About the TopPanels

About the TopPanels

When we decided to set up the Panels we thought of providing people all over the Internet with a place to display freely their work and their opinions on their favourite subjects. Sort of Forums of Interest or Special Interest Groups for which the connectivity is provided by the Internet and a few hard disks. They would eventually turn into multi-level multy-author Web Pages about a specific subject, hopefully kept organized by the efforts of someone called Panel Master. We feature for a start a few subjects people at our site feel they can help with or at least give it a try, but anyone from the Internet can be a Panel Master, provided he is decided to take on the required effort.

Well, that's the general ideea, maybe we can refine it in the future with your help. We'll just start it and see how it works. If you like it you can start your own panels here or on some other site of your choice. If you intend to do so, please read the copyright notice at the bottom of this page.

To put it shortly the TopSite Panels are places on our servers where people interested in a specific subject can contribute various information. Anyone interested by a subject can post related material to us. To post, you must follow the procedure below :

write your work using an html editor
your main file name must be index.html
all your files must have lowercase names
all the references in your .html files must be lowercase
compress your files using one of the following programs:
- ARJ
- PKZIP
- TAR - GZIP
email the webmaster@topedge.com and attach the compressed file containing your work
the email's subject must be: "TopPanels Posting Request"
the email must contain:
- your name and email address (required)
- the name of the panel on which you want to post
- the title of your work
- a small text describing your work (don't forget the attachement !)

On our side, we will:

uncompress your work and ask the Panel Master to take a look at it. If he finds it interesting and compatible with the general structure of the Panel, if we think it would be appealing to a large audience, and if the links work, we'll post it on the Panel.
if not, we will inform you and ask you to work it out.
if we decide to post it we'll leave your work absolutely unchanged except :
in your "index.html" we'll add 3 links:
- one to that panel's main page
- one to the TopPanels directory page
- one to the TopSite main page

We assume no responsability whatsoever for the contents of the posted pages.
Your name and copyright will be posted next to the link to your work.

We'd like to think the Panels ideea is original (as far as we know) so we thought we'd better copyright it. However, the conditions for using this concept are in our opinion minimal :

Anyone wishing to set up Panels on their site can do this at their will on the condition that they include the phrase :
"The Panels concept Copyright © 1996 by TOP EDGE Engineering"
and a link to our site http://www.topedge.com

Last updated : the 16^th of November 1996