Nyack HS Class of '55

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About the Nyack HS Class of '55 website. When I first received the letter about the Class of '55 reunion from Bob Merkert back in August, I decided that I would go to this one since I hadn't been to any of the previous ones due to shift work and/or lack of interest. I sent in my highlights page to Bob, and in it, mentioned that I did web pages as a hobby. Bob immediately jumped on that and asked if I would design a web page for the reunion. His suggestion was that we register the site and get a web hosting service. Bob then registered Nyack55.com and we decided to go with a pay as you go web hosting service. He signed up with A1webserver.com to host our site and I uploaded all the pages to them on the 13th of October. About the design and images. The pages were designed for viewing at a display size of 800 x 600 and up. They are viewable by either Netscape or MSIE as far as I know. I don't know how they might display with Opera or other browsers. Since I use Netscape, I design for Netscape and check in MSIE to see that everything works. The only thing with MSIE that I can see is that the rollover buttons do not change fast enough when clicking on them as they do in Netscape. I created most of the images on the pages which include the banner, link buttons, the 1955-2000 animation, the carved 'In Memorium' title image, the yellow notebook backgrounds on the highlights pages and the pen and pencil with the "Nyack High School Class of '55" lettering. I put the pencil on the guys pages cause we're not as neat as the gals and we make more mistakes.<g> About the banner. I created the banner from a collage of yearbook photos. I tried to select pics of groups of classmates which were closely bunched to fit within the banner. I selected the pic of Allison and Stephanie at the bonfire mainly because of the saddle shoes! I also included some pics of cars of the period to date the collage (as if the saddle shoes weren't a hint!). About the Indian patch. Bob sent me a picture of the "Nyack Indians" patch which had GO, for General Organization on the headband. I removed the GO to make the patch more non-specific to any organization or team. I don't know how politically correct the image is today, but it was the emblem of the day so I included it. I see that the current Nyack HS patch is less cartoonish and more like the Indian head on the Nickel. Current Nyack HS emblem. About the background of the page. The home page background was created by scanning the yearbook cover and selecting some footprints and sand from the scan to make a small image that tiled when placed on the web page. I then reduced the brightness and contrast of the image and made another background image for the documents pages. About the Highlights pages. If you sent in your 'Highlights since 55' document and/or a 'Now' picture, I made a page for you and colored your yearbook photo and included it on the page. If you sent in neither then I didn't make a page.

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