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Contact > About this Web Site
What can you get out of this web site?
I want this web site to improve our communications between you, the potential employer or client, and me, the prospective employee or service provider.
You have questions about what I have done and what I can do to meet your requirements. That's natural.
On this site, I try to give detailed answers to your questions, like a virtual interview. That's cool!
What did I get out of this web site?
For each project, I try to maintain or improve my skills. Here are the tools and skills I used for this one:
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Allaire Homesite
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used to create and edit all HTML or other coding for web pages
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Macromedia Fireworks
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used to make all of the buttons and other graphic elements
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Ulead Cool 3D
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used to make the JRIII cornerstone image in the page-top banners
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Paint Shop Pro
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used for quick editing of bitmap graphics
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Selteco Flash Designer
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used to make the Flash animation displayed on the Contact page-top banner |
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UPDATE, July 2002
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Removed the Flash animation because any site visitor using MS-Internet
Explorer with security settings for "Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins" set
to 'Prompt' will see an ominous message saying this site "...contains
ActiveX controls, which represent a security risk, do you want to enable them?"
(In reality, IE uses an ActiveX control to run Flash, not
this site!!!)
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
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not used before because of browser compatibility issues. Took the big plunge this time, and
used CSS for all text formatting, checking for proper results in three browsers, Internet Explorer 5, Netscape 4.7,
and Opera 6. The best help for this came from www.zvon.org. Also, Eric A. Meyer's
Style Sheet Reference Guide, at www.webreview.com, provided insight about
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JavaScript
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used for the listbox menus in the Work Experience pages.
Used for client-side data validation in the Email page.
Borrowed and modified routines that I found in these books:
Usable Web Menus by A. Beaumont, D. Gibbons, J. Kerr, and J. Stephens, copyright 2002, glasshaus, ISBN: 1-904151-02-7.
JavaScript Bible - 3rd edition by Danny Goodman, copyright 1998, IDG Books, ISBN: 0-7645-3188-3.
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide - 2nd edition by David Flanagan, copyright 1997, O'Reilly, ISBN: 1-56592-234-4. |
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veriscribe.com
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not used before, but I registered this domain name in June 1996. Never went "live" with it until now, so it was an education to update my domain registration and hosting data.
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- John Reynolds, April 24, 2002
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