About the Site

The www.blish.org site is, with the exception of the genealogical pages, a hand-crafted effort. Each page was written in native HTML using a powerful Windows 95/98/NT text editor, TextPad. HTML structure validation for all hand-written site pages is performed after every change using HTML Validator. Browser display widths of 640 pixels or wider should result in output formatted as designed. The pages were generally aimed at a browser width of 800 pixels. The site has been tested for rendering compatibility (correct display) with the three mainstream Windows browsers:

No claim for compatibility with earlier versions of these products or browsers running under other operating systems is made. It is worth noting that Communicator 5's HTML table handling is very weak; 100% valid and correct HTML table code that utilizes ROWSPAN and COLSPAN tag options will often cause Communicator 5's display formatting to become pathological. We went to a great deal of effort to ensure that Communicator would work with the site, and gave up many useful HTML formatting capabilities. It's really too bad they didn't put more effort into making their software robust.

All forms use standard HTML form elements, and forms processing is done using PERL, also the standard mechanism. The PERL code has been written using a high-security approach, presenting absolutely no user data to the server. This ultimately prevents hacking of the host system via inappropriate use of site's forms and CGI scripts.

The site avoids the use of Active-X, frames, JAVA scripting and "cookies". Some banner exchange networks use cookies to control any or all of banner display, "hit" counting, and page re-visit disqualification. As a result, at some point users may encounter a cookie that emanates from one or more of the mainstream banner networks. These cookies should be of the most harmless class, as they are intended to control banner display and hit crediting for the site banner accounts. Despite this, we cannot make any guarantees that these cookies are completely benign. If you have any concerns, disable cookies using the tools provided for that purpose in your web browser.

All images contained in the main site and on the genealogical subpages were created or processed using WinImages, a powerful image manipulation suite from the family member organization Black Belt Systems.