About (long old version)RAM Networks is a network of websites that are owned and maintained by me, Robert Alex Marder. These sites are projects of mine alone, and while many are good quality, as of late some have been abandoned, and the survivors have very slow update cycles. Update: The sites have come back to life this summer, as I have lots of time for stuff like this over the summer break. All the sites are in the process of being rewritten and upgraded. Currently two sites are done with this process - FreeProgs.us.tt and ralexwebs.us.tt - and the rest should soon to follow (when I get more time). About Gamer.us.ttGamer.us.tt is an great free gamer site with no membership requirements or bloated advertisements. The user will not jump through hoops to get to the games, either. Please note that none of the games on Gamer.us.tt were developed by Gamer.us.tt or RAM Networks. The games are listed in a directory fashon, with the diffrence that the game informations are much more detailed than any internet directory I know of, and that all the games are hosted on the RAM Network servers, rather than hotlinked from other sites and servers. This is done to ensure reliability and to be nice to the Internet. I have personally tried and determined what makes it into the game lists, so the games are actually of quality. Gamer.us.tt is also the only online game site I know of where all the games are playable in full screen mode - something quite uncommon in online gaming - esp. free online gaming. About KnowItAll.net.tcThis site serves as an information resource and contains vast stores of knowledge that few people know. This site also contains famous literature from authors aplenty. Please note that some of the knowledge on this site may be obsolete or incorrect. Although the owner of RAM Networks has taken steps to insure correctness, incorrectness may be present. RAM Networks nor its owners may be held responsible if any such incorrectness is relied upon. That said, if you find an error with any of the information therein please contact the webmaster. Be sure to include the information page in question as well as its corrected data and the source of such corrected data (the proofs) and the data will be corrected promptly. History of RAM NetworksRAM Networks was founded in 1999 by me, Robert Alex Marder, and at the moment is an unregistered service mark / mark of trade as proclaimed by me, Robert Alex Marder. Since late 2005 RAM Networks has had a logo, and since Jan 2008 RAM Networks lives at www.ramnetworks.info - both help to solidify this claim of mark. RAM Networks is a network of websites that are owned and maintained by me, Robert Alex Marder. These sites are projects of mine alone, and while many are good quality, as of late some have been abandoned, and the survivors have slow update cycles. The first site that became part of the RAM Networks was put online in 1999 as http://Gamer.got.to, now (as of 2003) called http://Gamer.us.tt. Since then, this site has changed webhosts numerous time due to too many adverts, not enough bandwidth, slowness, and webhosts dissapearing. In 2003 I found an excellent web host and all the bandwidth I could ever need, plus I found a great web alias company that does webaliases without popup adverts. That webhost was http://www.freewebs.com and the web alias company was and is http://www.joynic.com. I was quite content except for one thing: http://Gamer.us.tt was growing in size, and as it grew it became harder and harder to administer, or update, the pages. Plus, I soon found out that that webhost only allowed 100 files to be stored on their server on free accounts. So I went back to searching some more and came across my current and very highly reccomended webhost (as of 2006) http://www.awardspace.com. Now I really had something - a great network of professional websites all operating at no cost to me (this was and still is a hobby of mine as I am not that wealthy, plus I am somewhat a "cheap" person.) In January 2008 the sites were moved again for the last time. They now live on my computer and are self-hosted (technically they are hosted by RAM Networks Hosting, but who's counting). All the websites were moved to http://www.awardspace.com in 2006 and updated to use PHP server-side technology. This allowed me to implement a custom-designed templating system that was very effective and very good, although it took me longer to complete than I had planned. Now, the new templating system, implemented in January 2007, was in use and was implemented on ralexwebs.us.tt, KnowItAll.net.tc, and Gamer.us.tt. I soon realised, to my dismay, that I had gone about my design and format all wrong, and maintenence was not as easy as I has planned. In late January 2007 I began migrating into a wiki system that lasted until I had something good to replace the old method with. From Feb to July I developed a custom content management system called RAM-CMS on my local development server, dyn.robertmarder.info. In July 2007, when I was pleased with what I had, a partial FreeProgs.us.tt was migrated into RAM-CMS with great success. Right now, FreeProgs.us.tt and ralexwebs.us.tt have been migrated successfully into RAM-CMS, while Gamer.us.tt and KnowItAll.net.tc are still using the old hard to maintain first attempt solution that does not scale, downgrade, and somewhat breaks in Internet Explorer. I am working on migrating these sites too, but that will take some time (they have been partially migrated). The old websites (pre-new design) are still around where RAM-CMS migration has yet to occur. In future I hope to setup an archive of RAM Networks through the years (I still have all the original site code, along with each major revision thereafter (2003,2005)). Browser SupportAny HTML compliant browser should work, text and graphic-based. CSS is used to style aspects of this site, but browsers with partial or lacking CSS support still work nicely. For graphical browsers, this site requires at least 640x480 pixels screen resolution, but 800x600 or higher is suggested. As of 2008, a browser capable of handling XHTML 1.0 is preferred (the websites are being migrated to XHTML 1.0 - it's almost a ten year old standard so it should be well supported by all). Considering I cannot test this site in every single browser around (test - I could not even locate them all!) I have instead a list of browsers which I do test this website in. The following OS / Browser combinations are tested and known to work with this website:
