Lest anyone think I don't know what I'm doing, here are my design notes.

1. I don't have to be too snazzy.
   I am not some large corporation that needs to wow you at every turn. I could if I wanted to, but I have more important things in my life right now.
2. Credit where credit is due.
   All photos, or sketches produced by anyone other than me are credited to their respective authors in the alternative text for the image. The practical upshot of which is that if you hover your mouse over an image, a tooltip will tell you who made it, providing you have a capable browser. Where applicable, clicking on an image will take you to the artist's site.
3. Use of banners to avoid popup windows. It's annoying to look at, and is almost always guaranteed to clash with something, but it's better than popups.
4. Basic black. (Nothing else to say)

I've had to ditch the "Scriptless" rollover buttons approach because too many browsers just couldn't handle the scriptless image pre-caching trick I was using.  It worked great on the local machine with IE4/5, but it just wasn't doing well in the real world.  I'm using Frontpage Hover buttons for now because they don't require me to put a lot of code on each page.  This allows me to "include" my navbar at the bottom of each page without having to put in "support" code on each and every page.

As for production. All graphic images are produced using Corel PhotoPaint 8.0.
At the time of this writing, that pretty much consists of the buttons at the bottom of the screen. The images of me are simple scans, and so far I haven't done any touch-up work to any of them.

HTML construction is handled by Microsoft's Frontpage 2000.
Why? Because I'm licensed through my job, and I have better things to spend my money on.
However, all fine-tuning is done by hand.

Site design, construction, destruction, folding, spindling, and mutilating (C) 1999-2001 Mel Grubb II

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