Web Site Credits

Creating a web site of this complexity is no minor endeavour.  At a rough estimate there is well in excess of  6  man years effort involved to date ( Summer 97 -  Summer 08 ).  So how about a round of applause for:

Dramatis Personae ...

With the aid of ...

FrontPage  -   If you want to design more than a trivial site you should consider this package.  It allows someone with reasonable Office skills to maintain a complex web site.  But its not all a bed of roses  -  give us a call if you are thinking of starting a web site and we will show you how to avoid a few of the more unexpected pitfalls.

Access  2003  -  Is used to support the Micro-Search database.  It has some nice features but despite all that Microsoft claim its html output is pathetic.   The latest version of the web site is hosted on a Windows 2000 server and uses Active Server Pages to format much of the data in the Information-Zone.

Paintshop Pro 7 and CORAL 8  - for the more interesting graphics.

Our  Menu system - is built using The Ultimate Dropdown Menu Java Script package and is available from http://www.brothercake.com/dropdown/

Our Search Engine  -  is provided by FreeFind.  For more information on this service,  please refer to their web page at:  http://www.freefind.com

WebSite-Watcher - allows us to keep an eye on all the Micro-Search chip manufacturers and to keep the database up to date when they produce data on new chips.  its available from http://www.aignes.com/

The Currency Converter  -  a free web service from Xenon Laboratories.  For more information on this service,  please refer to their Web page at: http://www.xe.net/currency/about.htm

NetWeaver now host our web site on a W2000 Server and so far we have been very impressed with their speed although support and service leave something to be desired.

ACTINIC powers our web shop for more details of their package visit http://www.actinic.com/.

Site Statistics ...

HTML Pages:	395
Local Server driven pages:	1065
Web Shop Pages:	103
External Links:	1380
Size:	60 Mbytes
Average visitors/day:	1,300
Total visitors to date:	> 1,500,000
Bandwidth used:	2.0 GBytes/month