Credits

Here’s a list of applications & people I’d like to acknowledge.

WordPress. Sophisticated yet extremely user friendly blogging software. If you can email you can blog with WordPress. Besides being free there’s hundreds of plugins that increase the power and usefulness of WordPress.

Firefox 3.0 is the best browser to surf. Speeds are better than IE. Built in spell checker is a must for someone like me.

For web designing I use the following programs;

Microsoft FrontPage 2003. I do most my web editing in FP. .css (cascade style sheet) is done in all text. It would be nice to do it on a graphical editor. I like FP but I’m keeping my options open for something better.

Adobe Photoshop. I can’t live without “photochop” now. No other graphic editor comes close. I find alien skin plugins to be helpful.

Adobe Flash. Flash is a very powerful program that allows you to really automate the web. There’s a couple problems using flash though. The load time can be excessive and it’s not easy to make web templates that are customizable from flash.

Notepad. Yes that silly little text editor you have no idea what to use it for. Notepad is great for making quick .html editing.

SmartFTP. This little progy upload and downloads files to the server. I like this program over other FTPs because it remembers all my sessions. So I can quickly edit different files and upload to different servers without looking up IP, user IDs, and passwords.

GoDaddy.com. Big props to GoDaddy. They’re the web hosting company with the “GoDaddy Girls”. But that’s not why I’ve used their products for over two years. It’s their customer service. GoDaddy’s service is amazing, especially in the computer age when customer service is horrible. I’ve never been on hold longer then 3 minutes and I get to a live person for tech support immediately.

Brian Gardner. A rl personal friend and bro. Brian is the creator of the Revolution themes, which Brian has graciously allowed me to use for my web projects. We have a relationship that inspires each other but mostly he inspires me.