Here is some stuff for all the ones that are interested in some of the technical background
of this website.
Knöddelmeister comes along a long way. The first version of my website was born October 1998. This very first edition was a collection of everything. The design was rather terrible - blinking and rotating graphics everywhere. But despite of that, this site was my pride.
After a while my HTML skills got better, and so did my design skills. A graphical part moved to a new website, and the rest shrunk more and more until only the guinea pig part was left. The guinea pig site moved from Geocities to Hypermart, Freedom2Surf and finally to it's very own domain, now even with subdomain.
With the improvement of my web design skills the site became easier to update and maintain. It evolved from purely static websites (pure HTML) through interim solutions to a dynamically generated site (PHP and MySQL). The newest version is using CSS1 and CSS2 for formatting and layout. It should be usable with whatever browser you surf by. It might be though that it doesn't look exactly the way it should. This will depend on the extend the browser can handle style sheets. Netscape 4.x is known to have a very spotty 'understanding' of stylesheets, but all modern browsers should be just fine.
The newest version of Knoeddelmeister was created under Linux. This includes code as well as graphics. Sometimes I used Win4Lin and CrossOver Office®. The photos are all rescanned, or I'm in the process of doing so. For the interested ones I compiled a list of the programs I used.
I tested the site with the following browsers:
Knöddelmeister comes along a long way. The first version of my website was born October 1998. This very first edition was a collection of everything. The design was rather terrible - blinking and rotating graphics everywhere. But despite of that, this site was my pride.
After a while my HTML skills got better, and so did my design skills. A graphical part moved to a new website, and the rest shrunk more and more until only the guinea pig part was left. The guinea pig site moved from Geocities to Hypermart, Freedom2Surf and finally to it's very own domain, now even with subdomain.
With the improvement of my web design skills the site became easier to update and maintain. It evolved from purely static websites (pure HTML) through interim solutions to a dynamically generated site (PHP and MySQL). The newest version is using CSS1 and CSS2 for formatting and layout. It should be usable with whatever browser you surf by. It might be though that it doesn't look exactly the way it should. This will depend on the extend the browser can handle style sheets. Netscape 4.x is known to have a very spotty 'understanding' of stylesheets, but all modern browsers should be just fine.
The newest version of Knoeddelmeister was created under Linux. This includes code as well as graphics. Sometimes I used Win4Lin and CrossOver Office®. The photos are all rescanned, or I'm in the process of doing so. For the interested ones I compiled a list of the programs I used.
I tested the site with the following browsers:
- Linux:
Opera 6, 7.x, Netscape 7, Konqueror 3.x, Mozilla 1.x, Firefox - Windows 2000:
Opera 6 + 7.x, Netscape 4.79 + 4.08 + 7.x, Mozilla 1.x, IE 5.x, IE 6.0, Firefox - Windows XP:
Opera 7.x, Netscape 4.79 + 4.08 + 7, Mozilla 1.x, IE 6 - Windows 98:
Netscape 4.79 + 7, IE 5.x, IE 6.0
- Linux:
Quanta Plus (Opensource - and very good! My favorite editor under Linux)
- Windows (via CrossOver Office):
HTML-Editor Phase 5 (Free for personal use, not Opensource, German)
- Linux:
GIMP (awesome software, Opensource. Version 2 just rocks. Comes also in a Windows flavor)
- Windows (via Win4Lin and CrossOver Office):
Paint Shop Pro (One of my favorites. Runs fine under Win4Lin, but not with CrossOver Office),
SmartSaver Pro (Great Sofware to slice graphics and save them in web formats.)
- Linux:
VueScan (This software supports the Acer/Benq ScanWhit 2720 under Linux! You'll need a regular SCSI card though, the one that ships with the scanner doesn't work under Linux. This software also runs on Windows and MAC)
