I started this site in 1998. I have designed or built a few other sites for academic departments or programs at Williams and previous institutions, but most of these have been rewritten since I worked on them.
All of the pages on this site were constructed on Apple Macintosh computers. I have been an enthusiastic Apple user since the //e days. To write and maintain these pages I used the HTML text editor Page Spinner initially; now I use BBEdit.
I feel strongly that pages like these should observe standards so they will be accessible to a wide range of user agents on many different platforms. I try to keep them in compliance with the World Wide Web Consortium's standards for valid HTML and CSS. The HTML is version 4.01 strict, and the layout information is all in CSS. The page encoding is unicode (UTF-8).
The page backgrounds show Japanese seasonal motifs, and come from the Mangekyō/Kaleidoscope site. If you are using Firefox or another browser that supports alternate style sheets, you can see the backgrounds for seasons other than the current one; in Firefox, for example, select Page Style from the View menu. The background of the "Japanese for Your Mac" pages is based on a bunraku script, and was designed by Libby Kim.