Is this really Nerdheaven or just the outer edges of experimentation?  It may seem like a dumb question to wonder how long, and big, you can make a world wide web page but it is consuming our everyday life. It is pressing on our consciousness_________  as we try________ to_______ ____ imagine the outer ______limits of webmania.  _______ _What are the limiting factors to how big a web page is?-------------------------------------  Hmmmm. Is it a person's patience? After all a huge page will take longer to download. How many bytes would the biggest page be? How big would the pipe have to be? Would you follow a line just to see how very far it goes, and if it might just be into infinity, but then perhaps you would lose patience and decide to scroll down to find more info and more  pictures just in case there was something of value--------------------------------- because we're all in a quest to add value to our lives, our brains, our bodies, our souls (now that soul part just kinda fell in there, but for some they may see themselves adding value to their souls. it is a comforting thought in some ways. But we digress, we are on a quest to see how big a world wide web page can be - we have read many rules that say a world wide web page should not be any wider than 479 pixels - and we gasped in horror because although we are diehard Macintosh lovers we know that an IBM monitor is much wider - you can throw even Macromedia 640 x 480 pixels out the window because the IBM monitors are wide and skinny... it gave us pause to question who really knew. So, we asked ourselves what if the page were designed to be modular so that whatever screen dimensions a user has it will look right. Of course we patted ourselves on the back because this is a very smart and ideal way to design in such flexibility but can it be done? After all we have been raised in the school of graphic design where an image moved even a fraction of decimal can cause any self-respecting art director to experience heart palpitations. Now the dilemma is can we really allow the images to float around in some kind of loose and unrestricted ether - where the user is in control by virtue (now that's a nice word for Nerdheaven) of how they position the screen and the parameters of their browser window. Nerdheaven is our place to explore ideas about technology and art. And we can ask ourselves why a push/pull script is so fascinating when full motion video is available - is it because it is a new art form? One that demands something more of the viewer? Perhaps. And thinking of that you might also want to consider that the very act of downloading is an opportunity to grab the viewer's attention - - we could fill our computer screens with repeat images tiled to inifinity. But netscape in their wisdom has burst the bubble and taken away some really wonderful features like animated titles and fade-ins. I shake my head in disbelief. I'm sure they had good reason - not html 3.0 compliant or whatever but it really was quite wonderful and....Yes. Now we are pondering navigation. The horror of headers and footers replicated on web pages all over the world breeding and copying faster than "xerox" machines. Of course we understand the strategic decisions behind this simple and logical form of navigation. The strict thinking of "Give me the information now, and only the information I want" has distinct appeal to business-minded folks all over the globe. And yet in our hearts and minds we think there is room for a looser, more intuitive form of navigation. The critics will lambast it for being indulgent time-wasting "crap" however if we pause for a minute and think of the possibilities we can see that  many new things can be experienced and appreciated. For example we have the opportunity to really use suspense and timing to our advantage---------------------------------------------and perhaps a little sense of dislocation and confusion will result. But that is all right. We must be careful not to draw the lines so sharply at this early stage of webdesign when it is still so exploratory! And of course ever-changing. The continuous rush of change we might say wil make the "learners" in our society more adaptable and hence more successful than those who resist new ideas and innovations. Keeping a curious mind as Tom Peters says will reap many rewards for businesses all over the globe. Now as we meander on and on down this very big web page it is clear that the size may only be limited by the patience of the viewer (or the person doing the coding, for as we wrestle with IBM vs. Mac platforms it is frustrating to see the differences - though perhaps this is just a Netscapist glitch, bug so to speak, where pre tags and nobr tags wreak havoc with text. Why are we limiting ourselves to narrow widths when we can play and romp freely across the universal space of the electronic frontier.....  Now can we grab their attention and force them to click and go where we want? This is a puzzle indeed. And it creates a website which is more like a real spider "web" than a restrained header/footer/links sort of page - not that the web doesn't need pages like this. I hasten to add we do! In fact  we have designed many such pages. But perhaps we can think of the difference in information and use that as a guide. After all if the phone book were organized any other way but alphabetically we could really have a problem. So we do "respect" more straight-laced modes of navigation and yet we long for any opportunity to break free and explore alternative ways that are more like theatre. If you are still with me thank you for reading along. Write to us. We love all sorts of ideas and hope you  will come here again to play with some very abstract notions of right and wrong in the world of webdesign. As an art director named Carson says, I think he said it but, I could be wrong, so take it with a grain of salt, he said it's not brain surgery like there is a body on the table and life is hanging from a thread. And i think that is true.  So, we must have courage and forge ahead on new ideas fearless and firm in our resolve to fight boring, sameness and dullness. Oh yes and the status quo. And the page wasn't really that big was it, (but you got as far as here, congratulations) and you could have done better and made it bigger and everybody would have read along right to the bitter end? Good.