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Credits
This credits list is a progressing and incomplete work. Most proper names are trademarks owned by said companies. The inclusion of a Web link in no way implies endorsement by the linkee, nor the other way around for that matter.
These are the people, software, and things that have helped Gaudette-Net, LLC create what you have seen here on the Web site.
The People:
- Tim Berners-Lee and the rest of the W3C; the former providing HTML's beginning and the latter making it all worth while.
- Home page beta testing by George Koehler and Alan Gaudette.
- Mathematical support and quizzical banter provided by Michael Christensen.
- About a dozen Web Authors from whom I learned basic ideas: Jim Knopf, Tim Evans, Zeldman's Ask Dr. Web, the team at Web Monkey, and ...
- Thanks to all the people that have written with comments and suggestions!
The Computers:
ISPs' Computers: running Linux and FreeBSD.
Web Design Mac OS Computer: A modified Apple Power Macintosh 6400 running an IBM PowerPC 750 (G3) @ 300MHz.
- Dual monitor setup
- ATI true-color graphics card (32bit color)
- Plextor CD-ROM writer
- Running the Apple Mac OS 9.1
- Macromedia Fireworks 2.0, (with various custom-made templates and textures.)
- Meta Creations, Kia's Photo Soap 1, (Photo Soap 2 is now owned by ScanSoft.)
- Abode's GoLive 4.0 Professional, (with customized tools and wordlists.)
- LemkeSoft's GraphicConverter
- AppleWorks 6.x and MacLinkPlus to open almost any document.
- Alpha, a programmer's text editor based on EMACS.
- Excalibur, a spellchecker that dovetails with Alpha using my hand-extended wordlist.
- Cyberdog 2.0, an OpenDoc-based Internet client suite.
- Netscape Communicator 4.7, as a preview Web browser.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac 5.0, as a preview Web browser.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac 5.5b1, a special early beta version.
- Netscape Communicator 6.0 (Mozilla,) as an experimental next-generation browser.
- iCab 2.2a, as an experimental browser.
- WebTV Viewer v1.1.223, as a preview WebTV browser that runs on the computer.
- Apple QuickTime Professional 5.0 has been used for creating animation files and efficient sound files.
- Farallon FastEthernet card
Java Development and HTML Test Bed Windows 98 Computer: A hand-built PC, with 300MHz Intel Celeron.
- Sony Spressa CD-ROM writer
- ATI true-color graphics card (32bit color)
- Running Microsoft Windows 98 Edition 2
- Netscape Communicator 4.7
- AOL 6.0 for Win95/98, has been used as a preview Web browser.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, has been used as a previewer.
- Opera 5.0, has been used as a previewer.
- Microsoft Notepad for limited HTML editing.
- WS_FTP and SmartFTP
- Apple QuickTime 4.0
- Farallon FastEthernet card
Experimental Linux Computer: A hand-built machine with a 300MHz Intel Celeron chip.
- Running Red Hat Linux 6.2
- Netscape Communicator 4.7
- Farallon FastEthernet card
Live Back-up Computer: Apple Quadra 950,
(for Archiving and instant access to old work on the LAN):
- Mac OS 7.5.5
- over 128MB RAM
- SuperMac Thunder 2 NUBus graphics card
- Farallon Ethernet Transceiver.
- a big Seagate "Barracuda" SCSI hard drive.
Mobile Office: Apple iBook SE (Firewire),
(for spot invoices, feild tests, classroom instruction, digital camera, ...):
- PowerPC G3 @ 466MHz
- 320MB SDRAM
- DVD player
- Apple's Mac OS 10.1
- OmniWeb 4.x
- GraphicConverter (carbon)
- iMovie 2.1
The Books:
- Web Design in a Nutshell. Published by O'Reilly & Associates.
- 10 Minute Guide to HTML, Tim Evans, QUE.
- Using HTML, QUE.
- Special Edition: Using the World Wide Web, QUE
- Mastering UNIX Serial Communications, Peter W. Gofton, SYBEX, 1991.
- Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, 1989; special credit goes to the "Manual of Style" in the back.
- Java in a Nutshell by David Flanagan. Published by O'Reilly & Associates.
- Programming with Java! by Tim Ritchey, New Riders Publishing.
Other Publications:
Buttons, Icon Images, and Fonts:
- The button set for these pages are not yet, if ever, finalized. Old button sets were from free clip art collections, but now they are almost always hand-made in FireWorks.
- Trebuchet MS and Webdings from Microsoft's Typesetting site.
- Zapf Dingbats from Adobe.
- Zeal from Font Bureau Inc., as distributed by Apple Computer.
- Other fonts from Publish magazine's customer resource area.
This credits list is a progressing and incomplete work. Most proper names are trademarks owned by said companies. The inclusion of a Web link in no way implies endorsement by the linkee, nor the other way around for that matter.
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