About … this Web Site

Structure — Photo & Art Credits — Construction Credits

Site Structure

“Shadow” Site

The information published on the Agrarian Studies web site is duplicated on a “shadow,” text-only, site. Crossover between the two versions can be made from their respective “front doors,” or home pages. Their URLs are:

• Graphics version front door: http://www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/real/ashome.html
• Text version front door: http://www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/shadow/ashome.html

Most topics on this site are contained within a single, sometimes longish, page, so that the viewer can easily save or print complete information from a web browser.

Art Credits

Site location: “Front Door” and page banners

Ralph Wheelock’s Farm, c. 1822
oil on canvas, 0.641 x 1.222 m (25 1/4 x 48 1/8in.)
Francis Alexander, American (1800 - 1880)
Property of the National Gallery of Art.
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch (1965.15.3).

Construction Credits

The site was designed and originally constructed in 1998 on an Apple Power Macintosh 8100/110 computer. It was HTML-coded using BBEdit Lite, then the free-ware verson of the text editor from Bare Bones Software, Inc. Original graphic elements were made with Adobe Illustrator 6.0.2. In 2012 all active pages were updated from tables-based HTML coding to CSS-based coding using TextWrangler, Bare Bones Software’s current free-ware text editor, on an Apple MacBookPro (2.5Ghz QuadCore i7). The site is maintained using Coda (by Panic) and TextWrangler. Viewers running recent-vintage browsers will experience most of the modern improvements; viewers using older versions of Internet Explorer will see a simpler version.

The site was designed and constructed by:

MetaGlyfix is grateful to the directors and staff of the Yale Program in Agrarian Studies, and in particular to the Program’s former coordinator, Kay Mansfield, for the opportunity to develop and maintain this site.

NOTE about text files: If your browser does not display diacritical marks or quotation marks correctly, merely change the “text encoding” or “character set” on your browser, usually on the “View” menu. in any event, all characters will download correctly if you save the file to your disk. Use your browser’s “Back” command to return from text files to the previous page.

Please report problems and suggestions to the webmaster.