About Our Website

We would like to thank you for taking time to find out a little more about our website. We have worked hard to make this site easy & intuitive to use, informative (though by no means comprehensive), concise and comfortable to look at.

If you would like to give us feedback (or seek further information), please, look at the Contact section of the site.

The Personal Nature...

This website provides information that we wanted to be available to many individuals (and in some cases, corporations, too). Please, see our copyright page for more information.

Technologies Behind Our Site

Our website relies on several technologies to make it all happen. You really could not go wrong making use of one or more of them, listed below.

Hosting Services Provided By XMission

XMission provides this webspace as one service with our DSL Internet access. XMission provides a wide variety of high-quality Internet services at competitive prices. Click on their logo here to find out more about the connection and hosting services XMission could supply to you.

Sun^TM UltraSPARC^TM Driven

Sun Microsystems has been designing & building powerful, high-availability computing systems for over a decade. If XMission gave us the option to host on a different hardware platform, we would stay with the Sun UltraSPARC processor.

Sun^TM Solaris^TM Powered

Solaris is the Operating System of choice for Internet Servers the world over. With good reason; Solaris is one of the most reliable Operating Environments available. We use Solaris for our own development web server at home.

Running on the Roxen Platform Webserver

Roxen provides a highly customizable environment for serving web content to the Internet or Intranets. We are not using (nor plan to use) any of the extended customization capabilities of the Roxen Platform.

Written In PHP

PHP is the best way to build websites, hands down. PHP offers the ability to quickly develop and deploy data driven websites & applications, then provides a stable, high performance environment for even the busiest websites. Every page on this site is generated using PHP.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (notice the recursive acronymn?) is a full-featured programming language. It has too many features for us to list here. Please, visit their website for a comprehensive list (and the best online reference manual).

Our Pages Conform To W3C Standards

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is the body responsible for standardizing all technologies used to build & display content on the world wide web.

NOTE: Netscape Navigator/Communicator versions 4.whatever, will not render our pages very readably. We have no plans to write Netscape 4.x specific versions of any page(s). For those using Netscape 4.x or older, we recommend upgrading to the latest version.

We have fully tested every page on this site using these recommended browsers:

We have also tested these web browsers, which we recommend that you DO NOT use, for security reasons:

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Valid XHTML 1.0

By ensuring that all of our pages conform to the XHTML 1.0 standard, we know that any (conforming) web browser will successfully render our pages, readably. It also opens the door to allow us to make use of many exciting features without worrying that someone may not be able to view our site.

Valid CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

Cascading Style Sheets give us the ability to enforce a common look accross all pages with minimal effort. We can also change virtually any aspect of the look of the site in just one place, and see such changes on every page. With the ability to cascade style sheets, we can slighly or significantly modify that look in another section, or even on just one page.

DISCLAIMER:

All names, trademarks, servicemarks & copyrights mentioned throughout this website, are the exclusive property of their respective owners.