About this site-

updated Nov 2006

Size: 13.5M bytes, The total size of this web site as of Nov 2006. This website was started in 1998 and it’s size was 6.5Mbytes

Web pages: 67 *.htm web site documents. (37 in 1998)

Images: There are 410 .jpg images in this site. (229 *.jpeg photographs and drawings in 1998).

Sounds: 19 *.wav sound files generate greetings, music

and humorous sidebars in this site.

Server : Adelphia State College Pa (1998 -Vicon Networks, State College PA)

My Computer: Gateway 700 Series Tower, 2000Mhz Pentium V, 2 – 10G HD’s, Cable Modem by Adelphia, (Dialup 56K modem in1998)

2000Mbyte Ram (64M ram in 1998) 2 monitors using dual video card Liquid Video LCD and Viewsonics A75F crt type (1998:14" monitor, 32X CD, sound/video cards etc. )

Software used to make this web site:

I wrote this web site in HTML code alone in 1998. It have been update many times and now I

use some Windows software for generating html pages for some pages (Especially Poems and pages using mostly text)

For 95% of this website I did not use

web site development software. I

want my site to be personal, inviting and have a homemade

look. My daughter Allison (11yrs in 1998) did most of the hot link icons

and other drawings.

Photographs:

You may have noticed that this site is mainly a photographic

summary of the life and times of Paul Ruby. Most of the

photos are presented in thumbnail (small photos of 2K)

and full size renditions. Luckily I have shot and collected

thousands of photographs over the past 25 years. I have

read that site visitors do not want to read, that they want

to look at photos. Since photographs typically are 20-50K

the loading time is sometimes slow. I have broken large

photo laden pages into multiple pages to help reduce the

loading time. Thumbnail photographs also help reduce

loading time.

Cameras used in this web site:

In 2006 I use a digital Canon SLR for quick pictures but my art photos are from film cameras. Sinar 8x10 and Mamiya 7, Diana 6x6 mostly.

In 1998 I used two 35mm cameras and one 1/4" camera were used for

the majority of the photos in this site (with the exception of photography

section, see below)

1. Canon Sure Shot 35mm
1992 vintage
2. Nikon FE w/55 or 35mm lens
3. Rollieflex SLX SLR.
4. 8 x 10 " Deardorff view camera. Most of the photos in the photography section of this site were shot with an 8x10" Deardorff view camera. Manufactured in 1964 this large wooden camera produces original photographic prints unsurpassed in value, detail, resolution, clarity and richness. This print quality is not apparent on computer screens.

Many of the earlier images were scanned directly from the 35mm

proof sheet and not from enlargements. You can tell by the poor quality when I’ve done that.

All of the black and white photos have been developed and

printed my self.

Image quality:

For a reason that I cannot explain the black and white

photographs from 1998 to 2000 in this site have less resolution and clarity

than the color photos. This is not the case in the original

photos. I am still working on this. Will experiment and

get back to you!

- Paul