The original Mark Wachdorf's home pages had two basic themes; Jokes and Coffee. The jokes were assembled from user contributions and also from Internet and FidoNet newsgroups. The Coffee material was original material which tended to have a humorous slant with a coffee theme (See the France page, and the Kona Friday pages).
The name CoffeePlace was chosen because the original pages kind of had a coffee theme, and we wanted an easy-to-remember domain name. I prefixed 'CoffeePlace' with the word 'The' because it made email account names easier to remember. Mark@TheCoffeePlace.com in my opinion is easy to remember. Besides it was a domain name that wasn't taken.
TheCoffeePlace contains the same original themes contained in Mark Wachdorf's home pages plus a collection of database driven pages centered around particular themes.
These are lists of information stored in tables are used to present data useful to a reader. Mechanisms are in place to allow contributions from outside sources. For example most lists contain a 'user-add' form which will allow a web surfer to add to the list of information.
The basic idea behind these lists is that I am studying the basic transferal and management of data across a time delayed transfer medium. A user submits a form which is packaged into an email message. Since I do not have a direct connection to the email, data is kept in a queue stored at my ISP, when I connect to the Internet, messages are transfered to my email system which are then exported into a database, periodically database information is exported from the database into web pages which are then posted into the Internet. If I had more control of the computer hosting my web pages, then I'd probably be talking about real messaging queues, and online databases, but since I'm exposing my pages through a provider this is the best I can do with the time I have.
The travel theme contain hotels, coffee shops, sites, and a calendar of events. Each catagorized by City. The travel theme will allow a web surfer to add to the lists being maintained at the coffee place.
In 1999 I changed my provider to a provider which allows me to post ASP pages, also I am allowed to place an Access database on the web space. Consequently I have additional capabilities which were not available in the past. Since I am a programmer/analyst by trade, I wanted to investigate the benefits offered by such a platform. The results of which are accessible through the TODO link listed on the main page. Basically what I found that ASP/database provides is:
Page created by: Mark@TheCoffeePlace.com
Changes last made on: Dec, 2001