These web pages were originally produced in (1995 through 1999) using OS/2 Warp, ver. 4 system editor running on an Insight 100MHz Pentium with 32 MB ram. Simpletext on a Macintosh PowerMac was also used for some of the editing. Webpages were later scripted using Notepad on either an IBM Activa, 450 MHz Intel Pentium III with 98 MB ram or a Dell 450 MHz OptiPlex, both running under Windows 2000 Professional.Some text and graphics were originally scanned in using an Apple Color Scanner. Images were processed using Ophoto and Graphic Converter. The newest images have been taken using a Sony Mavica 91 Digital camera or scanned in with a Mustek 1200LS scanner, with processing done using iPhotoPlus, Version 4.0 and MS Photo Editor. A Visioneer 4400 USB scanner is now used whenever digital images cannot be obtained by other means. PDF files have been produced using Adobe Acrobat 4.0, and now Acrobat 5.0. Molecular structural formulas were produced using ISIS/Draw ver 2.3. Headings are JPG files made at www.cooltext.com/.
Files and images were originally placed on the web server using IBM ftp-pm and Fetch 2.1, and later Fetch 3.0. WS_FTP Pro, ver 6.5 or FTP Explorer were both used from 1998 until September, 2000. Internet Explorer, ver. 6.0, is currently being used to transfer files to and from the VA Tech chemistry webserver.
These webpages are currently being produced using Notepad on an HP 2.6 GHz IntelTM Pavilion 764c with 1024 MB RAM running Windows XP. They are best viewed using Netscape 4.0 or higher and Internet Explorer 5.0, although some HTML that is specific to Internet Explorer is also included. The PowerPoint presentations were produced using PowerPoint 2000 and are definitely better when viewed with IE 5.0 or higher.
Pages are currently being converted to XHTML format using cascading stylesheets.
Gwen Sibert is the producer of these web pages. Please send any comments, especially those concerning errors in html formatting, problems with viewing on browsers other than Netscape 4.0 or higher, or spelling or text errors to her at gsibert@rvgs.k12.va.us