About

The Creator

The Inferno was created by Max Masnick in 2005 for an AP Senior English project in approximately one week.

The Technology

The graphics in The Inferno were created in Adobe Photoshop. The site is driven by PHP, with a MySQL database to avoid the redundant page creation for all the Circles, Rounds, and Bulgias. It is written in completely non-compliant HTML because when dealing with The Inferno, presentation is much more important than accessibility.

The Sources/Credits

• The quotes from The Inferno are from Ciardi's translation first published in 1954 by the New American Library (New York).
• All graphics were created by Max Masnick.
• The photographs incorporated into the images are from a variety of sources:
• The leopard photo incorporated into the overall structure graphic is from caribbeangardens.com.
• The wolf photo incorporated into the overall structure graphic is from http://www.geocities.com/dragonfuzz13/wolf.
• The lion photo incorporated into the overall structure graphic is from thefreedictionary.com.
• The aspen trees photo incorporated into the Circle VII structure graphic is from rockymtnrefl.com.
• Tthe graphic for Circle VIII is based off a graphic in the previously mentioned print version of The Inferno published in 1982.
• The parchment graphic is based of a purephotoshop.com tutorial.
• The inferno text on the splash page is based off a tutorialwiz.com tutorial.
• All artwork in the Circle/Round/Bulgia pages is by Gustave Dore.