Access to Wholeo Online -> wholeO Onward

In 2017 we moved to wholeO Onward and haven't updated Access. Web changes faster than I can. For example, on a desktop I click a QR code image for wholeo.net and jump to this page but on a phone I am at the intro.

Here are the current and planned ways for you to access Wholeo Online. For information about Web site design, see yours or mine. External sites like Facebook, YouTube, or Google+, for example, sometimes have Wholeo content that is linked from related pages. Or you can go there directly. See a collection of connections at External Sites - Access.

Current Access

• Basic access.
  • Mobile devices can scan (with a QR code reader app) the QR code image to the right.
  • Search

    NOTE: Do a browser search with your term(s) for X, as follows:

    X site:wholeo.net

    For example, a Google search for expansion of consciousness site:wholeo.net finds 152 pages on wholeo.net with the words expansion of consciousness. But if you quote the phrase, a search for "expansion of consciousness" site:wholeo.net finds about 98 results.

  • How you see the site depends on your connection to the Web. That includes the Web itself and your ISP, equipment, browser, plug-ins, and perception. Most of these factors are beyond my control or consideration. However, the pattern of colored pixels appearing on your screen is up to me.

    If your screen is too dark to see the darkest colors, you can adjust it. Some of my pages depend on it. You can change the background color. This feature is on most pages in the site, for JavaScript-enabled browsers. Read more about recoloring.

    Here's a checklist of things to help me get color to you (the process is outdated, but the links and terms are valid as of 2001).

  • Many movies and buttons on Wholeo Online require browser add-ons or plug-ins. One is Flash by Macromedia. If you don't have Shockwave-Flash in the browser plug-ins folder, you will see an image map but not the animation. Another is QuickTime by Apple, including QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR). A few use immersive imaging viewers, such as Live Picture. A very few pages use a SuperCard plug-in, by Solutions Etcetera. To upgrade and empower your browser, see links to all of these free plug-ins.

  • That brings up another aspect of basic access, indexing. That is, now that I'm at the site, can I find what I'm looking for? See indexing plans. Most pages have links at the bottom, showing the path of pages to the major section and site index. Each major section has links at the bottom to all major sections.

  • On 2006-02-09, I became aware of the ISO standard date format. I began to show Page created: and Date modified: as YYYY-MM-DD form. See announcement.

• Access mode. At present, as this project gets underway, access mode is text with some graphics. Eventually, these will separate, along with the addition of a hi-res graphics mode. The first consideration is access itself, followed by other factors such as maps, levels, and interactivity.

• Clickable graphics and outline. {Access maps} A map of the links within Wholeo Online provides an overview of the site. Use it to see how the parts relate or to jump directly. There are several kinds of maps including outline, paths, and cross-references.

Planned Access

Access level. Three access levels vary with the degree of consensus reality required, ranging from the objective to the subjective. For example, consider accessing information about my trip to New Zealand.

• Level 1 is the basic travelog with a list of items taken, map, transportation, accommodations, weather, scenery, and events. It deals with physically verifiable facts.
• Level 2 considers personal goals of the trip, feelings, and individual observations. It deals with emotional states or theories that can be communicated but aren't easily verified.
• Level 3 includes UFOs, spirit guides, incredible coincidences, philosophy, poetry, and flights of the imagination that can't be verified. Communication is in symbols or pointers. The mystical far reaches of level 3 cannot be communicated in known mediums. Pointers include hints in rituals, art, stories, and yoga practices.

The plan is to make the access level selectable. It should be like gears that you can shift. In hi-res graphic access you might zoom along a highway, and shift levels by clicking near the top of the window. To move up, you click and drag up. This accesses dimensions beyond 3D.

Other kinds of access. There are other kinds of access I'd like to provide, which are outside of the scope for the foreseeable future. (Except as implemented in isolated cases.) Some of these are:

• Indexing. I probably can't provide real dynamic indexing until deeply into cgi or searches across distributed sites. Wholeo Online is physically located on four different server locations. From what I know now, the answer is classical book-type indexing, including graphics. That will be in the catalog and include related ordering, downloading, input, upload, and so on. The catalog table of contents is the place to search. Search might replace indexing.
• Access timing, display, computer type, and style (whether structured, random, or scheduled).
• Access interactivity, which varies along a scale from passive to active including browse, workbook, annotate, cocreate, email exchange, and sharing virtual reality.

Web site design

You and Wholeo Online

Pleased that you are here. I'd like you to link to my site and spread the contents of Wholeo Online far and wide, if we can agree on a few terms. The terms are under construction, but up and running.

Wholeo Online site design

Here are some clues to help me remember how to create web pages and notes on helpful resources.

How 2s

For starters, here are readme files for:

1. making a hybrid CD with web browser access methods
2. making an object movie with QTVR.

Resources

For links and thanks for specific things, see Credits for help with Wholeo Online.

The author (Caroling) was a member of . The graphics email list from HWG was helpful. Along the way, useful email list groups were JavaScript, Netscape, SuperCard, and the millennium (talk2000). In June, 1998, I haunted a number of QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) lists and lurked on the earth rainbow network (ERN) and spirit web lists. In 2000, Flash and web lists. In 2011 it's video and social networking And so on.

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