Webmaster: Phil Groom
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First I'd like to thank Sue, my wife (and the most wonderful woman on the planet),
for her patience whilst I've worked on these sites. I know that I've pushed it
to the limit sometimes (far too many late nights) — thank you for sticking with me!
Next, thanks to all those who've made contributions, offered encouragement, and given tips & suggestions: you know who you are, and without you these sites wouldn't exist (well, somebody has to share the blame). |
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Bibliography | General Info | Site Construction Software |
1) Groomsville Websites
The name says it all. |
St Lawrence Church, Eastcote The Church where Sue served her second curacy. It's a very warm and welcoming place — be sure to call in if ever you're in the area. (Website no longer under Groomsville management). | |||
Absolutely Mac started out as my online freeware archive. In September 2000 I decided to reconstruct it as a public website. A non-profit-making, purely personal project (although if anyone's crazy enough to want to buy shares in it, please get in touch). |
Phil's Home Pages: where it all began... ...and where your website could begin too!! Check out Phil's Web Design Services today! | |||
St Matthew's, Yiewsley |
 The Council of Christians and Jews, Hillingdon |
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2) Site Construction Software
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Groomsville websites are handcoded using BBEdit,
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| Special thanks to Yves Piguet for the amazing image converter, clip2gif.
If you can copy it to the clipboard, you can convert it to a gif with clip2gif - and that's barely scratching the surface of clip2gif's capabilities. It could be the only graphics program you'll ever need for the web! Simple to use, very effective and highly efficient - but best of all, it's free. Download it now (226k) if you'd like to try it for yourself. Full documentation is included with the download - be sure to read it. |
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A few older bits of the site were initially thrown together with Netscape Composer,
but then needed a fair bit of tweaking in BBEdit to get them right... Tedious but fun (some of us have a weird notion of fun). Best browsers to use on this site: Safari or Firefox. |
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3) General Site Info
Hosted by Freenetname
Originally constructed using a PowerBook 1400 with a Sonnet Crescendo G3 upgrade, running Mac OS 8.5.1
Maintained for a while using a Blue Dalmatian iMac G3 running Mac OS X 10.3.6,
now with an iBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.9. Who knows where or what next?
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Most of the animated gifs used in the Wild & Wacky pages (and a few used elsewhere on this site)
are courtesy of Future Publishing, distributed as royalty-free clip art on various magazine cover CD's.
Apologies to anyone who feels left out due to missing
acknowledgements or any other accidental omissions — no slight intended!
Please get in touch and I'll make sure credit's given where it's due when the site's next updated.
Probably tomorrow...
