QueenBoots Credits - Just a thank you


Credits

Below is a list of thank yous (in no particular order and probably not everyone) that are necessary to get out there so that there is no ambiguity as to who deserves credit (if you have not been credited for content that you feel is yours, please let us know via the contact form): -

Huge thanks to the merry band of Beta Testers, who, without any thought of personal gain, spent many hours testing the website. They gave lots of suggestions, helped in finding those pesky bugs, as well as providing lots of resources from fonts to pictures and media to Queen knowledge;
  • beyondthemoon
  • Jordan (Chinwonder2) on YouTube
  • Wesley (Dry Paint Dealer Undr) on YouTube
  • Miles Fernando (manymilesaway) on YouTube
  • Sofia García (littlequeenie97)
  • Kieran (KieranIsHome)
Before we go any further, and even though some are mentioned above and below, there are four key individuals without whom this website would not be here; And now to thank everyone properly;
  • First of all, it goes without saying that profound thanks go out to four gentlemen who transformed the face of rock, those being Messrs Mercury, May, Taylor and Deacon. Please visit the Queen Official Site for the latest news about the band, solo projects, tour dates, official merchandise and much more
  • For the Queen and Media databases, a massive shout out to Bob; owner, writer and editor of the website Queen Live. This entire project was so positively supported by him, and with his encouragement and website (liberally plagiarised, sorry Bob), QueenBoots was born
  • Martin Skála (aka Mr Scully) is a huge contributor to the Queen community. His website QueenConcerts is another massively important resource that provides a wealth of information. This site was, and still is, used to compile all databases and for all tour information, as well as additional images and wording across the Media database. Heartfelt thanks go to him for the sheer amount of work and material contained there
  • IMPORTANT NOTICE: The Queen Discussion Forum is unfortunately permanently closed. BUT, the good news is that a new replacement forum has now entered its testing phase and will be launched soon. As soon as this happens, we will release full details here on QueenBoots
  • Another great site is Queenpedia which also provides solid information and was especially useful for the Pre-Queen database
  • More thank yous go out to Discogs, another website heavily used for detailed bootleg information and some images
  • For information on Queen only bootlegs, a good website is Queen On Stage which again keeps itself up to date with all of the latest Queen bootlegs being released
  • To continue, another good website for all sorts of Queen memorabilia is Queenvinyls
  • The two main websites that provided fantastic resources for development of html and programming in PHP and JavaScript (and so much more) was Stack Overflow and W3Schools
  • All fonts on this site are 'free for commercial use' and are from sites such as 1001 Fonts, Google Fonts and FontSpace.Many thanks to Apostrophic Labs, Kingthings, GUST e-foundry, Sudtipos, xxjjoosengx0xx, Typographer Mediengestaltung, Christian Robertson, Andrew Paglinawan, Sebastian Kosch, anke-art, Manfred Klein, Flanker, Beeline and Colophon
  • Social Media icons are 'Scalable Vector Graphics' by Font Awesome
  • The following CSS, JavaScript and PHP libraries have been used in the creation of QueenBoots;
    • - Materialize CSS - A modern responsive front-end framework (what the site is built on)
    • - PHPMailer - A fully featured email creation and transfer class for PHP (used in the contact form)
    • - jQuery Ripples - A layer of water which will ripple by cursor interaction (used on the maintenance page, just for fun)
    • - sorttable - JavaScript client-side sortable tables (used to sort many tables across the site)
    • - noUiSlider - noUiSlider is a lightweight JavaScript range slider (the new year slider on the search pages)
    • - Jsvectormap - A lightweight JavaScript library for creating interactive maps (the new tour maps page is built on this)
  • The following tutorials and resources have been most helpful;
    • - Oston Code Cypher - Although the video is no longer posted, it was called 'Autocomplete Search Engine using PHP + AJAX + Materialize CSS' (old method used to interact with the database on the old search pages, when searching for country, town/city or venue) - The methods used now are now very distant from this tutorial, but the spirit remains...
    • - Code With Random - Now gone from YouTube, the video called 'Page Turn Latest CSS 3 Animation Effect Learn Website Design' (basic concept used for book effect and page turning of Tour Programs and Fan Club Magazines) - This has been so heavily modified for this site, it no longer looks the same, but the basic concept remains
    • - Den McHenry - Image Zoom & Pan On Hover (used for simple zoom on mouseover when viewing Media images)
  • Finally, a thank you to those whose artwork is used on the maintenance page. There are a number of LEGO® backgrounds (randomly chosen) and these are credited to the following;

It's been no bed of roses, no pleasure cruise...
I thank you all