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About Susan & Shirley's Web Site
Purpose of Our Web Site
This is a very personal web site for the amusement of our family and friends; please be discreet in sharing it.
It's to share news, photos, and the like.
Getting Around
The navigation box at the top of each page takes you to the home page for each major section of our web site, and from there you'll find links to everything within that section.
Hosting / Address
From 1999 to May 2001, our Internet Service Provider offered free web space. Then they were bought out by Eearthlink, which doesn't. We moved the site to freeservers.com. This time, we were able to choose part of our URL (web address). It was extremely easy to move the site and everything seems to work fine. Hosting is not actually free; it costs $5/month.
Please Bookmark / make a Favorite of our new web address: http://susanandshirley.freeservers.com
Tools We Use to Make the Web Site
The key is Susan's latest Macintosh, a G3 PowerBook (laptop). She uses:
- Her photo albums as a source of photos for scanning
- Adobe GoLive to create the web pages and manage the site
- Her Minolta Maxxum 7xi camera to take the photos (which she dropped and killed in Cornwall in 2000, and replaced with a Minolta Maxxum XTsi that she doesn't like nearly as much)
- A Umax Astra 1220X scanner to scan the photos and other pictures (its software interface leaves a lot to be desired, but the price was right and it does scan well)
- Adobe PhotoDeluxe to manipulate the photos
- Adobe ImageReady (bundled with Adobe PhotoShop) to compress the photos (sometimes -- when she's able to take the time)
- GraphicConverter to convert TIFF's to GIF's and the like
- Dover books for the clip art. (I've been using Dover books for 30 years. There is no better source of copyright-free art.) The home page illustration is from Masterpieces of Art Nouveau Stained Glass Design. The picnic graphic is from Women: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth Century Sources. The graphic on the Celebrations page is from The Woman in Art Nouveau Decoration. New as of April 2002: Dover has a web site where you can sign up for their mailing list. Ask for the Pictorial Archive Series. Or follow this link to browse and purchase their entire collection of art books, including inexpensive books with CD-ROM.
- Dover has a bookstore in New York City (near Soho and Greenwich Village). If you are into embroidery, stained glass, decoupage, graphic arts, or music, spend a delightful couple of hours browsing their astounding collection of inexpensive high quality paperbacks. They are at:
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Dover Bookstore
180 Varick Street (between King and Charleton)
9th Floor
Telephone 212-255-6399
NOTE: they take checks but not credit cards
New!
In September of 1999, I discovered ArtToday, a web site that offers scads of clip art, icons, animations, bullets, backgrounds, etc. -- enough to make a real mess of your web site, if you can't resist temptation. For free, you have access to 40,000 choices, and for a modest annual fee, you can have lots more. That's where I got
- the whimsical photographer on the photo albums home page
- the watery capital letters I used for the canoeing headline
- the flickering jack o'lantern;
- the animated skateboard on the Trevor page
