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THE PHOTOS:
All the photographs you find on
this site are my own work. As I stated at the front door, I'm an amateur
photographer and always will be. I do this for the enjoyment of the
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EOS SLR camera with a few lens options and sometimes various flash and filters.
Many of the photos on this site were scanned from the original prints. As I
discovered, it's not unusual to shoot dozens of rolls of film and only find a
few shots that are keepers. In this regard, I've come to appreciate the
flexibility offered by a good graphic software for adding those finishing
touches. Also, more recently I invested in a Sony DSC-P92 5 megapixel digital
camera. So far, I'm quite impressed with the quality of the images and prints
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THE
GRAPHICS:
I had a lot of fun with this
part and I hope you do too. Almost all of the graphics you see on this site
(the headers, the rooms, the animated icons, the menu choices) were all
designed from scratch. I learned quite a bit about Adobe Photoshop 6.0 during
the process and it turned out to be a nice tool for graphics editing and
design. |
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say I had a lot of fun because I got to create things. For example, this fern.
I wanted a fern on a pedestal. But do you think I could find any such image in
any clip-art archive? Not a chance. So I found a fern in a pot and I found a
bathroom sink on a pedestal and with a little cut and paste and some clean up I
had the graphic I wanted. I really did enjoy surfing image archives and
speciality sites (for furniture and fixtures) so I could build the rooms I
wanted. Although the site started only as a photo gallery, it ended up being a
bit of mini-mall with various points of interest. |
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THE CODE:
So what about the stuff behind
the screen? I used a little bit of everything on this project...HTML, java
applets javascript, CGI, frames, pop-ups, image maps, CSS, sounds, etc. I tried
to use all of these in a way that doesn't make the site overbearing and
difficult to use. All the bells and whisltes are nice, but not at the expense
of site functionality. |
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all, of the HTML code was written in HotMetal Pro 5.0. I'm very familiar with
free-hand HTML coding, but a project of this size required a more robust
editor. My first project manager was Microsoft Notepad (those were the good old
days). I must say I was very pleased and impressed with the capabilities of
HotMetal Pro. |
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So there you
have it. I really think I built this site for myself, but if you find something
you enjoy here as well then it makes it all worth while.
Thank you for
visiting. |
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