This site is best viewed on a Macintosh computer (because our photographs are optimized for the Mac's screen brightness) with a minimum of 16-bit color ("thousands") and a screen resolution of 800x600 or higher. Windows machines should be set to High Color (16-bit) or True Color (24 or 32 bit). We use Apple Computer's Safari browser, though it should look OK on any reasonably recent browser. The site uses frames, styles, and a little bit of Javascript. It is possible to view the pages with a browser that is not frame-enabled, but navigation will not be as convenient. Without support for styles, things will become very ugly indeed. Finally, having Javascript enabled and frames disabled will render the site unusable because there will be no way to navigate it.

www.kiechle.com is edited on a Power Macintosh with two 1 GHz G4 processors, 1,5 gigabytes of RAM and 280 gigabytes of on-line storage. The Mac runs OS X, and what little OS 9 software we still have runs comfortably in the Classic environment. For more information on the most advanced operating system in the world and the awesome hardware it runs on, take a look at Apple's web site.

The site still contains a few photographs that were taken with a Minolta Maxxum 9000 conventional 35mm camera and scanned with a UMAX UC630 flatbed scanner, but for just about all photographs taken after July 1998, we used our shirtpocket sized Fujifilm MX-700 digital camera. All photos were processed with Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady software. In May 2001, we added an Olympus C3040Z to our inventory. We bought the Olympus for its higher resolution, faster lens, and very impressive feature list. The new camera was used for most pictures on this site until April 2004 when we acquired a Nikon D70 digital SLR. This latest addition should help us overcome some of the limitations we have encountered with our previous digital cameras, most notably in the area of shutter lag. Our first impressions of the Nikon D70 are extremely favorable, indeed!

To create and edit the web pages, we now use BBEdit, an excellent text editor from Bare Bones Software. Previous versions of the site were done with Adobe PageMill 3.0, and we also looked at some of the higher-end graphical HTML editors. Sadly, none of these tools produce clean and coherent HTML code, and so we're back to doing things the old-fashioned way: by typing text. BBEdit does provide quite a bit of assistance and performs all kinds of validations on the code. If you really want full control over your HTML code, we highly recommend this product.

Our web site is hosted by inmotion Hosting. We switched to them in October of 2007.

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