>Dragan:
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>I am a West Wind user and I can tell you the Lulu Splash Screens were not done directly with West Wind but you can render any HTML or Java Ssript code from the West Wind environment. But you would need some special tools to do the type of stuff in Lulu.
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>I find in VFP that Splash screens are of no value because the customer has already bought your code and if they are using it every day, a Splash Screen can drive them nuts.

...and bolts, if it stays there forever. Its only purpose is to give some clue to the user that the app is not stuck, it's initializing. Specially the small messages (like some apps have) telling the user what's the app doing, in small print somewhere on the splash screen.

But if a splash stays on after the app has loaded... well, that's just rude.

>But the Internet is different. A Web Site is a bit like a flower that is trying to attract people to stick around and read on. This is want a creative genius like yourself would be good at. i.e. picking out nice colours, graphics, making it simple and interesting. Such a Web Site could motivate eskimos to buy refrigerators or women to buy cotton jewelry! :)

Our oldest daughter is the Flash genius (and generally the visual arts expert - graduating them in a couple of months), while I'm definitely not the visual layout guy. Took me some time to realize that about myself, and now I'm much happier, not trying to get praise for the nice layout of my forms, but rather trying to get someone else to do them for me :).

Anyway, by the time we were posting the website, she was past her Flash phase and went on to more sophisticated tools, so I figure the lack of a nice Flash flower in our garden is due to bad timing.

>I also like your political views. We spent a number of years in the Middle East and our family was not thrilled when George started beating the war drums about Iraq. I actually wrote a couple of letters to our newspaper predicting what has happened over there. Each day we pray that John Kerry will be victorious in November.

Prayer? You don't want to know about my religious views, then... but if you were around a year or two ago, you probably know them.

Still, spreading some truth and common sense may help. ABB (anyone but Bush) seems to be a movement on the rise.

>Anyway, if I have any creative writing I will look up your site and see if I can get through the editorial board.

Lulu is definitely not my site - I currently don't have one - I say I'm just a humble member there, trying to sell a hypertext SF book. Which is a hard sell, btw, because there's been maybe just a few of those so far, and nobody heard of such a thing.