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From time to time, I get mail from people asking what the Beer Info Source is running on or how it is built and maintained. So, here's a quick page with some of the details. Please note that this does not constitute an endorsement for any product(s). These just happen to work well for me.
Product references are linked to Web pages where available.
"Badges? We don' need no steenking badges!"
- Server -
- O/S: BSDI Unix on Intel Pentium
- Web: NCSA
- Search: SWISH
- Net Link: 10Mbps Ethernet to 45Mbps DS3 hub
- Development -
- O/S: Windows NT on Intel Pentium
- Text Editor: UltraEdit-32
- HTML Editor: HomeSite
- Graphics: Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw
- Scanning: Agfa StudioScan IIsi
- Net Link: 28.8Kbps PPP
- Quality Assurance -
- HTML Validator: CSE 3310
- Link Validator: WebAnalyzer
- Browsers: Netscape Navigator
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Opera
- Sun HotJava
- NCSA Mosaic
- Lynx
All pages are designed to be usable with image-loading turned off for faster access.
Page layouts and graphics are checked at screen resolutions from 640x480 to 1024x768 and color depths from 256 to 16 million colors with various window geometries.
The HTML 3.2 specification is upheld throughout with no Netscape or Microsoft extensions. Well...almost none. OK, there are a few exceptions:
- I use the entities © and ™ (instead of © and ™) because they render properly for a larger audience.
- I add the "WRAP" attribute to text boxes to force Netscape to actually wrap text.
- I add standard image attributes on images used for form submit buttons.
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