Re: Masthead

All right, all you wise acres ...

Unless I missed it, I don't think anyone answered the question from the
standpoint of what "Masthead" means in the web world.

The short answer is -- It depends on who said it.

Masthead used to mean the portion of a newspaper or magazine that had the
publisher, editor, contact info, etc. etc.

At least it did in some areas of the world. Almost as many even back then
would argue that Masthead meant what I would call the banner or top of the
front page of a newspaper where the title and date of the publication is
displayed.

Due to the homogeneous nature of our list, different meanings are being
applied to some of the older, "print" terms and only time will tell what
terminology we will be using ten years from now. Yes--the school teacher
types and PHD's will still be stressing dictionary meanings, but words were
invented to be used. And as they are used they inevitably get polished and
bent and re-sorted.

No one pays much attention to my ancient insistence that "contact" is not a
verb and that "presently" means in a little while, not right now, which is
correctly said, "at present". So I repeat, in a few years many of these
terms will come to have new universal meaning in the web world. We are even
now, in the process if molding those meanings.

So let us examine this "masthead" business.

If it truly means the place to list the name and address of the publisher,
(Web site owner), webmaster, phone, etc. etc.

And -- as most such information is usually found at the bottom of the
page -- then I submit that mast HEAD is inappropriate and submit for your
consideration:

Mast-tail

We might also call it the Mastbottom but such a reference might not pass
RSAC.

As you can obviously tell, some of us older, single folk have far too little
to do on Mother's Day.

Best wishes
Ted Temer
Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
temer(at)c-zone.net
www.temercraft.com/
www.newsredding.com/


> At 11:13 PM 5/13/00 -0700, Richard L. Friedman wrote:
> >That's one of the dangers of the computer age.  People fortet that
> >information is available in (don't you remember) BOOKS!  There is a
> >class of books called reference books which include dictionaries,
> >encyclopedias, almanacs, thesauri.
>                                          ^^^^^^^^
>
> Hi Ya'll! Isn't a thesaurus an ancient reptile with a very large
> vocabulary? Hehehe...sorry, couldn't resist...and, to all you Mothers,
>
> H A P P Y  M O T H E R S '  D A Y !!
>
> Mike
>
> >--
> >Richard L. Friedman
> >Web Works West -- Web Design for the 21st Century
> >Macintosh LC III (68030); OS=7.5.1;
> >Monitor= 640x 480; HD=430m;
> >Netscape Navigator 3.0.
> >
> >
>
> Michael Jon Muehlendorf
> E-Mail: mailto:coyote(at)scenic-bluffs.com
> WWW: http://www.scenic-bluffs.com/fsg/
>

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