Duologica Site Technical Specs
This site has been carefully developed in adherence to several web design standards as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3). You can learn more about these standards and the W3 itself at www.w3.org.
Markup and Programming
HTML, the markup language of the Web, has gone through several revisions and updates since its introduction. This site is compliant with the W3’s XHTML 1.1 DTD for extensible HTML. This DTD is the latest available.
This site also uses JavaScript for minor programming, mostly related to pop-up windows and the like. In addition, the site uses Server-Side Includes (SSI) for persistent information like page footers. The site is meant to be fast, so there is no use of Flash, Shockwave or any similar technology, nor there are any large, heavy images to download. In total, the site uses four very small images that consume less than 4KB each.
Style Sheets
Style Sheets or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are designed to allow the content of a web site to remain separate from its appearance on the page. This in turn provides for better usability on the Web, as it gives users more control over the content they see and it gives authors the ability to display their content across platforms as they intended the content to be seen.
This site is compliant with the W3’s CSS2 Recommendation for Cascading Style Sheets. This recommendation is the latest available. It further makes little use of tables, striving to use only CSS for positioning objects on each page.
Browser Compatibility
Because the standards with which this site complies are the latest available, not all web browsers in use today are capable of displaying the site as the authors intended. In particular, users of older Netscape Navigator browsers (especially versions 4.x) and users of Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.x may have problems viewing this site as it was intended. All users are encouraged to upgrade to Internet Explorer 6 for Windows or to Netscape 6.2 for Windows. This site has been successfully tested on those browsers. Please note that this site has not been tested with the Macintosh versions of any browsers.
Tools
This site was developed using Allaire HomeSiteTM for the HTML code and the CSS, and Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe® ImageReadyTM for the images.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following people for the support, tips and ideas they provided us in the development of this site through their own sites and resources: Jeff Heuer at dcnstrctr, Eric Costello at glish, Rob Chandanais at BlueRobot, Kevin McLean at beachdrive, Ed Bellis at Fluent Interactive, Mike Hall at BrainJar, the folks at A List Apart and those at The CSShark.
Contact Us
If you find any problems with this site or have any questions about it, please contact “web (at) duologica (dot) com” with the details.
