David Marvin inquires from Rochester Just Curious: Who keeps up your Webste? I AM a freshman at the University of Rochester. I am in a class called War and Memory here at the U of R. I was curious as to who keeps up your page and who is assigned to placing new articles and maintaining the web site.
I would like to compliment you on the quality of the site and say that it is a very provocative site, but for the class I would just like any information that you could give me. I appreciate your time and your timely response. My paper on your site is due on Monday September 18th. I would appreciate any additional information that you might have to give to me. Thank you again and have a great day.
David Marvin David Irving replied on : Surprise answer for you: I do the work all myself. I learned HTML three years ago after I started the website, driving around the Pacific North-West (or rather being driven); I read all the For Dummies books, which told me a lot I needed to know, a lot I didn’t need; and didn’t tell me a lot I did need. E.g.: keep files small. I use a lot of Javascripts too, but have found they cause problems.
Last year I decided on principle to offer on the Internet all my books eventually as free downloads ; this costs a lot to prepare and upload and webspace, but it’s my way of saying thank-you to the community. I get a lot of emails from students around the world, asking for help in consequence. I have tried to find a paid staff member who can take over half the work of running the site. No luck so far, after a number of false starts.
The material is selected by me from a very large volume of submissions made to me mostly by strangers. The