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This site was created, and is maintained and Webmastered, by Bro. Bruce Alen Klaiss, and has seen a curious history, to say the least. (WARNING: the following is weighted toward the Web developer, hacker or general tech-head.)
It was originally mocked up using Symantec Visual Page 4, a project-oriented "WYSIWYG" Web composer. This worked well enough to mock up most of the site in approximately a week, following which I moved in Lodge that Friendship 83 go online. (Yes, I know, kinda backwards. I wanted to have something to show the Brethren to illustrate what I was planning on.) The Lodge meditated on the project for two weeks, during which time the pages were further tweaked with VP4.
Approximately two days after the Brethren approved the motion, Visual Page coughed and died; for some reason as yet unknown, it refused to load the pages. After some initial panic, ranting, raving and tearing of what remained of my thinning hair, I switched to FrontPage Express, the mini-editor that is packaged with Windows 98. I then turned to HomeSite 4.0 and 4.5, another project-oriented editor that focuses on the actual mark-up process with tags. The site started off as HTML 3.2 Transitional; beginning in July, 2000, it was reworked in HTML 4.0 Transitional, using cascading style sheets for the layout formatting.
Most graphics found on the site are clip art or public-domain graphics obtained from various Masonic sites. The one notable exception is the excellent gold square-and-compass on a blue background at the top of the main page. This was created by Stanley Woodvine from the cover of Moses Redding's 1892 Illustrated History of Freemasonry. The devoloper found it while surfing into the site of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia. Our Lodge gratefully thanks our brothers to the North, and especially Trevor McKeown, their Webmaster, for the gracious permission to use this graphic.
This site was created using 100% recycled bits; please remember to recycle in your cyberspace. (Hey, who says Masons don't have senses of humor?)
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