The Woman In White

About This web site
www.thewomaninwhite.info

The core of this Woman In White web site was built by one person, (me), between 6th  and 9th December, 2005. I added a subdirectory designed to serve academic researchers on 12th December, and by the time you read this the section may have been further expanded.

Site Building Utilities

It is only the second site that I have produced using XSite Pro, which is dedicated software designed to make creating web sites easy.

The main pages, like the one you're reading are custom made. The sales pages however utilise one of the many excellent templates bundled with XSite Pro. You can learn about these and other features of software with this XSite Pro Video presentation.

www.thewomaninthite.info resolves well in both Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.

The feasibility, and profitability research for the site used a free tool called Search It. This tool is one of many available at SiteBuildIt. I also used some ideas from one of SBI's free books called 'The Netwriting Master's Course'. and another titled the 'Affiliate Masters Course' .

SiteBuildIt is a marvelous resource if you are just starting out on the web. Indeed my experience with SBI really helped in the design of www.thewomaninwhite.info, even though I built it in XSite Pro. Simply building a pretty web site isn't enough, without traffic your web site might as well not exist. SBI web sites get traffic and here's the proof

SiteSell has a friendly staff who are always available to answer your questions about any of their products.

After many positive experiences with SBI I was skeptical when I heard of the claims made for XSite Pro, but I decided to try it.

XSite Pro is quite simply superb. Almost everything that SBI offers can be delivered by XSite Pro at a fraction of the cost. Even Search Engine optimisation is offered. The major differences between the two methods of building a web site, are firstly, SBI hosts your web site on its servers, whereas XSitePro may be hosted anywhere. SBI servers are reliable, with XSite Pro you are only as good as your hosting company. Secondly, SBI automatically submits your web site updates to all the major search engines, including Google. XSite Pro automatically builds a Google Site Map, but you will have to promote your web site to the other search engines using your own expertise, which can be a time consuming and unpredictable business.

However, whilst no doubt I could have built 'a website' about 'The Woman In White' using SiteBuildIt, Undoubtedly I couldn't have built 'this website'. SBI simply isn't sufficiently flexible to build a website with the depth, and number of subdirectories essential for your navigational convenience you will find at www.thewomaninwhite.info.

I have also found the after sales support from XSite Pro Staff to be excellent, and less formal than those at SBI.

Graphics Utilities

The illustrations for the web site were produced using a variety of means. Images were painted and then scanned before being manipulated in Adobe Photoshop 7. The artwork is therefore my copyright unless otherwise stated. 

Some research into, for example costume, was made using a variety of sources including the Internet. Care was been taken to avoid encroaching upon the copyright of others. But inevitably some of the images are derived from those encountered, since we no longer wear the cuts and styles of the 1850s.

Where necessary tracings were made by hand simply in order to preserve the authenticity of the images and then coloured. In this way the headers and other illustrations were made. The picture of 'Limmeridge House' in the header is taken partly from a photograph of a house that I encountered some years ago in England's Lake District, but I have placed it in a different setting using Adobe PhotoShop.

The only exceptions to the policy of using original artwork policy has been with 'The Woman In White' Film Pages, and also the illustration of Garibaldi's reception in London in the literary criticism.  The pictures of 'The Women In White', or rather the actresses who starred in the movies or television dramatizations are used here as ‘fair use’ under U.S.C. Section 107 for news reportage purposes only, to illustrate various points made in the article. Text and images available over the Internet may be subject to copyright and other intellectual rights owned by third parties.

'Walter Hartright', in the header is based upon a photograph of the 19th Century Educationalist 'John Ruskin', 'Marian Halcombe' and 'Laura Fairlie' in the picture were inspired by an illustration found at www.ezhomearts.com, and then repainted for the website. Theirs is a wonderful resource for graphics in the Victorian style, and the images on their CDs are copyright free!

The eBook covers and boxes are easily made using a utility such as  'Killer Covers', and a little inginuity .

I am can afford to build information web sites such as thewomaninwhite.info because I also derive income from various affiliate schemes.

 
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Incidentally I live in a beach house just twelve miles north of Rhodes, which is an island in the Eastern Mediterranean. You may review all of the programs to which I am affiliated at www.QuietQuality.com

If you wish to contact me in order to discuss this web site, or any other matter then please do so via the contact link at the bottom of this page.