I am thankfull to all who helped my life in general, and to those who contributed to my web page specifically. Please visit My Favorite Links, Audio Files, Glossary, and Site Index pages.
- General:
- Dr. Vahid Lotfi taught a class in Netscape Composer and ignited my interest in learning more about web sites.
- Sidney Horton shared so much of what he has learned.
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HyperText Markup Language pages provided detailed information on how to write HTML from which I learned a great deal.
- I took a number of the needed conversion factors from Merriam-Webster Online and from their weight table.
- My list of states is from the United States Postal Service and the list of Canadian provinces is from the Canada Post site for my pull-down menu.
- My header quotes are all from the King James Bible.
- My son proofread my work and suggested quite a few places for improvement because he thinks I ai'nt no gud spelller.
- Many thanks to Yahoo for their maps.
- I took the list of famous people's birthdays from the Kids Parties Connection to use on my calendar page.
- My Calendar page uses birthstone information from Mrs. Gottrocks Events or Sales.
- Properties for the elements on my Periodic Table of the Elements page were taken from a similar page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_chemical_elements.
- Programming:
- I learned to greet my visitors according to the time of day at Stupid Web Tricks.
- To open a pop-up tip window, I modified ideas from Jamie Jawarski.
- I learned at Rajesh Vijayakumar's site how to keep my "Last updated" line correct without effort if the server will allow. I added code to print something usefull (which you must keep up-to-date) even if the server is not being co-operative.
- I visited The JavaScript Source to learn how to preload images to make my site display more quickly and to display browser and page information.
- I found the book "Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web" by Elizabeth Castro and the associated web site very informative.
- My "Account Number Verify" page is based on information from Credit Card Number Verification by David Turley.
- Garreth Galligan gave me the idea to set the focus to the first field of my forms when they load.
- To send an e-mail and bring up a "thank you" page, I based my code on some from Ash Hardisteer.
- I pulled some information from WS Abstract on displaying browser/page information.
- From Bookmarklets.com I adapted an item that allowed me to create my example of how to e-mail the source code of a page, and took the basics for my BookMarklets page.
- Graphics:
- My animated fleur-de-lis images are from the clipartcastle site.
- MediaBuilder provided the chalk background sometimes used on this site, my kissing penguins, and the upper navigation arrows. I further processed the arrows through netmechanic to reduce their size.
- Sometimes I prefer the satin background pulled from the Candystryper's Sensual Satin Backgrounds champagne.jpg file.
- The lion picture is from The Tyger.
- The picture of me was taken by Dr. Lotfi during the Netscape Composer class.
- I made the lower navigation and audio buttons, the "Y2K OK" and "No Y2K Bug" spots, and the "No JavaScript found" and "JavaScript is ready" images using MS-Paint, converted the .bmp files to .gif format using PolyView from polybytes, processed the navigation items into buttons at MediaBuilder's ButtonMaker, then reduced the file sizes at the netmechanic site.
- I made the dots and filled squares on my Graphics page using MS-Paint and then reduced the files sizes at the netmechanic site.
- The pointing hand used in my "you are here" lines is from the 321clipart.com site and was edited using Polyview.
- The usa_map.gif and canada.gif images and their associated coordinates were taken from http://www.ramada.com/Ramada/control/hotel_top.
- Music:
- Thanks to Midi Country for the "Seven Spanish Angels," "Write Myself a Letter," "Have I Told You Lately that I Love You," and "Somewhere My Love" midi files.
- I took the "Scotland the Brave" midi and lyrics from Rhonda Bergman's web site at the University of Michigan at Dearborn.
- From mseek I copied the "I will Follow Him," "Gilligan's Island," and "Get Me to the Church on Time" midis.
- The "Edelweiss," "Hey Jude," "Sounds of Silence," "Matchmaker," "1812 Overture," and "House of the Rising Sun" midis are from Duane Bristow's site.
- I found the "Theme from Bonanza" at the musica page.
- The "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," "William Tell Overture," "When you Wish Upon a Star," "Bare Necessities," "Kiss the Girl," "The Blue Danube Waltz," "Turkey in the Straw," "The Marriage of Figaro," and "Jambalaya" midis are from The Very Best MIDI site.
- My copy of the "Hallelujah Chorus" is from the Sarawak Music Society homepage.
- The "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)," "Daydream Believer," and "Candle in the Wind" midis are from the LeolaPA site.
- To get a copy of the "No Milk Today" midi, I visited the Big Nose Bird site.
- From ShoutHouse came my copies of "The Lonely Goatherd," "French National Anthem," and "Louie, Louie" midis.
- Jims Christmas Page 1998 provided the "Frosty the SnowMan," "Angels We have Heard on High," and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" midis.
- I took the "Do You Want to Know a Secret," "Workin' in the Coal Mine," "Eight Days a Week," "Build me up Buttercup," "Nowhere Man," and "All I have to do is Dream" midis from neritZ's Oldies Midi Files
- The "Dawning of the Age of Aquarius" midi is from D'Amor.
- "The Scottish Soldier" midi is from Scottish Radiance
- Ratings and Awards:
- I rated my site through SafeSurf and received the rating codes to put on my main page and the SafeSurf icon.
- I was given the RSACi icon and rating codes for my site for rating through the Recreational Software Advisory Council.
- My site has been checked for disability access with Bobby and was awarded their approval.
- The Any-Browser icon is from anybrowser.org for working to make my site viewable by all browsers.
- Bill Darling at Critical Mass liked my site well enough to award it.
