. Tell your friends and publicize it on Web directory and registry services (Lycos, WebCrawler, etc.). Let me know too so I can go visit. Eureka! [ Also, how do I set up a message book? ] A message book is set up using what are called Forms. Your visitor fills in information in boxes and your service provider processes it for you, giving you a summary in preset format. You can use Forms supported by your provider, or use a public message book service (try Anyone's GuestBook at http://www.lpage.com:80/wguestbk/ ). You'll have great fun.
I really like your homepage. I love the Disney movies. I have a question. I am still rather new to the internet. I was wondering if you could explain to me how set up my own home page. If you aren't to busy, I would really appreciate it. But if you are real busy, I understand. Also, how do I set up a message book? Thank you very much!
Hey Shuen Shuen, Thanks for the counter! Your Jamican RPI Buddy, Kairy E.J. Walker
Try this public counter and access log service which I use on some of Ariel's pages: http://www.ualberta.ca/GEO/Counter.html
[ I've already linked to your site from Ariel's Message Board with your original message exerpted. ] Thanks a bunch! It's a pity RPI does not yet have the facilities to open up a cig-bin where I can keep track of my page access! Last I heard it will be a while. Oh well... Thanks for the info on kilroy! [ BTW, I tried to get on to Dave Siegel's pages but Netscape responded that there's no such sites. Any suggestions? ] I think there is some real funny stuff going on here. I tried the pages as soon as I read your message and Netscape did some mighty weird things. However, right now the pages come up MUCH faster than they ever had. The High Five Awards Page just got a new domain, and the link on my page is current. All his other pages are in the same places as they always were, so I have no clue why they behaved like they did. Possibly he is doing some "in home" network stuff. At any rate, I will let him know, and if he has an explanation I will definitely send it your way. Currently the pages are up and going, so move quickly and keep your fingers crossed! May you defeat the Netscape Bugs! Your Jamaican RPI Connection, Kairy E.J. Walker
[ I was wondering if I could use the kilroy.gif you use on your pages? Kilroy is real cute! Kindly respond with such information as to give proper credit. ] By all means. It was not my creation to start anyway. We got it from a clip art site so no need for credit. BTW, I tried to get on to Dave Siegel's pages but Netscape responded that there's no such sites. Any suggestions?
Hi Ariel (& Ariel's Mom and Dad!), Sorry for being out of touch for so long! This is that Jamaican guy at RPI that you traded email messages with a while back... ... I was wondering if I could use the kilroy.gif you use on your pages? Kilroy is real cute! Kindly respond with such information as to give proper credit. ... Keep up the excellent quality of your awesome page! Your big kid Jamaican pal, Kairy E.J. Walker "No te preocupes, se feliz!! (Don't worry, be happy!!)" Don't miss The WAVEfront today! (http://www.rpi.edu/~walkek2/wavefront.html)
[ You've positioned yourself as the first page in a "singer, wanted" search. ] Thanks for your email. I never imagine my kid's home page will appear first in a search result list using "singer, wanted" as the key words. I browsed through her home page and I understood why. I've recorded some of her singing on another page but provided a link from the home page with the heading "Budding Singer" (my kid is only 3). The word "wanted" or "want" is a common word which appears in the text of the home page several times. But nowhere are the two words singer, wanted (or want) being used together in the context of your search criteria. The search engines can perform keyword searches with ranking by the frequency of occurrence but the searches are not really context sensitive yet. I even tried the search engines which netcom recommends: 1. Result for Infoseek at: http://www2.infoseek.com/IS/Titles?qt=singers+wanted (appeared as 5th on list) 2. Result for Lycos at: http://query6.lycos.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/pursuit?query=singers+wanted (no appearance of my kid's home page among the first 10 in the result list - up to their Sept 21 records) 3. With Webcrawler, no appearance either. So I wonder which search tool you've used to get my kid's listing to appear in first position. I'm amazed, and flattered. I certainly won't mind my daughter sings well and more important, enjoys singing when she gets older. And I certainly respect all singers who enjoy singing and those who sing for a living. I sincerely wish you locate some leads to what you are looking for. Cheers, Shuen Shuen Hung
You've positioned yourself as the first page in a "singer, wanted" search. Meaning no disrespect, please re-position your page in this regard as I have spent 15 minutes going downloading your page. Although your kid's are beautiful, please remember "Singers" are usually rep- resented by the musician crowd and normally have little or no money.
