[sw-l] SignPuddle

[Stephen Slevinski]

Hi Sandy,

I think using Sign Puddle graphics on web pages is a great idea:  It spreads
SignWriting awareness;  It encourages and rewards users of the dictionary;
It was the reason that Sign Puddle was initially created.

Breif history...  When I was trying to organize Pittsburgh United for Deaf
Literacy, I wanted SignWriting on the website.  I downloaded SignBank and
found a directory with about 100 sign graphics, the first dictionary.  The
translation feature was a quick tool for generating HTML code that I could
use on the website to display SignWriting.  These tools grew into Sign
Puddle.  The dictionary used to generate HTML code that people could copy
and paste.  It can again if people are interested.

Thanks to Val for hosting the Sign Puddle dictionaries.  And thanks for
allowing people to link to the graphics.

I do have one request for anyone who uses Sign Puddle graphics on their
website... send Val an email telling her about your site.  She loves finding
new SignWriting websites.  I know, because one day she stumbled across mine.

-Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
[mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of Valerie Sutton
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 9:23 AM
To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
Subject: Re: [sw-l] SignPuddle


SignWriting List
October 8, 2004

Sandy Fleming wrote:
> This would be a very easy way to build webpages with SignWriting
> without
> having to extract and store the images on my own sever, but would this
> sort
> of behaviour be acceptable to you, considering the load it would put
> on your
> server? It might be quite a heavy load if people start using the Puddle
> dictionaries to compose whole texts on their websites!

Hello Sandy, Stephen and Everyone!
Congrats on entering the sign for Wales (smile). I extracted the .png
image from the htm file and here it is attached to this message...Looks
good! When you create a sign in SignMaker now, it creates two kinds of
files. One is a graphic image in .png format, and the other is the one
that holds the language information, called a .bld file (Stephen's
development)...So when I opened your htm file, I found the .png file
for Wales there, and I right-clicked on my mouse and downloaded it.
Then I attached the .png to this message.

Did you know that SignPuddle is not on Stephen's server? We moved Sign
Puddle to the SignBank site during the summer which means it is on my
server....not my server in my home...but on DeafVision, where I pay an
annual fee to host our SignBank site. And as far as I know our memory
is ok right now, so go right ahead, Sandy, and be as creative as you
wish! That was why we moved SignPuddle to SignBank, so we would have a
long-lasting, ongoing server for SignPuddle... Val ;-)