All HTML coding contained in this site, I have done 100% freehand with the text editor Boxer v9.0. More on this editor below. With the exception of the pics on the side nav bar, all of the pictures I have either taken from free image galleries/sites or I have designed on my own. Mostly with Micro$oft Photodraw V2. The images on the side nav bar I got from a site that I assume was made from a MS-Frontpage template, because I have seen the same setup/theme on several sites and they all claim MS-Frontpage as their generator.

As I said, all of the coding for the entire site is freehand. However, I authored only about 75% of the JavaScript I use. Especially early on in the development of these pages, I extensively used the The JavaScript Source. [http://javascriptsource.com] It is in my opinion the best collection of free JavaScripts, tutorials, example code, and help for JavaScript that I have ever found.

My wife is the one responsible for the very cool color-coordination of this site. She is awesome. I mean, how many wives do you know who don't know a single bit of coding would help out on a private web page project? See what I mean...

With 1 (one) exception, every page on this site is fully World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XHTML 1.0 and CSS Standards Compliant.

All of the documents on this site are XHTML 1.0 Strict or XHTML 1.0 Transitional (loose) compliant. By compliant I mean that they adhere to the rules and guidelines that the W3C [http://www.w3c.org/] publishes. XHTML 1.0 is a mating of HTML 4.01 and XML 1.0

If you click on the images, you will load the W3C Validation page. There you can upload a file or specify an address and it will validate the file/site for compliance.

Not all of these pages are XHTML 1.0 Strict because I am having a few difficulties that I can't seem to resolve. For example: how to use the "target" attribute in relation to the <a> tag in HTML 4.01 or XHTML to open a site in a new browser window. I have compiled a short list of the errors that I am getting into a file: [XHTML_Errors.txt] If anyone has any information, please email me!

What does this mean? If you have a web standards compliant browser, you don't have to worry that you aren't seeing something that someone else can see because of the difference in capabilities between browsers. It is also nice for me, because after I spent all the time to design a good website, I am reasonably sure you are viewing it as it should be. All content, images, tables, etc. are presented the way I intended.

We support the Any Browser Campaign. [http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/]. The code on this site is not optimized for any specific browser. In other words, This site is Best Viewed with Eyes, Any Browser, Any System, Any Time...

That being said, I have 2 qualifiers of my Any Browser statement:

1. I also fully support the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Browser Upgrade Campaign. What does this mean? It means that while this site fully follows HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 standards and is not browser specific, if your browser is not advanced enough to be standards compliant, Go get one! Because this site uses technology your browser does not support.

2. The second qualifying statement is that I don't know how to make the separate frames on my page borderless in Netscape and Netscape 6.01 on Windows2000 does not use all the fonts available to Windows. So to make a long sob story short, you can fully view everything on my site, but it looks like crap because of the goofy borders arround the separate frames and the fonts are not displayed as they should. Even if you have the correct font installed on your computer.
Click [IMAGE] link to see how the main page is intended to look...

Netscape used to be far better than all other browsers and was my browser of choice for several years. But they (AOL) have really messed it and the beautiful Gecko engine up. But that is a completely different conversation.

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