About this Site
These pages have been online since 1994.
Currently, they are hosted at www.pair.com -- I've been with them for many years and would highly recommend them to anyone.
Graphics were done with Adobe Photoshop.
Site management is with BBEdit, the best text editor I've ever used (including emacs!), and a set of auxilliary scripts on my Macintosh Powerbook G4 (OS X is wonderful):
The page consistency is managed via a set of standard includes from bbedit. Each page has an _include-top.html which does all the HTML headers, backgrounds, and table setup, and includes _include-toc.html, which controls the left sidebar. It also has _include-bottom.html, which closes out the tables, adds the signature, and closes the HTML.
I have a script that will add the includes to pages that were generated from other applications (e.g. photobooks), and after that bbedit keeps them in sync too. Everything is done local to the current directory, and most files are hard links back to the original, except where they need to vary and then I break the hard link and create a new file. The headers and backgrounds are done similarly.
When all is said and done, rsync gets my local copy and the remote copy on pair.com in sync.
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