NerdBird's Nest was founded in January 1998, though the domain was registered a month earlier (I got it as Christmas present!). I usually refer to the version now as version 4.x, as the one released in January was 4.0. Older versions - of which some didn't even have the NerdBird name - were found on other domains.
I had been working in Claris Homepage 1.0 for a couple of months with my first
homepage, when I encountered FrontPage 1.1 on my NT Server 4.0 CD-ROM. Being a
Microsoftophiliac by nature (or whatever it's called), I swiftly changed to FrontPage,
except for the frames handling, which HomePage at that time was better at. Then
came FrontPage 98 and now FrontPage 2000m and I do 95% of
my homepage editing in FrontPage 2000, as this is simply a great editor, with the well-known
Office touch, which makes me feel so much at home... It's not still a
fully-fledged Office program (for instance, the F4 key doesn't work in FP as it
does in Word, and in the Open dialog, open one document can be selected at a
time...). It also likes to create lots of FrontPage/IE specific code, so you
have to be careful and now the details of FrontPage. Personally, I don't think
anybody without a basic knoweledge of HTML should be allowed to try FrontPage or
another WYSIWYG HTML-editor and even less to publish a webpage... but maybe I'm
just old-fashioned here.
Price: Commercial Product in the Office 2000 suite.
sometimes a plain text editor is simply the best for that quick'n'dirty update - and
writing HTML code by hand gives a better understanding of how the Web works.
Price: Free with Windows NT.
is my favourite editor, but not the one I use for HTML-editing in general. But most of
the larger portions of text at this site started their life as a .doc file. My
biggest complaints about Word 2000 is that copy'n'paste from Word 2000 to
FrontPage 2000 generates a lot of unnecessary Office/IE specific HTML-code,
which I must either remove by hand or copy from Word to notepad and then to
FrontPage :-(
Price: Commercial Product in the Office 2000 suite.
is a strange but useful little program for writing ActiveX pages... and it's free! It
works a bit like Webmania - you point and click to tell the program what you want, and
then it creates the HTML- and VBScript code for you. Pretty soon, I discovered that it was
often easier to manually insert the VBScript thingies - but when you just don't exactly
remember the Object-ID for a Control Button, the Control Pad is great to have.
Price: Free.
I got a demo-CD with Micrografx' Graphics Suite 2. A 30-day trial, that is. After 15
days, I bought the package... Picture Publisher 7 was an excellent graphics manipulating
program, and the version 8 is really improved. I neither can nor will pay for
PhotoShop, and in most cases, I don't think it's necessary. Picture Publisher 8 does all
what you need and then a whole lot more. A new version has just come out under
another name, but I haven't tried it out yet.
Price: about 400 dkr. Came free with a computer magazine some months ago, when
the new version was released.
Version 2 is another member of the Graphics Suite 2 family. Fun to play with and makes
impressive 3D-scenes. Unfortunately, it makes my Pentium 100 a bit exhausted now and then.
I've used both version 2 & 3, and both are great - though version 3 of course is
better (but requires a fast PC).
Price: about 400 dkr.
A cheap little GIF animator. Shareware and cheap to register. Very effective and user
friendly, and in addition it has some funny - not always useful - extra features, such as
scrolling LED signs and such. Fun stuff. The link points to a newer version.
Price: US $20.
I used the Virtus VRML editor to create the 3-D worlds you can find on my site. It's a
bit old and saves in VRML 1.0 format, but it's fast and doesn't demand much machine power!
Price: Came free with a book I bought.
I like trying out new stuff, so when Microsoft released the first beta of IE 5.5, I had to try. It seems promising, but it's definitely a beta!
are two browsers I usually don't use - but Jens uses those a lot and makes sure to tell me if my page doesn't work with these.
was used by my fiancée Jens Fallesen to do the counter, the guestbook script and the statistics page. I don't know Perl myself and frankly have no intention of learning it, so when Jens offered to do these scripts, I happily let him do it, as they improve my site. Then, I suppose, I must live with the fact that parts of my site has been created with vi on a UNIX-machine...
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