[Do you know where I can get stills of the part during the movie where Ursula is taking away Ariel's voice?] Hmm, that one is not readily available at all. Ursula is certainly not gaining many fans. If you want to see Ursula, check out this Disney Trading Card site (soon to disappear for a while) for Ursula images under the Little Mermaid: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/summerem/trade.html Or try from this site's picture archive: http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/jmatkins/TLMpage.html and its links to both official and unofficial picture archives elsewhere. I remember seeing Ursula at: http://silver.ucs.indiana.edu/~jwarf/little.html half a year ago. But the site was closed and not yet available again because of Disney's intervention. Or post a request to rec.arts.disney.
Here's one nice Donald Duck image, at: http://www.update.uu.se/~starback/disney-comics/chars/donald.html When you are viewing this page in a browser like Netscape (are you using this?), just move the mouse over the image and click and hold the mouse button. You will be prompted to save the image to your own hard disk. Upon saving, you can look at Donald anytime again.
Well... I just wonder how I can download a Donald Duck picture ... since you are so familiar with Disney. Pls email me and give me the side of downloading... and I ... really appreciate it .... Thank You. Bye .. have a nice day
... You are welcome to link my page to yours. I visited your [Thomas and Friends] pages already. (A little slow going from one character to another.) I like your Thomas and Friends' character portrayals, which are something lacking on Ariel's pages. I'll certainly put a link to your pages soon. ... As I went through your pages, I noticed you've been using Daniel Dawdy's pictures and photos just as I did. I see I have Percy, Edward, Annie and Clarabel's images which you can put on your pages. Are you using Netscape? If you do, you can just click on my images and select save this image as option while you hold the mouse button. That's the easiest way. Just let me know which images you need. So, have fun!
The pages are great. I also maintain a series of pages profiling Thomas and Friends. It has pictures and sounds, please visit it and if you would like, link it to your page. I am linking, unless you send objections, your page to mine, people are looking for this stuff. I was wondering if there was someway I could have a copy of some of the pictures you have that I don't, like FTP or if you could mail some zipped and uuencoded. Please write back and let me know if you are willing and I will send a list of the ones I don't have....
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I use the Mosaic Mail Gateway at:
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/acm-cgi-bin/mailgateway
since our service provider has not released a public cgi-supported server
for use yet. They are concerned about security.
As I just use the forms for visitors to leave messages, there is not much
security concern there. And people like yourself can just fill in
messages for me without having to go to a email program.
For commercial transactions, I do think security of information is a
concern of the customer. So I'm not sure if the public gateway approach
is suitable.
...
Ariel (with mom Shuen Shuen)
... I am also learning the HTML and created a page for myself. My first experiment is to promote T-Shirts that change colors by heat or by UV light. I am trying to create some kind of forms. However, my internet provider does not have a server yet. I can see from your source code that Ariel's messages are posted to a different server. Is it a public server that everybody can use or is it something that you need to subscribe to? I appreciate very much if you will take time to reply me. ...
Thank you very very much for your help. I've found SoundHack and it did work well. The URL you gave me was really helpful. I think I can clean up the music page soon. Thanks again!!
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Here's the WWW site (an Info-Mac archive at MIT) which I remember I used
instead and found is more convenient to do an upload of Macintosh related
sharewares than using Fetch.
http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/HyperArchive.html
...
