Site Tools & Credits
The cool tools, software applications and other goodies that make this site possible
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Site Tools & Credits (credits.shtml) | Updated: 29-Nov-2008 - 21:59
Tools and Goodies
Tools and Goodies Used to Create and Maintain This Site. This an a lot of Diet Pepsi and a few guitars and ukuleles.
Here are some of the tools that
I've used to build and maintain this web site. As
the site has grown several of this tools have been invaluable in
maintaining the site and my sanity. Especially
BBEdit from Bare Bones Software.
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Released with much fanfare in January of 1984, the Macintosh was the first affordable computer to include a Graphical User Interface. It was built around the new Motorola 68000 chip, which was significantly faster than previous processors, running at 8 MHz. The Mac came in a small beige case with a black and white monitor built in. It came with a keyboard and mouse, and had a floppy drive that took 400k 3.5" disks--the first personal computer to do so. It originally sold for $2,495.
Text courtesy www.apple-history.com
Everything done on a Macintosh computers.
Site is even hosted on mac by
MacHighway.
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Links
- www.BareBones.com
- WidipediA: BBEdit
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BBEdit is a text editor originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and now for Mac OS X. It is made by Bare Bones Software. BBEdit is not a word processor, meaning it does not have text formatting or page layout features. BBEdit's audience includes programmers and web designers.
Bare Bones Software also made a free and less-featured version of BBEdit called BBEdit Lite. Bare Bones Software discontinued BBEdit Lite at version 6.1 and replaced it with TextWrangler, which initially cost money (though significantly less than BBEdit), but several years later was released for free. BBEdit itself was available at no charge from its initial release in 1991, but went commercial in May 1993 with the release of version 2.5.
BBEdit
BBEdit
Bare Bones software. My entire site is "hand coded" using BBEdit. I've been using this software since version 3 (1994)
I don't reccommend that you had code you web site like I did. I started hand coding html around 1995 before there where programs like DreamWeaver, GoLive and Flash. But, I do reccommend you keep your site simple, fast loading and easy to find stuff. The last part, find stuff, can be hard as a site grows.
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95110-2704
Tel: 408-536-6000
Fax: 408-537-6000
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Adobe PhotoShop, Acrobat, InDesign and Illustrator
Started on Aldus PageMaker and a Mac II, then QuarkXpress and now I use InDesign®, Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat® software exclusively.
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Using their Acron - Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind - simplicity. Fast, easy, and fluid, Acorn provides the options you'll need without any overhead.
( from listing's site ) - Flying Meat Inc. is a privately held software company just north of Seattle, Washington; founded in 2003 by Gus Mueller with a single idea- to make a better Mac application. That idea was first realized with the award winning desktop wiki named VoodooPad, and later on with FlySketch and FlyGesture.
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Sibelius
Sibelius Software
The Old Toy Factory
20-23 City North
Fonthill Road
London N4 3HF
Sibelius Australia
2/52 Weaver Street
Edwardstown SA 5039
Sibelius Sales
1407 Oakland Blvd, Suite 103
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Phone: 925-280-6600
Toll Free: 888-4-SIBELIUS toll-free
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For all my music notation needs.
Sibelius is the world market leader in software for writing, teaching and publishing music. It specializes in creating and distributing innovative, high-quality software that is easy to use. With products for composition, coursework, testing, reference, playback, publishing, authoring and e-commerce, Sibelius covers every aspect of music.
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Valued Resources
Companies that Curt Sheller Publications relies on for equipment and services.
Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95110-2704
Tel: 408-536-6000
Fax: 408-537-6000
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Info
Adobe PhotoShop, Acrobat, InDesign and Illustrator
Started on Aldus PageMaker and a Mac II, then QuarkXpress and now I use InDesign®, Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat® software exclusively.
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Info
Released with much fanfare in January of 1984, the Macintosh was the first affordable computer to include a Graphical User Interface. It was built around the new Motorola 68000 chip, which was significantly faster than previous processors, running at 8 MHz. The Mac came in a small beige case with a black and white monitor built in. It came with a keyboard and mouse, and had a floppy drive that took 400k 3.5" disks--the first personal computer to do so. It originally sold for $2,495.
Text courtesy www.apple-history.com
Everything done on a Macintosh computers.
Site is even hosted on mac by
MacHighway.
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I use Comcast for my high speed Internet access. I also have a cheap dial-up access service (isp.com) for those times Comcast has been down (very, very, very rare) to check orders.
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FileMaker, Inc. is the worldwide leader in easy-to-use database software for business professionals. Millions of customers—individuals, small businesses, teams in education and government, workgroups in Fortune 100 companies—manage projects, people, and assets with FileMaker.
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Using their Acron - Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind - simplicity. Fast, easy, and fluid, Acorn provides the options you'll need without any overhead.
( from listing's site ) - Flying Meat Inc. is a privately held software company just north of Seattle, Washington; founded in 2003 by Gus Mueller with a single idea- to make a better Mac application. That idea was first realized with the award winning desktop wiki named VoodooPad, and later on with FlySketch and FlyGesture.
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Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Hewlett-Packard Company
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1185 USA
Phone: (650) 857-1501
Fax: (650) 857-5518
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Get a B&W and color laser printer for your publishing business.
I use HP Printers (period)
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(from their site) -
Founded in 1983, Intuit had annual revenue of more than $2 billion in its fiscal year 2005. The company has nearly 7,000 employees with major offices in 13 states across the U.S., and offices in Canada and the United Kingdom.
