Make an Impact, Leave an Impression!

Good Early Morning - Wow, you're up late! -- It's 1:34 a.m. on Monday, February 6,
(here in Southern California).

We are Design Professionals

A decade ago the advent of "Desktop Publishing" threatened the extinction of Design professionals. According to the product hype, Joe Sixpack could now produce with his computer and laser-printer what only the professionals had been able to do!

What Joe (and Jill and many like them) discovered, however, is that the "magic" of design is not in the software but in the mindware of the designer. Desktop publishing spawned a lot of really bad design that, ironically, made professional designers (and the Companies that hired them) look all the better!

Desktop Web Design is the latest "anybody-can-do-it" craze, and tragically, the Web is littered with good intentions that yielded really bad design.

The good news for Web Design Professionals and the Companies that hire them is this: the best stand out from the rest.

Visit a few sites we have created:

Chiron Vision Corporation

An extensive website for a leading Manufacturer of high-tech surgical devices and supplies for Ophthalmologists and Refractive Surgeons.

Avery Dennison Corporation

A new website for the Fortune 500 Company
known for their Labels, and a lot more.

We are Dynamic Programmers

What you actually see when you visit a website is the Browser-HTML partnership (your browser interprets the HTML code and "builds" a page, placing text, images, tables and special-tag items accordingly). HTML, like some blondes, is pretty, but not very smart.

What you can't see, yet what often determines the power and the longterm utility of a website, is the Server-CGI partnership. CGI scripts provide a quantum leap in the range of functionality for a website. They allow an endless array of powerful options that can create user-interactivity, customized HTML-on-the-fly, database-driven applications, and the "cool" without which web-sites become cobweb-sites.

Take a look at some CGI scripts written by Rhino Media Group:

The CATALY$T Web Commerce System is a brand new program for establishing catalog-style storefronts. From a single database file CATALY$T creates HTML on-the-fly, and features the ability to embed multiple options within a single item (e.g. 4 colors and 4 sizes can be included in a single, rather than 16, items), "bundle" items for special pricing, jump banners to advertise specials, multiple modes of shipping, ability to recognize and compute volume discounts, a powerful search engine, total configurability of the database, appearance, order form, and email notification of order (in addition to all the ordinary shopping-cart program features). A store is configured and customized with the Cataly$t Admin Program.

The Avery Dennison Home Page is actually a Perl script which detects the Browser software being used in order to select the appropriate HTML page: an animation-rich page is displayed to Browsers which correctly interpret GIF89 images (i.e. Netscape 2.0 and higher, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0); a static version is displayed to animationally-challenged browsers.

The Cyberhino Beauty Pageant detects and records the selection the viewer makes; records the users "vote" in a log; and, calculates, tabulates, stores the results, and awards the current 1st, 2nd, 3rd (recognizing ties, of course). Each selection is first compared against the pageant log, in order to disallow excessive repeat entries (and alert the user that he/she may vote only once per hour).

The Chiron Vision Sales Representatives System generates look-up/communicate custom pages for each of about 80 Sales Reps. Instead of creating individual HTML pages (and manually updating each one as address or territory data changes), each page is created on-the-fly by referring to a single database which is stored on the server (and easily updatable via the Web through another script, which for security reasons, we can't show you).

The Match Game is similar to the old game of "Concentration." The user selects an image, attempts to locate its twin and, if successful, the pair remains uncovered (and a brief description of the uncovered item is displayed). The tile arrangement is unique each game, and the program "remembers" the version and state of the game between guesses, creating an impression of interactivity with the program. (It's also cheat-proof, but that's a long explanation!)

The Logo Puzzle is actually a form of torture that even the programmer can't finish, but it's an amusing display of Web-based interactivity for the patient and not-easily-frustrated. The first 50 winners will see a form for entering mailing information in order to receive a prize.

The Wisdom Page is created by a script which randomly selects then displays 3 quotations from the Book of Proverbs. The page also links to The Daily Email Wisdom-gram subscription form which automatically adds a subscriber to the distribution list (disallowing duplicates, of course). Another script automatically generates Email to the entire subscription list early each day when the Server traffic is light. The subscription list can also be edited from the Web through a database manager script.

For information, elaboration or artful obfuscation
Email	webmaster@cyberhino.com
Phone	909/677-2656 or 909/593-5062

	The CATALY$T Web Commerce System is a brand new program for establishing catalog-style storefronts. From a single database file CATALY$T creates HTML on-the-fly, and features the ability to embed multiple options within a single item (e.g. 4 colors and 4 sizes can be included in a single, rather than 16, items), "bundle" items for special pricing, jump banners to advertise specials, multiple modes of shipping, ability to recognize and compute volume discounts, a powerful search engine, total configurability of the database, appearance, order form, and email notification of order (in addition to all the ordinary shopping-cart program features). A store is configured and customized with the Cataly$t Admin Program.
	The Avery Dennison Home Page is actually a Perl script which detects the Browser software being used in order to select the appropriate HTML page: an animation-rich page is displayed to Browsers which correctly interpret GIF89 images (i.e. Netscape 2.0 and higher, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0); a static version is displayed to animationally-challenged browsers.
	The Cyberhino Beauty Pageant detects and records the selection the viewer makes; records the users "vote" in a log; and, calculates, tabulates, stores the results, and awards the current 1st, 2nd, 3rd (recognizing ties, of course). Each selection is first compared against the pageant log, in order to disallow excessive repeat entries (and alert the user that he/she may vote only once per hour).
	The Chiron Vision Sales Representatives System generates look-up/communicate custom pages for each of about 80 Sales Reps. Instead of creating individual HTML pages (and manually updating each one as address or territory data changes), each page is created on-the-fly by referring to a single database which is stored on the server (and easily updatable via the Web through another script, which for security reasons, we can't show you).
	The Match Game is similar to the old game of "Concentration." The user selects an image, attempts to locate its twin and, if successful, the pair remains uncovered (and a brief description of the uncovered item is displayed). The tile arrangement is unique each game, and the program "remembers" the version and state of the game between guesses, creating an impression of interactivity with the program. (It's also cheat-proof, but that's a long explanation!)
	The Logo Puzzle is actually a form of torture that even the programmer can't finish, but it's an amusing display of Web-based interactivity for the patient and not-easily-frustrated. The first 50 winners will see a form for entering mailing information in order to receive a prize.
	The Wisdom Page is created by a script which randomly selects then displays 3 quotations from the Book of Proverbs. The page also links to The Daily Email Wisdom-gram subscription form which automatically adds a subscriber to the distribution list (disallowing duplicates, of course). Another script automatically generates Email to the entire subscription list early each day when the Server traffic is light. The subscription list can also be edited from the Web through a database manager script.