Chevrolet Nova Internet Source Technical Information

Technical Information

Chevrolet Novas? Are you some kind of nut? Yup.

What browser should I use to view the Chevrolet Nova Internet Source? The Chevrolet Nova Internet Source is unapologetically geared towards Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x. All of Netscape's products have been half-baked: they sloppily interpret HTML tags. You cannot properly see the site unless you use MSIE 4.x.
How should adjust my display settings? You should use 16-bit color depth. Many images and colors will look off-color with only 256 colors. 24- or 32-bit color do not increase your picture quality. They will only slow down your video card.

What system do you use to create this page? Hardware: My computer is manufactured by Scarsdale Computers (281-464-9415). It is a Pentium MMX 200MHz with 64MB EDO RAM, Tyan piece of crap motherboard, Western Digital 4GB and 3.1GB HDDs, Trident 9685 PCI 2MB video card, Mitsumi 32X CD-ROM, Yamaha 16-bit sound card, Iomega parallel port ZIP drive (it's actually pretty fast if the parallel port is on ECP mode!), Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 660C, Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 6L, Mag Innovision DX-15T monitor, 3COM 900XL 10-BaseT PCI Ethernet card, and a US Robotics 33.6K voice modem.
Software: I use Allaire Homesite 3.01 for the HTML itself. It is the best code-based HTML editor on the market. (WYSIWYG editors are for sissies.) I use Corel Photo-Paint 8.369 to handle all my bitmap graphics. Both of these applications run on top of Windows 98.
Web server: The site uses an Apache web server running off of a UNIX machine at SMU. I use server-side includes with some of the pages.

How did you create the VIN decoder? I programmed it myself using Microsoft J++ 1.1. I wrote it in Java SDK 1.0 to maintain compatibility with most web browsers out there.

Any other questions? Send email to Aren Cambre.

Chevrolet Novas? Are you some kind of nut?	Yup.
What browser should I use to view the Chevrolet Nova Internet Source?	The Chevrolet Nova Internet Source is unapologetically geared towards Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x. All of Netscape's products have been half-baked: they sloppily interpret HTML tags. You cannot properly see the site unless you use MSIE 4.x.
How should adjust my display settings?	You should use 16-bit color depth. Many images and colors will look off-color with only 256 colors. 24- or 32-bit color do not increase your picture quality. They will only slow down your video card.
What system do you use to create this page?	Hardware: My computer is manufactured by Scarsdale Computers (281-464-9415). It is a Pentium MMX 200MHz with 64MB EDO RAM, Tyan piece of crap motherboard, Western Digital 4GB and 3.1GB HDDs, Trident 9685 PCI 2MB video card, Mitsumi 32X CD-ROM, Yamaha 16-bit sound card, Iomega parallel port ZIP drive (it's actually pretty fast if the parallel port is on ECP mode!), Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 660C, Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 6L, Mag Innovision DX-15T monitor, 3COM 900XL 10-BaseT PCI Ethernet card, and a US Robotics 33.6K voice modem. Software: I use Allaire Homesite 3.01 for the HTML itself. It is the best code-based HTML editor on the market. (WYSIWYG editors are for sissies.) I use Corel Photo-Paint 8.369 to handle all my bitmap graphics. Both of these applications run on top of Windows 98. Web server: The site uses an Apache web server running off of a UNIX machine at SMU. I use server-side includes with some of the pages.
How did you create the VIN decoder?	I programmed it myself using Microsoft J++ 1.1. I wrote it in Java SDK 1.0 to maintain compatibility with most web browsers out there.