About This Website

Who's bright idea was this?

This website has been designed and developed entirely by Frank M. Taylor. You can call him Paceaux.

Where did you get the graphics?

All of the graphics used in this site were created using Adobe® Fireworks®.

How did you code it?

The HTML and CSS for this website were developed first using Microsoft® Notepad, then it was transferred to templates in Adobe Dreamweaver®. Content is managed using Adobe Contribute®.

This website uses Javascript and Jquery. The Jquery animations use Spritely, which was developed by Artlogic Media Ltd. If those birds on the homepage looked goofy, sorry. Chrome doesn't always like that plugin.

Terry Acker (The Ackernaut) has some very cool techniques for input fields which I used in my own contact form.

Your site looks bad in Windows 98  / ME / Netscape

It's not me, it's you. If you're still browsing the web in IE 6, please stop. It's like driving with leaded gasoline.

Why does the site look bad in Internet Explorer?

The site is structurally sound in Internet Explorer 7 and 8. It isn't pretty, though. This is because they don't support CSS3 - a newer way to style HTML. While rounded corners and box shadows are standard issue for other browsers, I have to add extra HTML and create graphics to give you those same effects. A car dealer doesn't put last year's model in the show room.

When applicable, I made sure that the CSS3 worked in Chrome, FireFox, Opera, and Safari. Some stuff, like gradients, just aren't available yet in Opera.

How did you test the site?

I use independent testers for my own site, and for all other sites. An independent Quality Assurance team catches stuff I'm more likely to miss. This website was tested in IE7, IE8, Google Chrome 4.1, Safari 5.0, Opera 9.8, and FireFox 3.6. 

Your graphics are pretty sweet,  you're cool if I borrow them, right?

All images are owned by Frank M. Taylor, DBA Made by Paceaux. If you wish to use them, just ask—don't steal. If you ask nicely, I'll give you the original files. I have a very, very good lawyer who would enjoy making your life miserable. And I'd pay him for it, so he'd enjoy it twice as much.