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There are a number of different web services and resources that have been proven to be useful over the years. A great number of these are put onto the web for free (or at very little cost) by their authors.
Among the more noteworthy are:
Individuals and Organizations
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Jordan Russell
for his wonderful "Inno Setup" builder, which was used
to package all WebAmphibian.Com productions for distribution on the web and CD.
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Bjornar Henden
for his work on "ISTool," an Inno Setup preprocessor system.
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Marc Hoffmann
for his wonderful tool "INNO Setup Forms Designer," used to create special
screens for the Inno Setup builder.
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Helge Klein
for his tool "SetACL," which is used to set some of the directory
permissions as part of the installation process.
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Matthieu Godon
for his package "Quick Menu Builder," used to generate most of the
installer splash screens used on WebAmphibian.Com CDs.
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Ian D. Mead
for his wonderful editor, "UltraEdit," which has been used exclusively for
a number of years here at WebAmphibian to edit virtually all text files.
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Nova Vizija
for "eyeDropper 3.0," a wonderful color matching and alignment tool.
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the GIMP
is a powerful image manipulation program for editing, retouching, and authoring.
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Companies
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HiddenSoft
has a wonderful tool called "AutoIt" that is used to encapsulate otherwise
viewable files in a neat runtime wrapper for automation purposes.
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JASC Software
for their wonderful product "Paint Shop Pro," which was used
to generate most all of the images.
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DebugMode
for their wonderful product "Wink," which is used to provide
program walk throughs to the web as Macromedia Shockwave Flash
presentations.
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Powerbullet
for the "PowerBullet Presenter," a poor-man's Macromedia Shockwave Flash
generator (it's used on our front page, at the bottom, to provide the
transitions, etc.).
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Microsoft Corporation
for creating a number of packages. Chief among them are:
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The VBScript
system, used in the installation process to finalize
some of the web site configuration tasks.
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The HTML Help System,
which is how many of our productions display information on
various help topics.
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Any digitally generated voice you hear played is
most likely "LH Michelle," courtesy of the
Speech API
(SAPI) SDK, Version 5.1.
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References
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The World Wide Web Consortium is
the group that has defined many of the standards within which the world wide web operates.
Among these standards are:
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Netscape used to hold the
standards documents for JavaScript and a number of other technologies. Last checked,
these links were all dead.
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robotstxt.org describes the
web indexing files used to control "web crawling" robots.
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