Credits

Cast & Crew
	Concept & Execution by:	Lawrence Fox
	Proofreading & Production Editing:	Gail Copeland
	Furballs, Purring & Kneading and Nap-time Reminding:	Delilah, Sam & Chewzilla the MonsterCat
	Site Hosting:
	Miscellaneous Stuff: This site is copyright © ComputerWizard Consulting, 1999. All rights reserved. Protected by all kinds of legal eagles. Don’t forget the savage gnomes and hungry dragons. Eat your vegetables and don’t argue with your mother. “Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger”. And we get even, eventually. And one more thing: Always wear sunscreen.
Technical Stuff
	All kidding aside, I have to give credit where it’s due. I couldn’t have created or maintained this site without several terrific tools and references, as well as advice from many different individuals. In case you were wondering what we used and for what, here’s the list:

	Site Design References:	The Official Netscape Netscape Composer Book, by Allan Simpson (ISBN 1-56604-674-2, Ventana Co, 1998). His site (Coolnerds.com) also contains a number of nifty tips and free graphics. A very nice, all-around introduction to HTML coding—which will help you no matter what software you use to create your site! The Non-Designer’s Web Book by Robin (not the comedian) Williams and John Tollet (ISBN 0-201-68859-X, Peachpit Press, 1998) is well-written, humorous, and filled with terrific examples. I had to re-write several pages of my site after reading this one, so I’d advise you to read it before you get too deeply involved with creating your site.

	Graphics Design Software:	Paint Shop Pro 5 by Jasc, Inc. Terrific graphics software for creating, touching up and playing around with all things graphical.

	Web Site Creation & Management: I started with Netscape’s Composer but it didn’t provide me with a graphical overview of the site—and after a few pages, continually updating a Visio document got a little bit trying—but Composer is terrific if you’re only putting together a couple of pages and the price can’t be beat.

		You’ll need a text editor if you’re going to use Composer. If your files get too big for Notepad, WordPad won’t do—you still need a “pure” text editor. If you don’t want the bells and whistles of Arachnophilia (discussed elsewhere on this page), try TextPad32 from Helios Software Solutions. (I use it all the time for other, large text files; it will print line numbers so it’s terrific to use with DQL code printouts.) Unfortunately, as an HTML editor, it’s a bit lacking since HTML code is not colour-coded and can be difficult to parse.

		If you don’t mind editing HTML directly, and like the absolute power you get from being able to break nearly all of the rules, try Arachnophila. It also does not provide an overall graphical view of your site, but helps clean up HTML code and has a nice colour-coded editor.

		I also tried Macmillan Publishing’s Web Page 5.0 Construction Kit Deluxe Edition, which is a suite of products bundled together from a couple of different software houses. The WYSIWYG page designer and site manager is WebExpress from MicroVision Development and there’s a nice selection of clip art on the CD. WebExpress has a nice graphical overview/site manager, and it located a number of broken links within the site for me in the first few minutes I used it. On the other hand, I got a bit frustrated with it because Arachnophilia let me break some rules that WebExpress kept “correcting” for me. There’s no HTML editor, so I needed to keep firing up Arachnophilia.

		Sigh. I tried to stay away from products from the Evil Empire of Redmond, but I eventually ended up with FrontPage98. It, too, kept “correcting” things until I realized that I was going about it the “wrong” way. Once I realized the error of my ways, things went a bit smoother. On the other hand, since I’d just spent around $200CDN on the software and pile more on some books, I figured I might as well keep using the software and found a few nice additional features. The ones I like best (so far) are the graphical overview of the site which makes managing a multi-page site (like this one) much easier, and the multipage editing features. There’s also a really nice colour-coded HTML editor included for fine tuning your results.

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