It all started with version 4 of Dreamveaver and Fireworks, and later the software package was upgraded to Macromedia Studio MX 2004 with Flash.
The aim of the website at present design is to use as little graphics as possible, and to avoid heavy use of tables for positioning. This has been achieved with extended use of Style Sheets, where the basis and examples of Macromedia has been an extreme good help to get this right. At present the use of frames is used a lot, to make the 'dynamics' and presentations to appear in the right places, and to build as many independent pages as possible to ease the update for short and long time.
To add menus both on top and bottom is now done in a way that it takes just a few minutes to add new content. No graphical buttons are used, but some 'icons' and other elements are of course graphics. But most of the graphics is positioned through use of style sheets instead of tables, the exception being the Genealogical Tree pages and Facts pages. These 2 page sets are built on Templates, since the content should be organized the same way each time. One additional design element is also used in a small degree, and that is use of layers...
The alternating pictures on this side is a result of the different classes (styles) in the style sheets. It is basically 2 more or less identical classes but with different 'float' and positioning used.