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Summitlake's Cast of Characters ...

 

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These applications contributed to making this web site:

 

America Online, MicroFrontier ColorIt!, Claris Emailer, Fetch by Jim Matthews, Graphic Converter by Thorsten Lemke, HyperCard, Adobe Illustrator

JPEGView, Netscape Navigator, Nisus Writer, Visioneer PaperPort, Apple PhotoFlash, Adobe Photoshop, SFW Photoworks

PixelPeek by Joe Sternlicht, Connectix QuickPICT, rtftohtml by Chris Hector, Tex-Edit by Tom Bender, Transparency by Aaron Giles, Microsoft Word, Zterm by Alverson Software

TextToHTML by Kris Coppieters, Eudora Pro by Qualcomm, Mac Perl by Matthias Neeracher, NSCA Telnet by Clint Popetz, THINK Reference by Symantec, Metrowerks Code Warrior by Metrowerks.

Built By BBEdit! Adobe Systems, Inc.scripted with
 Frontier

 

Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0; Homesite 4.5 and 5.0; Macromedia Fireworks; BBEdit; Adobe products; Frontier Scripting

Not pictured: Microsoft Visual Developer's Studio, Adobe PageMill 3.0, CuteFTP, WS_FTP_Pro, Microsoft Front Page 2000, 1st Page 2000 by Evrsoft, 602Text; Anfy Java; TextPad

Like a playbill, the "cast of characters" in the application list above is a chronological listing of everything we have used and liked on this site since 1995. You'll note that some of these apps are gone forever. Many of these listings read more like a history of the Internet, which they are. But all played a role or a part in its development.

It's much more work to capture a logo or icon for Windows applications than Mac, which is why more of these show up on our "not pictured" list.

Currently (March 2003), we rely most heavily on the following products or services:

  • Page design: Dreamweaver MX, Homesite 4.5 and 5.0
  • Scripting: Homesite, TextPad (Windows)
  • Scripting (Macintosh): BBEdit 6.0
  • Automated page creation (development side): Frontier 6.0
  • Automated page creation (server side): Perl
  • FTP: WS_FTP_Pro 7.0 by Ipswitch
  • Buttons and graphic navigation devices: PhotoShop 7.0
  • Web Images: Photoshop, Fireworks
  • Panoramas: Panorama Factory
  • Perl publications: O'Reilly & Associates
  • DSL and dialup connectivity: Pacific Bell Internet/SBC
  • Web hosting: WestHost

No listing is made for hardware or OS platform because it's irrelevant to the web. We use a Pentium desktop, iMac and a laptop for web development. This site uses mostly Windows 2000 for reasons that have little or nothing to do with webmastering. Great web pages can still be created with any machine, any text editor, and a good idea.

 

 

 

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