The message 20050412145252.GA32713@areti.co.uk from Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk contains these words:
What I want is an application which will provide a timeline with divisions of days, months and years as required with the ability to write quite large chunks of text by the timeline. Then, if possible, I'd like to be able to have hyperlinks in the text that would lead out to other descriptions etc. or even to other parts of the timeline.
I want the timeline to be flexible so that in one place a day might take up as much space as a year does elsewhere on the line, I don't want a calendar type fixed layout.
Basically it's a set of interactive web pages with the addition of the timeline 'in the middle'.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for what I could use? It doesn't have to be web based by the way but I suspect that a web application is most likely.
Have a look at www.w3c.org - *EVERYTHING* you'll need to know is there - with the possible exception of which program to do it in.
Personally, I'd suggest either straight HTML or a blend of HTML and CSS.