Contact Information

Pepino's contact information.

Pepino's is presently located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
San Francisco, California
Photo of San Francisco taken by my good friend Richard Kirkham.

I am originally from beautiful Ringwood, New Jersey.

Photo of my parent's house taken by my father.

Send an email to the admin if you have questions or comments about this web site.

Note: To combat Spam, email addresses on this web site are converted to HTML entities using SpamStopper. This makes life harder for evil spambots and harvesting spiders. I hope it doesn't create problems for any real people. If you cannot use the email links, let me know by sending an email to admin9 who is at pepino dot com. Get it?

Resume

My resume is available here in either Microsoft Word, Text, or HTML.

Site Information

This site is maintained with an Apple Blue & White 400 MHz G3, running Mac OS X. The main softwares I use are the excellent text editor BBedit (of course!) to write the HTML, check the syntax, and even edit pages on the server, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to do any image creation and manipulation, and Interarchy for uploading and maintaining this site. Any screen captures for documentation are done in Snapz Pro X, the greatest screen capture utility I've ever used.

The reason I use Cascading Style Sheets on my site is so that I can control the look of it easily. A change on just the one style sheet changes the look of the whole site. Also, if a web browser doesn't understand CSS, it will ignore it and only display the straight HTML. It's the browsers that partially support CSS that give the most trouble. Also, I'm using XHTML for future compatibility.

Here is a heavily commented version of Pepino's old style sheet you can use and learn from (my mistakes). My good friend Ramsey told me to always document the things I do. Thanks, pal.

Browser compatibility testing is validated using the built-in syntax checking facilities of BBedit and the validation services of the web sites World Wide Web Consortium and Bobby. But no matter how clean your code can be, it will probably look different on different browsers. So to see if it is actually usable to others, here are the browsers I look at it with from time to time:

Mac OS X
- Safari: This is my main browser in Mac OS X. I like it's speed and the way it renders the pages I view. Firefox is getting my attenion more though lately.
- Firefox: A great standards compliant browser. Also, through the use of extensions, this browser is great for working with your code. Two extensions I love are EditCSS and Web Developer. If you haven't tried Firefox, you should.
- Internet Explorer 5.x: I still use this good browser from Microsoft from time to time. It's too bad they quit developing it. It renders the fonts a little larger on the Mac then older browsers did so that they will display more closely to the way they would on a PC. So if it looks okay here, I figure that it should work for about 90% of my viewers.
- Lynx 2.8.4: A text-only browser. Old machines, libraries (still stuck with old machines), and real geeks still use this. I run this from Terminal in Mac OS X.

Mac OS 9 (Classic)
- Internet Explorer 3.01a: Microsoft's first browser for the Mac that was any good. Netscape was still better at the time.
- Netscape Communicator 4.7: As a version of this comes with Mac 8.x and 9.x installs, many Mac users could still be using it. It renders fonts the older Mac way - small.
- Netscape Navigator 3.04: From when Netscape ruled the airwaves.
- NCSA Mosaic 2.0.1 PPC: Things certainly look different here. Mosaic is the browser that started the excitement of the web and spawned off the imitators.
- MacWebE.PPC 1.1.1E: This browser works on old Classic Macs for those people who are determined to keep them going. Bravo.
- WebTV Viewer: To give me a good idea of what it will look like on WebTV. After I think it works okay, I ask my sister to look at it from a real WebTV. Thanks, Anne-Marie!

Windows
- Windows 95/IE 3.01: Using VirtualPC. Many PCs are still running with this configuration.
- Windows NT/IE 4.01: Using VirtualPC. A poplular business combination.
- Windows 2000/IE 5: Using a real PC. The second most hits my site gets comes from this combination.

Here is a screen shot of an earlier version of this page in MacWeb, NSCA Mosaic, Netscape, WebTV Viewer, Internet Explorer, and Lynx. As you can see, while everyone can get the same info, the presentation can vary greatly.

If you are interested in testing your own web pages, you can get just about any web browser ever released from the evolt Browser Archive.

Plus there are always those side trips to web sites who write about producing accessible web pages, books to read, and input from friends. In the end, I hope this site is usable for anyone visiting it. Looking at my page stats, I've had people visiting Pepino's using Lynx, Netscape 1, and other oldies.

When I have time to check my grammar, I use Karen Elizabeth Gordon's excellent The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed. But even so, words like youse [sic] - Northern New Jersey dialect for plural of you - are still part of my English. I've also noticed that the HTML entity em dash (—) appears as code in some older browsers. So I'll just have to use the plain dash for all dashes.

That's about it. Take care and enjoy!