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The single most important thing one has to take in mind when approaching the task of building a web site is that of content. In our case, having used a computer at home in the last seven years content was plentiful.

This site is hosted by Geocities, a "free" web host. Geocities, which is now owned by Yahoo, generates its revenue by placing a small add on every page.

To build  the site we use Microsoft Front Page 2000, a web authoring program. While being feature rich, the program has some problems, consequently, we had to dig into the HTML code fairly fast. Furthermore, the web publishing wizard, the Microsoft Front Page 2000 module that posts files from your PC to the web hosting server is not reliable. We thus needed to use FTP to transfer files from our PC to the web host. The FTP client we chose was WS_FTP LE , a light and easy to use freeware dedicated to non business users.

Having had to cut  HTML we used Tidy, a cool and free utility that checks HTML. 

To learn how to use Front Page we read the book Special Edition using Microsoft FrontPage 2000. The book gives a comprehensive description of the program. It also describes how to use it and how not. On every subject there is a designer section  where the limits of the product are discussed.

Fairly fast we realised that a certain scripting language is needed to maintain the consistent look of all the pages in our web. We had to choose between VBScript and JavaScript. We thought that JavaScript would work on more browsers so we have chosen it. This O'reilly book has excellent description of the language as well as a comprehensive reference manual. This book also addresses the computability issues between Netscape an Internet Explorer.

We found plenty of JavaScript example in the Java Script Source, The JavaScript Source is an excellent JavaScript resource with tons of "cut and paste" JavaScript examples for your web pages. All for free!

We found the themes of Microsoft front page hard to work with, we have decided to uses cascading style sheet (CSS). Dave Raggett's Introduction to CSS was very useful in demystifying that subject.

Our guest book was created with the html GEAR  a web site which gives you a free, fully functioning guest book in three minutes. Please do not forget to sign it!

To get the pictures of the front pages of the books, we have joined the amazon.com associates program. If you purchase a book by following one of the links scattered in this web page, you will support this site.

The material on this page is property of the Ottensooser. The web site What is copyright explains this subject very clearly. You are permitted to copy from this site as long as you acknowledge this in your document and sign our guest book.

The photographs on the site were taken by us on a regular 35mm SLR. We used the services of our local photo shop to load them on CDs.

The moving images were taken from the animation factory.

To publish the site on the net we recorded it on as many search engines as we could. So far it worked only on google.

By now you may have benefited from our Web site, so please sign our guest book.