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The Back Page...
Executive Producer: Robert Hess
Producer/Designer: Robert Hess
Art Director: Robert Hess
Technical Developer: Robert Hess
Lead Graphic Artist: Robert Hess
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Special Thanks to: Chris Jones
Ben Slivka
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Lee Fisher
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 and
Bill Gates
This set of pages, Windows On The Internet, has been specifically designed to show and use features and capabilities available in Microsoft Internet Explorerinternet link. While it was not the intention of the author to create pages that don't view properly with other browsers, you may experience difficulties if you are not using at least version 2.0 of Internet Explorer.

User Resources:

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The typographic design of this site relies heavily on the availability of the fonts Arial, Arial Black, Times New Roman, Comic Sans MS, and Impact. All of these fonts are part of the TrueType fonts for Windows and the Macintosh that Microsoft provides free of chargeinternet link for users to download.

In some instances, these pages also use Lucida Sans, Lucida Console, and OCR A Extended. In virtually all cases where these fonts are used, care is taken to drop back to one of the previously listed free fonts.

Authoring Tools:
All of the editing of the HTML sources for this site was done using Notepad.

Most, or possibly even all, of the graphics seen on these pages were constructed or at least manipulated and touched up by PaintShop Prointernet link, an excellent little image-manipulation program that costs only $39. The makers of PaintShop Pro have recently come out with a 32-bit version of their product that runs on Windows NT and Windows 95.

Feedback Wanted: This page is what I am referring to as the "Back Page." It would be similar to the closing credits of a movie. Here is where information about this set of pages would be found. It would include a list of the folks responsible for these pages (as you see there on the left). It would also be a handy location for putting copyright information, usage statistics, fonts used in the design of the page, and sponsors, as well as listing all of the possible product logos and such that might be appropriate.

Lately, it seems like a lot of people's "home" pages are getting cluttered up with the various logos of their sponsors. While I can understand that the sponsors want to push their names and identities in front of users' faces, I think that cluttering up what would otherwise have been a well-designed page is not the way to do it. Perhaps by using a "Credits" page like this one, everybody can be reasonably happy with the results.

The way I am implementing it here, it would be accessible from either a "Back Page" image (I'm using a turned page-corner graphic that I worked up), you might also want to use it as the page behind any "Copyright (C) 1996" statements you have on your site.

Think it over, try it out, and let me know how it works for you.

And now for the fine print. This is to illustrate how this page can also serve as your "Copyright" disclosure information:

Copyright 1996 Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052-6399 U.S.A. All rights reserved.

Permission to use, copy and distribute documents and related graphics available from this World Wide Web server ("Server") is granted, provided that (1) the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear, (2) use of documents and related graphics available from this Server is for informational and non-commercial purposes only, (3) no documents or related graphics available from this Server are modified in any way, and (4) no graphics available from this Server are used, copied or distributed separate from accompanying text.

Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by Microsoft Corporation.

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Any software which is downloaded from this Server for or on behalf of the United States of America, its agencies and/or instrumentalities ("U.S. Government"), is provided with Restricted Rights. Use, duplication, or disclosure by the U.S. Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252.227-7013 or subparagraphs (c)(1) and (2) of the Commercial Computer Software - Restricted Rights at 48 CFR 52.227-19, as applicable. Manufacturer is Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399.

TRADEMARKS

Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT and other names of Microsoft products referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other product and company names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

MICROSOFT CORPORATION MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED ON THIS SERVER FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL SUCH DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. MICROSOFT CORPORATION HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT CORPORATION BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THIS SERVER.

THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED ON THIS SERVER COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. MICROSOFT CORPORATION MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE PRODUCT(S) AND/OR THE PROGRAM(S) DESCRIBED HEREIN AT ANY TIME.

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Robert B. Hess
roberth@microsoft.com
One Microsoft Way
Redmond WA, 98052-6399