People we’d like to thank:
Mike Fields of blackmarketculture.com - For general php consulting and assorted help while building this site, as well as coding the image viewer for online reading of our books. He rocks. If you’re interested in having a site built, we recommend contacting him. He specializes in sites for artists and is very easy to work with. Furthermore, his image viewer used for displaying our books online is released under gpl - if you’re interested in it, contact us.
Steven Spikoski - For designing our logo.
Christine - for tons of help, advice and other good stuff (especially chocolate chip cookies). If you’re lucky, she may have been the one to pack your book and ship it off to you.
Dischord Records - Throughout my adult life, I’ve pointed to Dischord records as an example of what can be done. I remember the first time I came across a Fugazi cd (that I already owned) at a record store and saw that little bit of info about how you could order it postage paid direct from Dischord. The price was over 7 bucks less than the one in the record store (which is why some record stores cover it with a price tag!). Now, obviously we do business a little different here - but we definitely looked to Dischord for inspiration and guidance. Thank you.
Wordpress - A freely available open source blogging software that serves (with a bit of customization) as the core functionality of this site. support the open source movement in every way you can.
The Wordpress community! Every question answered. All the plug-ins we needed existed before we even knew we needed them.
Simple Machines - The freely available open source forum software package that serves (with a bit of minor customization) as the forums for this site. again, support the open source movement in every way you can. Thanks to everyone involved in that project.
Plug-in Creators
Rob Miller - For his List Subpages plug-in.
Shane Marriott - For his PSX Mail Form plug-in. We had to mod it to do our bidding (multiple, but fixed receipients rather than a drop-down list) but it was easy and he saved us tons of work doing the whole thing ourselves.
Jeff Mikels and Denis de Bernardy - for the Fancy Excerpts plug-in.
Denis de Bernardy - for the Static Home Page plug-in.
Rob Schluter and David B. Nagle - for the Search Pages plug-in.