Midnight Plumbers - site technical information

The site is put together using free/open source materials where possible.

• Databases - MySQL
• Programming/Scripts - PHP 4, Perl 5, JavaScript, Java
• Hosted by - www.dr2.net - check out their excellent hosting plans
• Developed using - Namo Webeditor v5, Aedix, MySQL-Front and metapad
• Browser compatibility - tested on IE6 and Mozilla.  The site has been (re)written using CSS (no tables) so everything should work ok

The following resource materials were used, mangled or just generally helpful

• Hugh E. Williams and David Lane, Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, published by O'Reilly & Associates. Check out the source code at www.webdatabasebook.com
• Sterling Hughes, PHP Developers' Cookbook, published by SAMS
• Coranto v1.22 with various add-ons for the news scripts. This provides the top story and headlines on the home page along with all of the other stories in the news section. worth a look if you need that kind of thing.
• Java applets came from www.6sense.com
• Quiz - Quirex Perl Script
• codewalkers.com is a valuable source of help and guidance - please check it out
• Weblogs - currently provided courtesy of Blogger
• Forum - Invision Board
• HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS by Dan Shafer, published by Sitepoint 2003 is a book well worth having on your bookshelf.  It takes away a bit of the pain that is the CSS learning curve

For more information contact The Webmaster who will be happy to help