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Copyright © 2009 John Dillon
So he says to me, he says, "If you ain't got no external links, your web page ain't got no class," and I says right back in his eye (the good eye, not the glass eye that got chipped in a knife fight down at Nicki's Bar), I says "I can link the world if I wanted to, and who cares what's at the other end?" Well, that shuts 'im up it does, even yet hows I hadn't put the links in, ya know? I know'd the button to use to make the links be links and it's cool, but why would you want to go to da places I go? You tell me, cousin, you tell me. I'm just throwing these out as place holders, kind of like when Vinnie's always late to the picture show so his fat buddy Al stands in line for him and ticks off everybody behind him 'cause fat people have that weird odor, man, that smells like all the poisons in their bodies are trying to escape. So Al stands in line for Vinnie, 'cause Al is like that, and these web sites are standin' in line till I decide to stick somethin' interestin' in here. And you's guys can all shove for what I care whether you hot link or not, or like it or not. Go figure.
I'll caution you that I've entered some of these URLs from memory, so you may not be successful linking up. Don't sweat it, man; let Al do that instead.
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Software I use for this site
- All the pages these days are written and validated using CSE HTML Validator to insure compliance with W3C standards and cross-browser compatibility. The product provides lots of macro capabilities as well, thus making it easier to bring everything together with a consistent look and feel.
- Some batch processing is done with XyWrite III+, a powerful text editor from the DOS days. In the early days of the web site (pre-2000), the pages were written with with XyWrite as well.
- Certain optimization tools are written in LotusScript, one of several programming languages supported by IBM's Lotus Notes.
- Thumbnails and intermediate sized images are optimized for web display with Easy Thumbnails, (FREE software!) which also generates the web pages based on our own templates. In earlier days we used Thumber, which captures embedded comments as well as other image attributes, but we prefer our current tool for its flexibility and batch capabilities.
- A wonderful little tool called ColorPic helps us match up colors when working on graphics. They offer a lot of other great tools that make your job easier.
- The JPMD and Widget sites are maintained on several separate computers. FileSync is a wonderful tool for keeping the computers synchronized so that both computers contain identical data. They also offer FTPSync, another FTP file synchronizer.
- Since my server now lives here in the house, I can use GoodSync and FileSync for day to day file transfer. However, I still use FTP for the Widget site. Files are uploaded to the Widget web site using TurboFTP. The synchronization component makes it easy to transfer only the necessary files, as well as deleting orphaned files that are no longer part of the site. We used to use WS_FTP Professional from Ipswitch, but after a hardware crash, no amount of effort would allow WS_FTP to be reinstalled.
- Xenu Link Check is occasionally used to explore the entire site for broken links.
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