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Colophon*: About This Site

This site was created by Aptek Group, a Waterford, MI-based web design & development company. It was designed by Chris Moritz (Senior Designer) and developed by Steve Sanchez (Lead Application Engineer). Content is maintained and updated by Joy Ross, Communications Specialist, MMA

Typography

The Michigan Manufacturer’s Associations’ logo is set in New Century Schoolbook; the logo glyph characters are set in Arial. All other typography (headlines, text, etc.) are set in Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, or Helvetica, via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Tools

(X)HTML, CSS, client-side and server-side scripting

BBEdit 6.5, from Bare Bones Software

EditPlus 2

Dreamweaver MX, from Macromedia

DHTML menu effects

Project Seven Dreamweaver Extensions Auto Layers, Auto Hide Layers and Opera Resize Fix

Content Management System (CMS)

Liquid Data™ & Muriel™ – a proprietary system developed in-house by Aptek Group

Web browsers

Internet Explorer 5.0 – 5.2.1 (Mac OS 10.1.5)

Internet Explorer 5.0 – 6.0 (Windows 98/2000/XP)

Netscape 6.2 (Mac OS 10.1.5 & Windows 98/2000/XP)

Mozilla 1.0 – various builds (Mac OS 10.1.5 & Windows XP)

Netscape 4.x (*) – various builds (Mac OS 9.2.1 & Windows 95/98/XP)

Image editing

Adobe Photoshop 6 & 7 (Mac)

Adobe ImageReady 3 & 7 (Mac)

Compression

StuffIt Deluxe 6.5

Server Technologies

Internet Information Services 5.0

SQL Server Enterprise Manager

Thunderstone Webinator Web Index System

Speedy ASP Discussion Forum by ASPwebSoft (modified by Aptek Group)

Coding

This site is composed in valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, as recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Page layout, colors, and typography are controlled by Cascading Style Sheets, Level 1 and 2. In order to facilitate the ease of use for Users of older browsers, a bare-bones table layout has been used to enforce the basic arrangment of elements on the page, a necessary departure from the spirit of current W3C recommendations due to the lack of full-compliance by even the most modern browsers, and specific shortcomings in the current editions of XHTML and CSS.

With few exceptions however, each page on this site is a valid document, prepared both for optimal forward-compatibility and for graceful degradation to older browsers. Several common accessibility features (e.g. ALT tags for images, table summaries, etc.) are present on the current version of the site, but a full accessibility assessment and deployment has not yet been conducted.