COLOPHON

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS

This webpage is written in XHTML, CSS, PHP, and SQL, and was tested on many different browsers including Internet Explorer 5 and 6, Opera 8, Netscape Navigator 6 and 8, Mozilla FireFox 1.5, Mozilla 1.7, and a few various mobile WAP browsers. All coding are valid with W3C guidelines/recommendations for XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.0, and the structure of this website conforms with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 for WAI-AAA and the Federal Government's Section 508 with regards to accessibilities for users with disabilities.

AUTHORING TOOLS

NOTEPAD. Yes, correct. The entire site is written on Microsoft® Notepad (except the images, of course), and saved as web extension files. Not a single web designing software (Dreamweaver, FrontPage, etc.) assisted in this project**. The PHP pages that connect to the MySQL Database Server is also written on Notepad. Notepad is just a simple pure text editor that you can use for many different types of documents.

Notepad files can be saved as Unicode, ANSI, UTF-8, or big-endian Unicode. These formats provide great flexibility for web authoring because it enables the use of different character sets.

Microsoft® Notepad: Simple, Flexible, Powerful (sort of...).

Images are captured using different types of digital cameras and was then modified to specific needs using Adobe Photoshop. Some images are created from Adobe Photoshop.

**Image rotator used was made possible by:
AUTOMATIC IMAGE ROTATOR
Version 2.2 - December 4, 2003
Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Dan P. Benjamin, Automatic, Ltd.
All Rights Reserved.

PUBLISHING TOOLS

The website is served on an Apache Web Server, powered by GoDaddy.com, and the database server for the blogs is stored on a MySQL Server 2.7.