Site Info
Hosting: k9.dv8.org with thanks to Doug Coker.
Style and Structure
The overriding goal of a long stalled redesign is flexibility. I'd like a site design separate from the software that lies underneath, particularly as I work in fits and starts on that software. Blogs have been a partial influence, largely since I don't find myself writing the longer articles that I would in the past. Alongside, however, is reaching an elegance of simplicity. Simpler mark-up, fast to load. Layout with CSS instead of tables where practical. Ideally, both the XHMTL responsible for the data and the CSS responsible for the layout validate against W3C specifications. A tip of the hat towards Dan Cederholm, Eric Meyer and Jeffery Zeldman for their respective articles that served as reference material and inspiration.
Not having tables and relying on CSS means that some browsers aren't going to show the site as intended. The reference browsers are Safari, Camino, and FireFox. Other Gecko-based browsers should render the site as intended.
Fonts, in order of degradation are Verdana, Arial and generic Sans-Serif.
Software
Most software is written utilizing the ground work of others. Here's the tech that forms the base of the site (or will when the more dynamic pieces are "completed":
- Apache w/ mod_perl
- CGI::Application
- HTML::Template
- DBI
- MySQL
And the stuff that I built the site with:
- Mac OS X
- Bare Bones BBEdit
- Macromedia Fireworks
- Firefox
- Safari
- iPhoto
Reference Material
Books and sites I consulted while building out the site