Webmaster: Rachael Ann Siciliano

(Please note: This site was created specifically for the language lab at UCSB and intended to be used on an 8500 Macintosh with a 17 inch monitor and with Netscape Navigator 3.0. If you have accessed this site from home you may encounter long download times and find that the page layout does not fit your screen.)

Special thanks

To John Shade:

Well, aside from all the "other" things I need to thank you for ... it's been an enormous help having a professional programmer around the house who was willing to offer me expert advice on my UI, even after he had worked in front of a computer screen all day. Thanks, John.

To Jacqueline Simons:

Jacqueline envisioned this project two years ago, tirelessly acquired the funding necessary to see it through, and generously contributed her own invaluable pedagogical experience. Everytime I meet with you, Jacqueline, I come away wiser.

To George Michaels:

I cannot thank you enough, George, for taking me under your wing, showing me the ropes (or should I say "computer cables"), and constantly encouraging my sometimes "inebriated" glee over computers. You won't have to look hard through this site to see how much I've learned in your extension courses and how many times I've "borrowed" code from your own sites. You've been endlessly supportive, encouraging and instructive. If Bill Gates really is the Anti-Christ, then you must be some sort of computer angel.

To The Office of Instructional Consultation, UCSB:

 We are deeply grateful to the Office of Instructional Consultation whose generous support, persistent advice, and relentless encouragement have made this project possible.

To Emma Bland, Budding Webmaster:

 Emma assembled all the content for Menu 2, did a good deal of HTML coding, and drew up worksheets for the students. She also gets kudos for patiently putting up with my overexuberance.

To Roger Billerey:

 Roger edited the whole site, (both the French and the English) provided the content for "langue populaire" and education pages, assisted me with the education pages, recorded numerous voices, and offered countless thoughtful suggestions. What a Whiz! Thank you so much for your help, Roger.

To Chris Siciliano:

 Hi Chris, thanks so much for drawing all the pictures for the expressions idiomatiques page. They look great.

To the Recordng Artists:

 I would like to thank all my recording artists and their dulcet voices: Sophie "the sexy" Tigroudja, Salloua "the serious" Naffati and Roger "Roger" Billerey.

Kevin Kelly

 Hi, Kevin. Thanks for spending so much time helping us with all our recordings. They sound great!

Patty Lamb

 Thank you so much, Patti, for all your help in the Language Lab, training and assisting students to use these pages. We couldn't do this without you.

Materials

Where possible I have given credit to all materials used on the pages they appear. Other sources I wish to cite include:

Various Astérix et Obélix titles.

J.M.G. Le Clézio. La Grande Vie, suivi de Peuple du ciel. Illus. Georges Lemoine. Paris: Gallimard, 1990. (Two of the pictures Georges Lemoine created for this edition appear in this site: the picture of the two girls on this page, and a picture of one of the girls on the menu 3.)

From the following books I borrowed pictures for the videos on Provence and Monaco

Jones, Proctor. Idylls of France. 1982. Moore, Julian. Views from a French Farmhouse. London: Pavilion Books Limited, 1985.
Baring-Gould, S. A Book of the Riviera. London: Methuen and Co., 1905.
Droste, Thorsten. Die Provence. Cologne, Droste, 1986.
Henic, Lionel. La c&ocicr;te d'azur et le pays varois. Rennes: Editions Ouest France, 1995.
France a Culinary Journey. San Fransisco: Collins Publishers, 1992.

Apple Computers

This project was created on a Power Mac 8500. Vive le Mac! It was created for Netscape 3.0 (not some other browser.) Vive Netscape! I used a variety of applications, utilities, and languages including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere (vive Adobe!), Kai's Power Tools (Wow!, what an amazing GUI), BBEdit, SoundEdit, GifBuilder, WebMap, and Javascript.