More About the Swanson Web Pages

Updated January 5, 2006

This page has some randomly-scattered links that help describe our web environment. All of these tools and ideas influence our thinking.

[noframes] We really don't like to use frames. Some people hate them, others merely hate them, some truly hate them, and Jakob just dislikes them.

Rather than hit our heads on frame design, we are now using more Ajax and dynamic Javascript in our web pages. Oh and yes, we LOVE Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

We process graphics for this site using:

On Windows 2000: Paintshop Pro [now sold by Corel], ImageMagick, and [GIMP] GIMP

On Fedora Core Linux 4: GIMP, and ImageMagick

All highly recommended!

For more web page design and improvement ideas, look at Jakob Nielsen, d. siegel's tips, and Web Color Information.

[NO] Awards Won by These Pages (That's Fine With Us)!

Our current "experiments" are using software that has become a de-facto standard: Ajax and Javascript. For instance, we have used them for our slide-shows of cruise photos. These technologies are used very successfully by Google GMail and Google Maps.

We've also written some Java applets. Here's one to search the random thoughts about the Grateful Dead. [68K Java Applet]

We used to not play favorites as to browsers, but we strongly recommend that you should be viewing these pages with Firefox! Hey, it's free!

NOTE that these pages are also designed so you can view them with LYNX (or without images activated)! LYNX is also available for DOS (really!)

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