I've used SoundMachine on my PowerMac to do both Ariel's recording and
playing back of sounds from the global Internet Web pages. Most sound
files are in .au formats out there, which happens to be a UNIX sound
format. So people using SunOS, Solaris, and other UNIX browsers should
find it natural to interpret .au files. Even though PC and Mac browsers
are definitely used by the majority of Web surfers, they rely on helper
applications that can interpret .au formatted sound files, which is more
akin to the UNIX origin of the Internet and serves as a defacto standard
for Internet sound files these days.
SoundMachine is one Macintosh application that plays back .au files. The
sound format native to Mac are .snd (seldom come across on the Internet)
and .aiff, which is one of what you got. .wav format is the Wintel
(Windows/Intel) world's standard.
SoundMachine is at:
ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/snd/util/sound-machine-21.hqx
I've also used another shareware called SoundApp on the Mac to playback
.wav from the Internet. It's probably the most versatile playback Mac
sound tool and does many sound format conversions. However, it does not do
recording and convert sounds to .au format (at least not obvious to me so
far).
SoundApp is at:
ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/snd/util/sound-app-151.hqx
One good resource ... for sounds on Mac is Kyle Johnson's dedicated
Mac site, Publishing Sound on the Web:
http://www.duke.edu/~pkscout/products/sound.html
Johnson's page has links to Sound Hack and Brian's Sound
Tool which I've heard are popular for editing sound and converting
formats. But I haven't tried them out myself extensively. SoundHack is
the tool I would use to convert non .au files to .au files. (Takes a
little trick: open the file to be converted, then save as copy; then in
the dialog box, select Next.Sun as file type and ulaw as format; then
give the new file name the .au extension.)
I'm certainly not an expert on Mac sounds. But I've made recordings with
SoundMachine and play back with SoundMachine and SoundApp, and convert
.wav to .au with Sound Hack so far. These seem to serve my purpose as
well as what you need now. So, my pleasure to share with you my
experience. Let me know if you run into any problem.
...
I'd like to ask you a question about converting sound files to au. Which application do you use? I have two [files]: one is aiff, and the other is wav. I heard au is the best choice for both PC and mac users, so I'm now looking for the tools for Mac. ...
Thank you very much for the tips. I had checked out the Netscape site but did not know about the others. I appreciate the info.
You asked about the home page backgrounds. Check out Netscape's The Background Sampler at: http://home.mcom.com/home/bg/backgrounds.html We used several "paper texture" backgrounds from Netscape for Ariel's page. They are in the public domain, so feel free to use, as they say. The particular light blue background on Ariel's home page (with raining streaks) is obtained from MIT's [KPT Backgrounds Archive], at: http://the-tech.mit.edu/cgi-bin/KPT_bgs.pl You may want to check out Texture Land at: http://www.europa.com/~yyz/textures/textures.html for other background images.... Have fun.
... Would it be OK to use the background image off your page on the school's art gallery page?...
Thank you for the information [on RealAudio]. The Macintosh and Unix versions are not yet available right now, so I will check the site again. Netscape 2.0 will have in-lined sounds and movies as an insider said, but I did not know how. RealAudio is the solution! Hope we can browse the web with it soon. Thank you very much!
Have you looked at RealAudio, the supposedly audio on demand (in real time) that will be bundled with Netscape and other browsers too? I haven't tried it out yet. Here's the url: http://www.realaudio.com/ Check it out! One of Ariel's friend (age 6) was on Kids' Space recently and complained that the pictures and sounds are so slow to come out! The just-can't-wait generation, I suppose....
The transparent gif can be created by a program called Transparency. This is for Mac, but there is one for PC/Windows. You can check ftp://www2.englib.cornell.edu/pub/mac-software/ or other Universities' ftp if Cornell does not have it. For PC/Windows, check at: http://cpcug.org/user/larrym/ ...
A question: I see that the icons you use in the Kids' Space home page fall on the background/background color nicely (borderless). My GIF images often have a square border so the drawing is set in this square white background and then set into the specified home page background/background color. Any quick answer to how I can process my images to adopt a "transparent" background to take up the specified one in the home page when called upon?
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