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The LowPower Site

Promoting low-end applications for Web development

Windows Notepad

Notepad is an often-unnoticed, yet long-lasting text editing program that is ubiquitously packaged with Microsoft Windows. Notepad is one of the most popular text editors around and is especially popular among those Windows-using web designers who prefer real, raw HTML design. The Notepad accessory comes with all known versions of Windows.

This is a Lowpower! original button.

This button is believed to have originated from the Team Gates web site.

The only known "Made with Notepad" site, at http://www.teamgates.com/designed/, has been shut down by Microsoft, though the page's owners remain loyal Microsoft groupies.

Link the Notepad button to this site until another page is found.

UW Pico

Pico is a small, simple Unix text editor which is packaged with the PINE email program. Though attacked on one side by the power-users of GNU Emacs and from the other side by the purists of vi, Pico is nevertheless a useful and comparatively robust text editing program with simple commands and speedy operation. This page is normally edited with Pico.

This button is from the Hammered with UW Pico site, which seems to have disappeared. Other pico advocacy has been spotted:
Pico Power found on the Webmasters page at kibbutz.org.il.

Both images were found at The Pico Homepage, which looks like an excellent Lowpower site. This was once at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~ellars/pico.html and was at one point moved to http://ellars.com/whatever/pico.shtml but now cannot be found.

Note: there is now a GNU clone of Pico called Nano. Nano banners will be forthcoming.

GNU Emacs

Emacs, in its many various forms, is a heavily-featured, multi-purpose text editor. GNU Emacs, a product of the Free Software Foundation, is in the public domain and has been modified and repackaged into many different versions, such as XEmacs and Lucid Emacs. In addition to its wide assortment of word processing and automation features, Emacs also offers a specialized scripting language, Elisp, which allows advanced users to create specialized environments and automations for any imaginable text-based format.

Emacs normally operates in Fundamental mode, which is sufficient for most text-based mediums. Configurations of Emacs will often enter SGML mode when editing .html documents, which is even better for HTML work (HTML is a byproduct of the SGML specification). There is also an outdated Elisp script, created in 1992 by NCSA (former keepers of the HTML spec) which was designed for HTML 1.0. (Most Emacs Lisp scripts are also covered under the GNU Copyleft, allowing them to be modified and repackaged by anyone.)

This is a Lowpower! original button.

This image found on the Colophon of The FLINT Project, flint.cs.yale.edu.

Found at Christopher Geib's web site.

No "Made with Emacs" site has been found yet.

vi

vi is an extremely low-end Unix text editing program which has proved useful for many in low-level Unix scripting and "toolkit" style processing. It is the preeminent text editing choice for old-school and diehard Unix purists. Though many complain that the program is daunting, slow, and far too difficult to use, it remains hailed by many elite as the most skill-intensive yet robust text editor in existence. vi is installed with (and used on) virtually every Unix system in the known universe.

This button originated from the "vi Powered!" site. Link it to the vi Powered! site at http://www.darryl.com/vi.html.

Found on the Russian Prodigy page.

Found at The Vi Pages.

TeachText

TeachText is a low-end and low-featured text editor for the Macintosh. Though a standard Mac desk accessory, TeachText is not as ubiquitous nor as often used as Windows Notepad. Many Macintosh power-users, however, especially those with Unix experience, do use TeachText for their HTML coding.

This huge, gaudy logo came from Hank Mitchell's home page. No other specifically "Made with TeachText" logos or pages have been found.

SimpleText

Like TeachText, SimpleText is a low-end text editor for the Macintosh. It is slightly more featured than TeachText and is roughly as common. However, though there is a fringe crusade of people celebrating "Made with Macintosh" pages, there doesnt seem to be any which celebrate TeachText or SimpleText. (Heck, many of those whose pages are "Made with a Mac" may be using MS Word for all anyone knows. [taunting grin])

This button originated from "The Simpletext HTML Movement."

Link the SimpleText button to The SimpleText HTML Movement at http://www.sisna.com/users/virshup/simpletext.html. They have other "Made with SimpleText" banners there.

Windows Paintbrush

On the potential extreme of LowPower web designing is the use of low-end graphics programs to create a web page's visual content. Paintbrush, like Notepad, is a standard accessory packaged with the Windows operating system. Though both 16-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows come with Paintbrush, the 32-bit version is slightly different than the older version, adding some features while removing or obscuring others. Paintbrush is to a graphics program what Notepad is to a word processor. Pixel-by-pixel editing, with some standard cant-live-without functions make Paintbrush a common program for idle doodling and usually non-serious applications. (However, it should be noted that there is a frightening segment of the population which attempts to use Paintbrush for serious artistic or commercial work.)

This is a Lowpower! original button. The original version, in unadulterated BMP format, is also available.

XV

XV is an awkwardly-functioned graphics manipulation program for Unix. Though it is highly limited in its ability to create or modify existing graphics, it includes a number of useful resizing and reformatting features. It is possible however that an original graphic could be made with XV, and improved upon with XV's well-implemented graphics algorithms.

This is a Lowpower! original logo. Sadly, it was not really made with XV.

XPaint

XPaint is the closest Unix analogy to Windows Paintbrush. Somewhat buggy and fairly implemented, this medium-featured drawing program offers similar functionality to Paintbrush, but with a more unwieldy interface.

This is a Lowpower! original logo. It, too, was not made in XPaint, because we're too lazy.

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Please consider (and feel free about) linking to or mirroring the LowPower! site.

	This is a Lowpower! original button.
	This button is believed to have originated from the Team Gates web site.

	This button is from the Hammered with UW Pico site, which seems to have disappeared. Other pico advocacy has been spotted:
	Pico Power found on the Webmasters page at `kibbutz.org.il.`
	Both images were found at The Pico Homepage, which looks like an excellent Lowpower site. This was once at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~ellars/pico.html and was at one point moved to http://ellars.com/whatever/pico.shtml but now cannot be found.

	This is a Lowpower! original button.
	This image found on the Colophon of The FLINT Project, `flint.cs.yale.edu`.
	Found at Christopher Geib's web site.

	This button originated from the "vi Powered!" site. Link it to the vi Powered! site at `http://www.darryl.com/vi.html`.
	Found on the Russian Prodigy page.
	Found at The Vi Pages.