Global Chemweb?

[Paul May]

Hi,

> Echoing the suggestion here we 
> floated the idea of a 'molecule of the week' but it didn't get off the 
> ground.

Superb idea!  Why don't we all volunteer to find out information
about one particular molecule each and put it up as a web page.  A central
coordinator (Henry?) can then nominate a 'molecule of the week' from
the submitted pages. All the UK web sites could then put a pointer to that
particular page for that week on their home pages.  It might be a way of
increasing interest in the Web, and build up a database of molecular
information at the same time.  To get undergrads interested, I'd suggest the
pages weren't too 'heavy', keep them simple, informative and interesting...
Anyone agree?  Anyone keen to make a molecule of the week page?


> The central thing is that there should be an easy way of mounting 
> cgi-scripts and editing them.  (Remember that almost all forms require a 
> cgi-script to process them.)  A library of cgi tools would be extremely 
> valuable.  If anyone has a database engine that can process the results 
> that is extremely valuable (we looked at /rdb - the author gave us some 
> help - but we didn't have enough resource).
> IF we can get a collection of resources I am sure that otehrs will add to 
> it rather than duplicating it.

Yes, yes, yes!  I've been pestering our computer centre for 6 months to provide
me with useful cgi programs to do things like make password protected areas,
hot images, search engines, page access counters, stats packages, etc, but
they still haven't done it.  A centralised resource like this, eg on an
ftp site, would be invaluable!

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