About Dragon Under Glass

Quality Writing, Production, and Technology Services

Dragon Under Glass began as a writing services company in 1993. It has since expanded to production and technology services.

With a solid foundation in writing and editing, our departments produce quality results for organizations like Intermedia, NASA, IBM, Sharp, and FedEx.

Here There Be Dragons

The dragon has been both a positive and a negative symbol throughout many cultures. Here, we focus on the positive.

At Dragon Under Glass, the dragon is a metaphor for the turbulent forces of creativity and everything associated with it: emotion, strength, truth, inspiration, and fire.

The glass encasing the dragon is control, which writers and designers attempt to exert over creativity. It is also the focusing lens--of the eye, of the camera, of the monitor, or of the lightbulb.

Glass can reflect, scatter, or project a true image. It can focus on pieces of an image for emphasis.

Dragon Under Glass strives to bring creativity into focus for you.

Technical Information About the Dragon Under Glass Web Site

Although we much prefer to "hand code" HTML, the layout of this Web site was an experiment with Adobe ImageReady and was not hand-coded. Our hand-coded material is generally much cleaner.

ImageReady is an old-fashioned utility which saves time when cutting up a complex image for the Web.

It automatically creates tables and HTML, and it even writes JavaScript mouseovers for you, but you have to know what you're doing to fix errors when it makes mistakes. For example, if you use an apostrophe in an image's "message" attribute (which for usability's sake should be a "title" attribute in an HREF tag, but instead affects the status bar), ImageReady does not "escape" the apostrophes and thus creates JavaScript errors on your page.

Also, the HTML output under default settings violates many good programming practices, causing HTML validators to choke. We found it better than most automatically generated HTML, and you can change some of the options to get better code.

All in all, an impressive tool for its time.