Antiweb Questionnaire Candidate - Mr. Malcolm Humes

What hardware do you use in HTML production?

Mostly PC 486 or Pentium. Sometimes a Sun. It all ends up on a Sun. Once there a lot of updates are just via dialup or ftp touchup of files I edit via ascii editors.

OS? Win 95 - sometimes unix. Rarely a Mac.

lately 14.4 from home, T3 from work! Need to get a 28.8.

Notepad, or lately Wordpad. Or unix shells.

Doing stuff by hand is a better way to understand the tags and not do silly things some programs do when you let them "think" for you.

Lview - less lately because it's 16 bit and seems to crash a lot on Win 95. I like it cause it's quick, small and nick for viewing and cropping stuff, compressing JPegs, converting.

Thumbs Plus for catalogging but didn't register yet and might not, seems a bit buggy but the best to do fast thumbnails and file hierarchy maintenance of large numbers of graphic files.

Graphic Workshop for Windows - was using to catalog but it's got a clumsy front end. Is nice for batch conversions, batch resizings, etc. Seems less versatile for cropping and minor edits.

Polyview - nice 32bit fast viewer helper but limited in edit/conversion capabilities. Still, since Lview starting hanging I mostly use this for default windows file associations for many graphics types.

Corel PhotoPaint - paid $100 for a version of this and it's nice for a lot of effects, which I barely use - photoshop like feathering, motion, etc etc .

Aldus Photostyler - came with my ROM drive, has some nice effects.

Altamira Composer - another ROM bundle, has some effects the others don't, use Kai's Power Tools filters -limited in file input (won't load a GIF or JPEG).

HSC's Digital Morph - anotehr bundle and really fun for morphs - also good for outputting animated frames of morphs and converting file sequences to avi or mpg animations.

Kai's Power Tools - another bundle, I barely use. I want Bryce for PC!

Photoshop - rarely, the 2.? version I had won't run under Win 95.

ack! almost none, the PC soundcard is still playing dead. I'm about to start trying to do something about that.

Um, just freebie or packages viewers for avi/mpeg or quicktime, I forget which even.

Netscape's Gold authoring tool. Want to look at Blackbird and some VRML and Java tools too... Worldbuilder, Home Space Builder.

JPEG or GRaphic Workshop for Windows still seem the most useful for me for fast load and re-saves - and GWS's batch modes are cool...

HTML in general when possible.
HTML 3.0 or Netscape HTML when I feel a design desire to.
AOL sometimes.
often netscape specific. Sometimes AOL specific or compatible tested.
Some works need to be across the board. CGI animation is only Netscape, as are frames right now.

It's not so much what I design for - I just tend to have my screen in a 600x800 screen size- which I think tends to make my work get mostly proofed at this size. I only recently realized this might be an issue to consider! I want to come up with some "benchmark test pages"!

I think the under 100K max graphic rule of thumb I have makes most of my work 14.4 compatible - really I am loathe to put anything over 50K in a page. Some of my animations seem to be designed for hi-bandwidth cause they look ugly and slow even at 14.4. Put I get pissed at slow loading pages so I tend to design for fast loads.

HTML
Netscape's Enhancements notes

Graphics:

Yahoo's link to the color picking page - I always forget the links and just drive there through Netscape's creating web pages links.

Audio

Dave's 'True Multimedia' chapter of some book is one of the most useful all around audio resrouces, but not up to date as far as real-time. Hyperreal.com's page have useful tools info - the folks there are very audio active.

Video

Really haven't done shit with video. Have any of us?

Cgi-bin Scripting

Yahoo, Meng Wong's perl script archive

Design :

design what???