St. John Colophon*: About This Site

Site Content

All original content on the StJohn.org website is maintained and updated by the dedicated staff at St. John Health.

If you have any questions or comments about the content on this site please use our Contact Form and provide the URL of the page you wish to comment about.

Design & Development

This site was created by Biznet Internet Solutions, an Wixom, Michigan based web design & development company. It was designed by Ben Fryc (Senior Designer), developed and implemented by Steve Sanchez (Lead Application Developer and Project Manager). A big tip of the hat also has to go to Chris Moritz for help in creating the original stjohn.org site, from which much of the css layouts have evolved.

Tools

(X)HTML, CSS, client-side and server-side scripting

EditPlus 2

Microsoft Visual Studio .Net

Dreamweaver MX & 2004, from Macromedia

Content Management System (CMS)

A proprietary system developed in-house by BiznetIS.Net

Web browsers

Internet Explorer 5.5 – 7.0 (Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista)

Mozilla 1.7+ – various builds

Firefox 1.0 – various builds

Image editing

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe ImageReady

Compression

WinRAR archiver

Server Technologies

Internet Information Services 6.0

Microsoft .Net Framework

SQL Server Enterprise Manager

Coding

This site is composed in valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, as recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Page layout, colors, and typography are controlled by Cascading Style Sheets, Level 1 and 2. In order to facilitate the ease of use for users of older browsers, a bare-bones table layout has been used to enforce the basic arrangement of elements on the page, a necessary departure from the spirit of current W3C recommendations due to the lack of full-compliance by even the most modern browsers, and specific shortcomings in the current editions of XHTML and CSS.

With few exceptions however, each page on this site is a valid document, prepared both for optimal forward-compatibility and for graceful degradation to older browsers. Several common accessibility features (e.g. ALT tags for images, table summaries, etc.) are present on the current version of the site, but a full accessibility assessment and deployment has not yet been conducted.