Site Information - How it’s built
This
version of Saws ’N Dust was developed with Macromedia’s
Dreamweaver MX. Dreamweaver provides great cross-browser compatibility
and a wonderful visual environment for working with tables and sliced/diced
graphics.
Graphics were developed, massaged and/or obliterated in Micrografix (Corel) Picture Publisher and photos were taken with a Nikon CoolPix 880 digital camera. The text is “Trebuchet”, unless your particular computer doesn’t support it--all current versions of Microsoft Windows include this font.
Something new for this version of Saws ’N Dust is the ellimination
of all the nasty nested tables that were previously used to organize content
on each page. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to provide all the formating
and positioning. This technology considerably cleans up the code and also
makes future revisions much easier to effect. Rather than totally rebuilding
the site when I want to change the look slightly, I only have to make changes
in one master file. Of course, this technology requires that the viewer
be using a current version of their favorite browser and those with old
versions may see “funky” formating or automatically be redirected
to an upgrade site. This new design was tested with IE
6.0, Netscape
7.0, Opera 7.2x (nice
browser!) and Mozilla 1.1.
If you have an earlier browser version, consider upgrading to gain better
support for new standards and better viewing of modern web sites!
Previous versions of Saws ’N Dust were developed using Microsoft’s
FrontPage which is also easy to use. However FrontPage did not produce pages
that serviced browsers well, other than Internet Explorer, of course. Many
folks reported problems when viewing the site using Netscape, Opera and other
browsers. That problem is now a thing of the past, at least with this site!
Saws ’N Dust is hosted at MyHosting.com.
I have been very pleased with the speed, access and cost for this service
and recommend it highly. If you contact them, please indicate that you were
referred by CID 45259.
Resources used to develop this site:
- Macromedia Dreamweaver MX [software]
- Adobe Photoshop Elements [software]
- Corel/Micrografx Picture Publisher [software] --> Phasing out
- Cascading Style Sheets: The definitive Guide [book] by Eric A. Meyer (O’Reilly)
- Dreamweaver MX Bible [book] by Joseph W. Lowery
- Macromedia Design and Development Center [web site]
- MaKo 4 CSS [web site]
- CSS-1: A Reference [web site]
- CSSCheck [web site]
- Tableless Layouts With Dreamweaver [article] by Drew McLellan
- Simple Styling with CSS [article] by Stephanie Sullivan and Ginger Ciuperca
- A CSS Redesign in 5 Easy Pages [article] by Zeldman
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