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Performance Design, Inc. (PDI)
2350 E. Braniff St.
Boise, ID 83716
Tel: (208) 384-8551 or 800-390-5782 (English speakers only)
FAX: (208) 384-8583 or 800-390-5783 (All languages)
1-800-390-5782
Links
Be sure to sign up for your Staples Rewards card. It can mean a few hundred dollars a year.
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Design Services
Links
- www.AbominableProductions.com
- To The Nines Wedding Videography: www.ToTheNinesVideo.com
Info
(from their site) - Abominable Productions is the fusion of an innovative videographer and a passionate dancer-choreographer. Together they specialize in exceptional videos that showcase the true art of dance.
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Pete has designed banners for CurtSheller.com and JazzGuitarResources.com
Logos - Corporate, Logos - Cartoon Style, Illustration, Web Design and CD Design
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Links
- www.CurtSheller.com
- www.JazzGuitarResources.com
- www.UkuleleStrums.com NEW
- www.UkuleleResources.com
- www.UkuleleChords.net
- www.UkuleleClubs.com
- www.UkuleleForGuitarPlayers.com
Info
Publishing
We (1) are, am a small independent publishing company catering to the needs of musicians, guitar players and ukulele players worldwide with the resources and information needed to develop as a musician. Curt Sheller Publications was created by Curt Sheller (me) in 1995 and has been on the web since. Curt Sheller has over 40 years of playing experience, 20 plus years of teaching experience.
Here are a few of the Curt Sheller Publications titles available:
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Other Goodies
Frameworks, code and other goodies used through out the Curt Sheller Publications sites.
Links
- Main Site
- BluepringCSS Group
- BluepringCSS Code site
- Online Help Sheet Version 0.2 by Alex Winfield
- StarterKit, A (X)HTML, css, JS Starter Kit using BlueprintCSS and JQuery
- Three Column Css Layout With Blueprint Framework by Fahad Ibnay Heylaal
- Links to Blueprint Resources by Lee Honeycutt
Info
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
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Info
Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript software, offering a Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML popups on web pages. The library offers these features and advantages:
- No plugins like Flash or Java required.
- Popup blockers are no problem. The content expands within the active browser window.
- Single click. After opening the image or HTML popup, the user can scroll further down or leave the page without closing it.
- Compatibility and safe fallback. If the user has disabled JavaScript or the JavaScript fails in any way, the browser redirects directly to the image itself or to a fallback HTML page. This fallback is able to cope with most exceptions and incompatibilities.
More information available on company's web site.
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Mint
Shaun Inman
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(from their site) - Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard. Learn more!
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- www.prototypejs.org
- Prototype API PDf
Complete API documentation of Prototype.js, the sweet JavaScript framework for serious web developers. Free.
- google group Prototype & script.aculo.us
A place for users of Prototype (http://prototypejs.org) and script.aculo.us (http://script.aculo.us/) to help one another out, share tips and tricks, and chat about these excellent frameworks.
Using Prototype
- google AJAX Libraries API
Using
google.load("prototype", "1.6");&google.load("scriptaculous", "1.8.1"); - Accordion v2.0
Finally a lightweight accordion that is built with script.aculo.us and works properly in every browser.
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(from their site) - Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
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Using
- Accordion v2.0
Finally a lightweight accordion that is built with script.aculo.us and works properly in every browser.
Info
(from their site) - script.aculo.us is a JavaScript library built on the Prototype JavaScript Framework, providing dynamic visual effects and user interface elements via the Document Object Model.
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Additional Resources
- Silk Icons - (www.famfamfam.com)
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Ukulele Chords
NEW This small (1/2 size) chord book is a great little book to carry with you. Ukulele Chords covers basic open position and basic movable form chords. From these two chord categories a variety of songs and styles can be played.
A Guide to Ukulele Strums & Rhythmic Patterns
This book is designed as a guide to ukulele (pronounced “oo-koo-lele”) strums. From rock and waltz strums to reggae and broken chord strums.
A Guide to Ukulele Chords
This book is designed as a guide to ukulele (pronounced “oo-koo-lele”) chords. Covering basic ukulele chords that ALL uke players MUST know, movable chord forms, rock uke chords, how to transpose chords, learning the ukulele fingerboard and an introduction to 4-part “jazz” chords and more...
Ukulele For Guitar Players
Ukulele for Guitar Players is a guide to transferring the accumulated experience and knowledge gained as a guitar played to the ukulele.
A Guide to Blues Chord Progressions for Ukulele A to Z
Covers the key of C major and C minor, including a detailed accompanying text explaining the principles behind each progression and the chord substutitions.
Exploring "Jazz" Chords on Ukulele
Exploring "Jazz" Chords takes the core chords from A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele and shows their use over a variety of common chord progressions based on songs from the standard jazz repertoire.
A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele
If your goal is to expand your chord vocabulary, The Advanced Guide to Ukelele Chords Series is your answer. Commonly referred to as "jazz" chords. A Guide to Advanced Ukulele Chords Volume I provides detailed information on voicing 4-part chords.
The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords
Commonly referred to as "jazz" chords this provides detailed information on voicing 4-part chords.
Harmonic Analysis For Scale Selection And Chord Substitution
Harmonic Analysis is the understanding of the functional sequence of chords. It is the process used to analyze the harmonic structure of a progression, song or composition. This analysis is then used to make scale selections for improvisation and chord substitution.
Ukulele - Reading Music Series
Reading Music in Open Position, Single Note Studies- Primer. Reading music is not as hard as one might think. It may be new and unfamiliar to you but is not hard when you have a proper plan of attack.
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No Microsoft products were used in the creating of this website - tested in IE using Parallels on my Mac. And what a pain that is!!! - The Windows part not the Parallels.