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This section contains all of the administrivia specific to the operation of this web site. It includes information on the web site author, thanks to people who helped make this site a reality, and information about copyright and reproduction of materials on this web site.
David L. Vessell is an instructor of web technologies for ITT Technical Institute in Arnold, Missouri. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, and has over 10 years of experience in database design and web development. He is presently pursuing a Master of Education degree in Education Technology from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
He is also an amateur musician and has been recording independent synthpop and electro albums since 1987. Much of his recent work is featured on his web page at Ampcast. He first acquired an alphaSyntauri system in September of 2002 and created this site after finding almost no information on the instrument anywhere on the Internet. David lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife Ann and 2 year old son Eric.
You may reach the author by e-mail at purplenote@pobox.com.
The author would like to thank the following people for making this web site possible:
All original portions of this web site are Copyright ©2002 David L. Vessell dba Purple Note Records, St. Louis, Missouri. Reproduced portions appear by permission of the rightsholder(s) as indicated in the text accompanying the material. Some materials are reproduced without permission because of the difficulty of locating the copyright holders (many of which are defunct). These materials are provided here in good faith for the support of this web site's users. If you are a rightsholder and you do not want your material to appear here, please e-mail the web site author at purplenote@pobox.com and the material in question will be removed promptly. In many cases, reproduction rights have been granted by a rightsholder specifically to this web site, therefore no text, images, or other information or material may be reproduced from this site without permission from the web site author or the rightsholder of the material in question.
This section is for the benefit of my Q370 instructor, Samantha Adams. It documents my satisfaction of the project criteria for completeness as outlined in the assignment notes for Unit 15.
The assignment notes instructs:
Although your web sites will reflect individual interests, each site should be developed with a clear purpose and recognized design fundamentals as goals. Your web site should be suitable for an outside user to assess your capabilities. Each student should set individual goals that are challenging and will provide the most learning.
I believe that my site satisfies this statement. The purpose is clear and I have followed design fundamentals to the best of my ability. Outside users should have no difficulty evaluating the implementation of the site, even if they are unfamiliar with the topic. This site is likely to be larger and more sophisticated than most other student's projects, reflecting my previous experience with the course material. The assignment notes also specify the following particular requirements, which I have presented in a table below:
| Feature required: | Fulfilled by: |
|---|---|
| Five linked pages that you create. These pages should contain substantial content and be related to one another and be similar in look, feel and overall conceptual design. | The current version (12/8/2002) contains eight web pages. |
| Clear concise navigation | Every page includes the navigation menu at the top of the page. These links are repeated in text at the bottom of each page. On pages with multiple sections of content, a "Jump to" menu with links has been provided. Each section ends with a "Return to top" link. |
| Links to outside web pages | Links to outside web sites appear on the Documents page in the Web Links section, on the About page in the Acknowledgements section, and otherwise scattered around the web site in places where a follow-up reference is appropriate. |
| At least two different types DHTML elements on your site (scrolling text box, javascript element, style sheets, mouse rollover, etc.) | The top navigation menu features mouse rollover images. External style sheets are used throughout. |
| An e-mail link (to you) and /or others if necessary | E-mail links appear on the About and Home pages, and elsewhere where appropriate. |
| Graphics (may be clip art) | I created most of the images. The navigation menu and section header images were created in Adobe Photoshop 7. Most of the photo images are original, created with a Kodak DC215 digital camera or scanned using a Microtek ScanMaker V310, and processed using Photoshop. The remainder of the images are either in the public domain or are used with the permission of the creator. |
| Basic elements such as horizontal rules, background or link colors, lists, and/or tables | The background and link colors are set in the external style sheet. The navigation menu was assembled using a table, and tables, lists, and other structural elements appear throughout the site. |
| Demonstration of embedded, external, or inline styles | External style sheets are used throughout. The filename is syntauri.css. |
| All links work (this a must) | All internal links work. Most external links should be reliable. Unreliable external links have been marked. |
| All images display properly (this a must) | All images appear as they should. |
| Everything works on Macintosh and Windows based operating systems | Testing in progress. |
| Everything works on both browsers Netscape 6 and IE 5 and above. | Testing in progress. Everything currently works in IE 6. |
| Consistent design throughout the site (aesthetics are very important at this stage) | All web pages are based on the same template structure that shares navigation features and style usage. |
I have sincerely enjoyed this course. Although I knew most of the course material coming in, I found this course to be a nice refresher, and it gave me an excuse to do this web site, which I had been thinking about for a long time but had never gotten around to doing. Thanks, Samantha!
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