DDB STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY, LLC
Acknowledgements and Recognition
MACROMEDIA'S HOMESITE HTML EDITOR® is one of the best in the business. It is simple
enough for the amateur to use, but has an extremely broad range of features including
simple wizards for tables, frames, lists and forms and support for script, CFML and ASP.
The editor is easily configurable to meet any users specific needs and has some cool
stuff under it's DHTML section including a neat multi-image fading slide viewing
java script that can be found under Cool Effects in our Web Design section.
FREEBUTTONS.COM® provided a number of the buttons and other
graphics used on the Web site. Their site has a very high quality buttons, bars and navigation icons
all organized into a large number of themes that can be used to provide a consistent
look and feel to any Web site. Their stuff is tasteful, which separates it from much
of the clip art buttons and bars out there.
DHTMLCentral® is a fine Web site and a great resource for cutting edge
Java, Javascript, and DHTML programs, several of which are used on our site. Thomas Brattli at www.bratta.com
wrote the Java/DHTMLfly outt menu program used as the main site navigation tool on our site. CoolMenus3 DHTML, the Brattli
menu program we use on the bottom of ourHome Pagee is a great, cross browser, menuing script with a number of options
for menu placement, orientation, appearance level depth and other features that are easily adjusted to meet the
needs of the most demanding Webmaster. Our sincere thanks to the brilliant Mr. Brattli, and Tom, we left all
your copyright and other code in place as stipulated in your agreement for use. We hope others will find this menuusefull and use it or one of it's many manifestations on their own site.
AUTOPLAY®Auto Playy CD-ROM software is used by the agency to prepare CD-ROMS with
high resolution TIFFS for clients. Theauto playy software is easy to use
and includes a configurable Splash screen that includes audio.
SITEMAPPER®
SiteMapper software from Trellian Software® analyzes the contents of a web site,
and creates a detailed map with an indexed listing of all resources
by page and category. It also validates all links, so that users
need never come across 'File not found' errors and broken images. This
tool has replaced hours of laborious manual site testing and quickly
identifies problems after major revisions. It is a highly cost effective
tool for Web site content analysis.
ACTIVE WEB TRAFFIC PRO®, Myrasoft's wonderful Web
Announce program may have helped you find us by pushing our Web site to the top of the listings for many search engines, both domestic and
International. The feature rich program makes it sooooo simple to submit the site to search engines,
FFA/Classifieds and Batch sites that we'd like to help them toot their horn by quoting them verbatim: Active Web Traffic "will automatically
register your Web site with over 300,000 search engines, directories, media
outlets, link pages, and what's new pages." The program "is the most popular and powerful
Web site promotion software package on the internet!" and we believe it. The program automatically generates doorway pages that group keywords
for any specified page(s), into a complete, Web publishable page that may be indexed to drive Web traffic directly at'cha. The program also generates
keywords for any specified page and appends them as a meta-tag. The program makes it easy to create hundreds of different profiles so we can announce
individual pages on our site. This helps us drive traffic directly to our most interesting and most popular pages. Oh, there's lots more to the program and we
could go on and on praising it's power and ease of use, but suffice it to say, Myra, we love ya.
WEB ALBUM CREATOR® filled a void that we
tried to fill with a dozen earlier products, but only after we found Galleria Software's Web Album Creator
did we finally realize a complete solution. The software easily takes a user identified group of JPEGS, GIFS
and other Web graphic files or even text and produces thumbs and a handsome HTML coded site with a narrow left
frame ofclick ablee thumbs that pop the original Web image in a tall, broad main frame. The program provides for
full customization. You can create captions, headings, backgrounds and adjust many features including the number
of rows and their depth in the thumb frame. They have several image storage, presentation and cataloging programs
that rank among the very best I have ever seen. Well worth the modest licensing fee.
ALBUMWEB PRO® from PhotoActions Software went into play on the
site augmenting and replacing Web Album Creator. It added some flexibility and pizazz not available in the earlier
product. We enjoy the open source approach that AlbumWeb Pro uses to make the HTML that builds the pages available
for modification. The software creates a great light box throughclick ablee thumb to full image interface that's flexible and
easily altered. The product is a bargain at $39.95 (2003) and our only wish is that it incorporated some kind of database
technology to associate captions and copyright text information to images so we wouldn't have to type in captions and other
text directly into the program before compiling to HTML. I'd love to drive the program from data in an Access database.
Regardless, the many professional templates provided, coupled with easily altered HTML code pages and a slew of themed
navigation buttons makes AlbumWeb Pro a dream to work with. Once your Jpegs are ready, it takes only a minute or two to
convert them into a thumbnail image driven album that looks and acts professional.
Thanks to Greg Wirth, Hong Nguyen, Matthew Watson, Matthew Bryant, David Bryant and the rest
of the Web programming and design consulting crew who created the site and keep it up and running.
With their help, we will display as many pictures from the collection as possible and add new images
as soon as they become available. We will continue to provide detailed, timely information for clients,
contributing photographers and photographers considering the agency for representation.