Disclaimer: All Trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Use of these marks here does not imply endorsement of any kind from said owners. All Copyrights on the above software are owned by their respective authors. Developer / Technical InformationThe markup code that this site is composed of is very compact and very efficent. This site does not have "filler" or unneccesary code that slows down the users browser (and computer), plus if you view the source in your browser you can see that the code is so compact it all fits on one line! (Note: Windows Notepad may make it appear on many lines due to line length limits). The RAM Networks of sites is developed on a PC running Debian GNU/Linux. Local testing is also done on this machine, including some MS Windows testing (via virtual machine software - I use VirtualBox and QEMU). This site is written in the PHP 3/4/5 language and hosted on an Apache web server also running a variant of GNU/Linux. No SQL database is used at all. This site is written in standards-compliant HTML (not XHTML, as is now used on many modern sites) and CSS 2.0. This site downgrades very nicely to older browsers that do not support CSS very well or at all. All of the code behind the RAM Network of Sites was composed in my favorite plain text editor - gedit. To make my life much easier, the RAM Network of Sites are contained in my own custom content management system, written and designed from scratch by moi. RAM CMS is available for free from my free programs website, [link=freeprogs/]FreeProgs[/url]. Server InformationObsolete What is so good about the RAM Network Sites?Here is a list of a few things that make ralexwebs.us.tt and all the other RAM Networks sites better than typical web sites:
No Bloated Advertisements - All the goodies on my site are hosted and powered by excellent free technologies and while I enjoy mastering these sites, free offerings do not pay the bills. This site has simple text adverts provided by Google. I have them positioned out of the way so as to not cause a headache while viewing my site. No Bulky Javascript - This site does not contain a single piece of bloated Javascript anywhere! This is good because history shows us that Javascript is a leading (perhaps number one) cause of browser security holes. This site does not depend on Javascript at all, so those that care deeply about security can safely turn off scripting in their browser, and does not force those that already have scripts disabled to re-enable them. The Javascript that is present is very short and sweet and is compliant to Javascript 1.0 or perhaps 1.2 - I have yet to check. Another good benefit is that because there is no bulk scripting on this site, it keeps this site working with older browsers and older machines of which bulk Javascript would cause to freeze or crash or just screw up. It also lessens the chances of both browser and operating system incompatibility. The only usage of Javascript as of this writing is a simple frame breaker and the hit counter. No Cookies - There are absolutely no cookies of any kind used on my sites. 100 Percent Hand-Crafted Standards-Compliant HTML and CSS - This site is perhaps the only network of many sites (a portal) that is coded in 100 percent standards-compliant W3C-happy HTML and CSS. The sites downgrade gracefully to be compatible with text-based browsers as well as old graphical browsers! HTML is validated against the W3C validator for standard-ness. Also, this site does not require CSS support to be of use (although not having CSS support will reduce the quality of the site.) The site also scales very well across diffrent screen resolutions - the lowest screen resolution needed is 640x480, but 800x600 is suggested, and the higher the better. Compact / Efficent Codebase - The markup code that this site is composed of is very compact and very efficent. This site does not have "filler" or unneccesary code that slows down the users browser (and computer), plus if you view the source in your browser you can see that the code is so compact it all is on one line! (Windows Notepad may make it appear on many lines due to line length limits). Future Coding StandardBecause the W3C and the browser makers are not in agreement with XHTML 2 and XHTML 1.1 has yet to be supported, the future of the coding standards of this site are very simple: Makepages work with the lowest version of HTML practically possible, but also have pages structured so that XHTML is supported - use CSS to aid in this process as needed. In order to accomplish this, all RAM Network sites will be directly written in BBCode and translated by a BBCode parser of my creation and design (currently this is done on-the-fly by RAM-CMS). Currently the lowest level of support practical to provide is HTML 4.0. This was made effective in early 2007 as it had been 10 years since HTML 3.2 (the former minimum). HTML 4.01 Transitional will from now on be the lowest minimum and will persist for as long as possible (at which time we will migrate to HTML 5 Transitional, XHTML 5 Transitional, or XHTML 1.0 Transitional, depending on how things turn out in the future (do not expect this to happen before the 10 year mark of HTML 4 in 2009)). Although Transitional will be the doctype of choice, all pages will be as strict as possible (in effect being both strict and transitional). Pages that are already strict or that can be made strict without compromising legacy compatability will be given the strict DTD. |
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