The Trailblazers' website was launched shortly after the
domain,
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registered in May 2003. Initially the site was hosted on
personal web space of the webmaster with web pages were coded
using Netscape Composer (NC). Many of these pages are still
being used.
Today EditPad Lite (Freeware) and Microsoft Notepad are used
for making changes and creating new pages. The change was
made since NC, a 16-bit appication, will not run on a vanilla
64-bit Win 7 PC. While other NC type composers
were tried, none had the Look & Feel, and
simplicity of NC, a decision was made to use basics tools, at
least for the time being.
Along the way the webmaster completed a free newbie's online
HTML class sponsored by Hewlett-Packard. Occasionally effort
is expended to eliminate W3C Validation errors, another
learning activity. Among other things, the webmaster is
thinking about incorporating simple CSS (Cascading Style
Sheets).
Today site hosting is through a reseller who lives in New
Jersey. In addition he is a Drupal Developer, a PHP Coder,
and an active square dancer,
Site design goals:
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Strive to make the text passages on the site highly
readable by using a large size type face, mostly black
on a lightly textured white background.
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Organize and edit such to present "useful" content.
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Endeavor to code pages to load quickly.
Suggestions and comments are welcome.
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