How

What is “how”?

In my orig­i­nal sta­t­ic site I imag­ined this as a sec­tion where I would store a vari­ety of how-to-do things:

  • How I build this site
  • how I cook

it has not worked out quite as I imagined.

I expect that I will take the small amount of mate­r­i­al here and cre­ate new pages as blog entries that can be tagged for more sim­ple discovery.

Some tools used at this site:


created in Nisus Writer

but­ton used on near­ly all pages of the site in 1999



I am indebt­ed to many peo­ple who have helped me learn a new artis­tic lan­guage. Most of all Joe Kissell, the gen­er­ous host of my ear­li­er site on “computergeeks.com”. I have also learned a tremen­dous amount by the seat of my pants cre­at­ing the site of Nis­us Soft­ware Inc.

I start­ed, under Joe’s tute­lage learn­ing a bit of raw html (in Nis­us Writer) when I cre­at­ed the first edi­tion of the Hag­gadah (now archived). Since then I’ve learned to use PageMill (ver­sions 2 and 3) as well as GoLive (ver­sion 3) (tools which no longer exist.) Now I’ve come full cir­cle. I use those fan­cy tools for explor­ing some design fea­ture and then edit the code in Nis­us Writer.

More recent­ly I began explor­ing oth­er tools:

  • Free­way
  • Dreamweaver

but I only use Coda and Word­Press itself.
I am com­fort­able enough with code to be able to write a decent amount direct­ly. In fact, I write the code for most of what appears in this new site, or copy and mod­i­fy it from the old sta­t­ic davka.org materials.


how i cook


© Mark Hurvitz
Last mod­i­fied Wednes­day, Octo­ber 6, 2010

One Response to How

  1. Jonathan Silk says:

    Dear Mark

    Prob­a­bly you don’t remem­ber me but we used to talk from time to time in the Nis­us days, when you always kind­ly solved my (Nis­us relat­ed!) problems.
    Any­way, I just read a delight­ful com­ment by you about the beet on the pesach plate and want­ed first to wish you Pesach Sameach, and sec­ond to just say hel­lo and that I hope you are well.
    Jonathan Silk

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