Credits

Due to the nature of the internet images (GIFs and JPGs) are discovered, the have been photographed by someone at an unknown time, by an unknown person, scanned from an unknown source, posted and re-posted, many 'good sites' are 'reverse engineered' these days, there are even books that tell you of good sites, then tell you how to copy them. To me this is flattery, but as an example the UK has some of the most OTT (over the top) copyright© laws in existence (as with many of its other laws), and implies if you personally have not created an image then you must not use it - not the case elsewhere in the world.

Every efforts has been made to gain permission from image owners before their use, as I have given permission for images from this site. It is blatant thief is a bit insulting/hurtful, a quick 'is it ok' cost nothing and is a polite. However in the real world - mouse button 2 can save any picture you see on the net to your own PC for you own use, every Magazine that you buy, you can scan or copy, the police have other things to do than stand by every photocopier in the land.

The images on this site are composed of those that have come on CD-ROM from packages such as QuickSite, Net Fusion Objects etc, also from professional photo collections (permission given), members submitting their image for the advert, and other unknown postings from the net. Any in the later category, the original owner of the image may request the removal of the image, via an email to Topdog1@thedoghouse.org with the file name and the page that it was used in. If this was a profit making organisation I would offer to pay for images, but sadly we are not.

The tool crafts the sculpture. A FrontPage site looks like a FrontPage site same to with Dreamweaver etc. Only having many tools to hand can you craft what your imagination beholds not what the product dictates. Think what do I want to build then how I will build it - not what can I do with 'this' and your imagination is the first in the straight jacket!

Paint Shop Pro

Costs a lot less than Adobe Photoshop (is the best), is very powerful, conforms to Adobe's Plug-ins standard (eg get KAI Power tools). There are plenty of books on the market that can help with Graphics on the web.  

Adobe

Makers of rock solid software - that is 100% consistent throughout; contains no nasty surprises. All their software is 'industry workhorse' industry uses it to get a job done and fast. This is functional Engineering at its best.

• Photoshop7 and After Effects for image  processing on this site.
• Illustrator 10  and fontography for graphics and the font work.

Macromedia

Macromedia also have a low software quality - get used to saving your work often ready for when it crashes without a trace.

• Dreamweaver MX
• Flash MX

Microsoft

I have a radically low opinion of Microsoft Quality.

I can cite example after example of operating systems that works for years without failure that contrast with Windows failing every few hours. But we still buy the crap  - who is the fool :)

• Front Page 2002
• dotNET
• Office 2002 + integration
• SQL Server 2000
• Windows Advanced Server 2000

Altova

Dribble Dribble dribble  -- nuff said

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