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This site was originally created in 1997 and was hosted by Demon Internet. During 1999 it was transfered to free homepages provided by Freeserve. At the end of 2000, it was transferred to hosting provided by Xcalibre and moved to it's present domain name of www.ropernet.com. Most recently, in 2004 the site was transferred to hosting provided by Clook. Since it's creation the site has had over 2000 visitors from over 20 different countries.

The site uses a variety of internet technologies including:

HTML - Hypertext Markup Language	Books I recommend on this are: Homepage Usability, New Riders Publishing - Very good high level guidelines on homepages
Java/Javascript - Programming Language	Books I recommend on this are: Pure JFC 2D Graphics and Imaging, Sams - Good guide to Java graphics
PHP - Hypertext preprocessor language	Books I recommend on this are: Beginning PHP4 Programming, Wrox Press Ltd - Good intermediate guide to PHP and MySQL Core PHP programming, Prentice Hall - Good introductory guide to PHP
MySQL - Open source database	Books I recommend on this are: Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, O'Reilly - Consise guide with MySQL content

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