Nog Web Tools
You too can fake up a professional look!
Okay, so this site isn't the most beautiful thing in the world. (If it
were, surely there would be fifteen popup windows on your screen right
now.) In case you want to know how we work our web magic
(hah!) here's a nice list of tools and other thingies that
were used.
- Page templates were generated on demand with a program I wrote
long ago called cgen. I'd open-source it,
but it's so simple that it should be left as an exercise to the
reader. :-)
- All pages were lovingly hand-written with the vi text editor, nvi
flavor.
- If you guessed that we use an Apache server here, you'd be
right. Did all the .shtml pages tip you off,
or was it something else?
- Pages were playtested with at least two very different
browsers (Opera, w3m, Mozilla, lynx, OmniWeb), at least one of
which is text-only.
- The various little graphical buttons were snarfed from the
organizations to which they link.
- The Nog logo was designed and tested in Ghostscript's
implementation of PostScript
(honk { you stacks love } if), converted to EPSI by Ghostscript,
and then to PNG format with ImageMagick.
You are enlightened now. I hope I've proven that it is indeed possible
to create a decent-looking web site by using none of the fancy-shmancy
HTML writing or graphic-mucking tools out there.
$Id: tools.shtml,v 1.6 2002/06/07 18:28:25 tony Exp $