Where herein, the author notes who to thank, why this site has its odd name, and some notes on webpage design.

Credits

  • All photographs are, unless otherwise stated, taken and scanned by myself.
  • Fred Langa's LangaList definitely deserves a tip of the hat; without it I wouldn't know as much as I do now. :P
  • The Internet Tourbus introduced me to Fred Langa and a lot of other wonderful internet resources.
  • Analog X has a load of freeware, some of which has been indispensible for this site.
  • IrfanView was used on all images in this site at some point or another.
  • J-Album was used to create the photo album sections of this site.
  • ODS is what lets this site have its connection to the internet.
  • Xampp powers this site.
  • Pegasus Mail and Mercury power mail services for this site and the mailing lists.
  • Celtic or Knot has provided some of the background art for this site.
  • DeKnopwas used to create the buttons on this site.
  • Mozilla's Composer was a great help in the WYSIWYG editing of the pages and getting the jist across of what I was doing
  • Document made with NvuNVU has been another great, free, WYSIWG editor that I've been using lately.
  • Notepad++ is one of my newest favoritest free text editors - used for much of the revamping of HTML.
  • ToniArt's EasyHtml and EditPad Lite were also used for writing the HTML and javascripts herein.
  • The Javascript Source gave many javascript ideas and links
  • Most of this freeware I came across thanks to Pricelessware.
  • jAssing Consulting jAssing Consulting helped me out with the list distribution, and has many services available for computer professionals.  Check 'em out!
  • Site promotion is done by SelfPromotion.com. If you want, you can use the site for free -- if you like it, pay what YOU think it's worth! Excellent service.
  • License Plate Creator - good times for everyone!

Why is this site called Faith Collapsing?

Simple, really. It was the name of my WWIV bulletin board back from 1996 to 2001. Some of the old ANSI welcome screens survived the transition onto the web, and can still be found here.

Which doesn't answer the question, really. Yes, it's the title of a Ministry song, but there's more to it than that. That was a pretty rough period of my life, and one where I wrestled a lot with the concept of faith, the concept of God. My faith did collapse - but like most things that collapse, it grew back again.

So how did you make this site? Why did you do it this way?

I learned a lot of my programming (and HTML) from looking at other people's examples - and seeing in what interesting ways I could put them together. You can see another example of my recent work at The Wenches A Wailin' Fansite or The Immaculate Conception PREP page, or the Immaculate Conception website.

I do not use frames on my sites. This is largely because I used to use a non-frames compatible browser - and know some who still do (for various reasons). Further, the frames-within-frames thing just ends up driving me nuts.

Graphics are intentionally segregated as much as possible and optimized both for those who are still on dial-up and for general ease of use. I've tried to make the navigation on the right side of the page as intuitive and easy to follow as I can. Java, Javascript, flash, and other bells and whistles are minimized for similar reasons - I want you to look at content, not some flash animation.

The right-sided-column format aids search engine placement, as the actual content of the page will be seen in the synopsis on the sites (hopefully).

I use freeware stuff whenever available; there are many sites out there that have some, but a great resource is Sourceforge for open-source software.

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