Website Credits

This web-site is powered by an application framework, and a companion HTML-templating toolkit, both written in the Perl® programming language.   This combination of software tools and CSS styles provides the consistent “look and feel” and behavior found throughout the site, including the menu-structure, breadcrumbs, and customized meta-tags.   The XML site-map (used by search-engines) is also generated in this way, so that it automatically reflects the current content of the site and the correct modification-date of all elements.   This makes the site easier for search engines to properly index the site for maximum SEO placement, without imposing any additional maintenance burdens upon us as the owners of the site.

The web-development techniques used here allow the very-rapid development of fast, robust, professional-grade sites, without limiting in any way how the site looks, feels, or operates.   The sites thus produced are also quite “hacker”-resistant.

This site was developed by Sundial Services for itself, and it is representative of the kind of site that might be required by any on-line business of its type.   (The corresponding administrative site, used to manage this one, is not accessible by means of the Internet.)   This is a fairly-typical example of what might be called a “product brochure” site; probably the most frequently-found type of business web-site on the Internet.   Its primary business purpose is to describe a company's products and services, doing so in a reasonably visually-appealing way that works the same on all browsers.   It provides a fast and secure mechanism for customer contact and feedback.   It links to a trustworthy third-party supplier for its online e-commerce store.

This site design emphasizes “function, over appearance,” although a few pages do exhibit the use of some CSS style-sheet tricks.   The purpose of this site is ... to tell the world about the world’s best tool for repairing Paradox databases, and about one of the world’s best resources for qualified technical services pertaining to all aspects of computer software.