By way of background, I have had my PM Plus since June '98 and was quite content with posting in newsgroups, establishing close friendships and dabbling a little into HTML in order to enhance my signature box. By December, I was pretty much settled into my cyber-identity, when my son showed up with a Christmas present.....a Hewlitt-Packard 697c, top-of-the-line printer.

Cutting to the chase.........I felt obligated to PRINT and not just standard text such as recipes, poetry and similar "hard-copies". At first, it was just cards from sites on the web, but they didn't seem to have the "personal touch" I was seeking. ( This is beginning to sound like an addiction ;-) ) I decided that I wanted to design my own cards with my own images (vid-caps).

After working out the HTML for the cards, I found that I could never quite capture the "perfect picture-moment". I soon realized that I needed a few pictures to get my point across.......to "tell the story".

I remembered in college, we used storyboards to describe a film or video project. I realized I could reverse the process and take excerpts from a story that had already taken place and had been video-taped.

I also remembered having skimmed over "Draac's School of Tables" in my rookie days with my webby.......it seems like such a long time ago!;-))!   In short, I adapted the code that would enable me to place multiple images on a page in order to convey either an imagined event ( the Sunny storyboard ) or an actual "day in the life" ( the canoeing sequence ).   Most of my applications along the way have been dictated by the number of "usable" images available to me.

Another important consideration was the fact that, with WebTv, vid-caps are essentially horizontal.     In mathematical terms, the horizontal/vertical ratio is 4 to 3 and any drastic departure from this basic formula will result in distortion of the image.   However, minor "tweaking" of a few pixels one way or the other is not discernable in the final product, and in fact, is often necessary for aesthetics.

Well, that about covers the "what" and the "why" of the storyboard story.   And, with the codes on the various pages, the "how-to" is certainly provided.   The question left is "where"?.........where to print out the results.

I found the ideal display area needed to be the width of the standard webpage, or approximately 560+ pixels.   In the beginning,   I had no webpage and, quite frankly, I was intimidated by the thoughts of setting up one.     Following the path of least resistance, I took advantage of the free 1 year account at

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