| I officially took over as webmaster for LANDMARQ in 1999 following it's original inception by the Dutch Progressive Rock Page approximately two years earlier. All content was supplied by LANDMARQ. Thanks
to Jerry van Kooten, Rene Janssen, Jan-Jaap de Haan, Hans van der Leden and the DPRP for their initial help in the sites early days. The Spiral Staircase website itself is a non-profit facility set up in order to promote LANDMARQ on the World Wide Web. No sponsors or third-party advertisers are directly involved with the site apart from a single active banner from Amazon.co.uk which is placed near the bottom of the 'Merchandise' page. Links are also provided on this page to GFT-Cyclops Ltd, the bands UK label and distributor. Other distributors/suppliers are listed on the website 'Links' page. The website has been designed with three basic factors in mind: :: informative - to provide comprehensive and accurate information about LANDMARQ :: speed - to ensure pages and images download at fastest possible speeds (allowing for individual visitors systems, service providers and general internet traffic) :: accessibility - to allow as wide a range of visitors as possible to access the website; keeping text legible and not spread across the full width of the viewing screen; providing alt-text where images are not supported in viewers browsers. The website is tested in Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera browsers at screen resolutions of 800x600 (recommended) and 1024x768 and aside from minor differences (due to these companies generally not working with each other!) the site should mostly appear the same in design in each of them. Due to the ever-decreasing use of 640x480 monitor resolutions, the website is not optimised for this setting. However, for those older systems still utilising 640x480, most of the website should still be accessible. If, for any reason, you are having problems viewing any page(s) of this website, please do let me know. Software currently used in the design of 'The Spiral Staircase' varies between a basic text editor (Notepad, EditPad) to Microsoft FrontPage 2000 and Dreamweaver 4. Images are processed in either Photoshop, Photo Impact, IrfanView and one or two other program(me)s. Text-based page headings are mostly created in Xara 3D or Photoshop. Animated images have been kept to a minimum as these can be very distracting to the reader. Flash animation is not used on the website at the moment, though Javascript is employed throughout. If you have any comments or questions regarding 'The Spiral Staircase' website, etc., please contact me. ©Steve Gee, 1999-2004. You can submit a problem report form here
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