Sonnack.com

HELLO

Welcome to the site. This is a personal site; there's nothing to buy here.

CAVEATS

As with most sites, this place is dynamic and evolving. It shouldn't be necessary to actually say, "Under Construction" anywhere. You can take that as given! (And I'm sure there's a few lurking broken things here and there.) See the News Page for recent additions and changes.

CREDITS

I write my web pages "from scratch." Like baking bread from scratch, it's something you chose to do because you like it, not because you don't know any better. So, for what it's worth, these pages are hand crafted with the help of some very cool tools:

To create and edit the page text, a wonderful Windows implementation of UNIX's (in-)famous Vi by Sven Guckes (guckes@vim.org). It's called gvim (for GUI Vim) and adds many features that Vi does not have (but which have been wanted for a long time). Many features have been improved, hence the name: "Vim - Vi IMproved" (although Vim is also reported to be the most "vi compliant" implementation of Vi). I especially love it's user-definable syntax highlighting ability.

To create and edit images, JASC Software's Paint Shop Pro 7 and the PSP Amimation Shop for the original animated GIFs. It's kind of a poorman's version of the Adobe Photoshop program. I've been using this since version 4, and think it's wonderful. NOTE: Jasc was bought by Corel, which now supports the later PSP versions. I haven't updated since Jasc was bought—the version I have (7) works fine for me.

IrfanView is a great image-viewer that started out good and has become better and better. (Although it's beginning to suffer from bloatware from my point of view, because it now does far, far more than I need (or really want) it to.) I don't use it's image manipulation features, but it's my default image browser, so I do use it quite a lot (I also use the thumbnail tool a bit, mostly for viewing. And since a website is a visual effort, and I've used IrfanView a great deal, I thought it was worth honorable mention! IrfanView is a way cool tool, a Freeware personal effort by Irfan Skiljan. I recommend it unconditionally!