Our office

Hosting

Our host is pair.com because of speed, reliability, security, success and support. They host over 190,000 Web sites and have run a profitable hosting enterprise for ten years. We have a developer hosting account and support all our sites on pair.com.

Software we use

Writing html pages, php scripts and MySQL queries is a routine task in our office. In other words, quite a bit of time is spent typing. TextPad is a programmers editor that we use. It supports html tagging, macros for repetitive tasks, floating block copy/move, sorting, bookmarks, search in unopened files and syntax highlighting.

This is a graphics editor and photo processor. Compared to PhotoShop it has fewer users but its strength is in repetitive tasks, ease of use and price.

PhotoShop Elements is the little brother of the pricey PhotoShop. It does most of the work of its sibling and fills in where PhotoImpact cannot.

This is the world's most popular database. MySQL is used in many of the world's largest companies. It may surprise you to learn it is also used in many of the world's smallest companies (and many in between). It is considered an open source product.

The language of databases is SQL. Since we subscribe to MySQL, it is essential to have a graphic user interface to perform SQL queries and updates in a friendly windows format. SQLyog is one of the most popular MySQL font-ends available.

In their infancy Web servers were used only to deliver html pages and graphics. Servers do much more today. The server-scripting language we use is PHP. It has the reputation of being the most popular scripting language on the Web. PHP is considered an open source product.

Adobe Acrobat bridges the need for document-quality formatting with Web access. Contracts, applications, instructions, maps and other information visitors will want to print can be preserved in an excellent format directly accessible from our Web pages.

Ipswitch makes a line of popular FTP clients for transferring Web pages, images, and other files to and from Web servers. WS_FTE is the tool we use to move work from our local development servers up to the remote public Web servers.

Location

1301 N A.W. Grimes Blvd
Round Rock, TX 78665

Phone:

Hugh Poynor, Ph.D.

Lee Poynor, Ph.D.