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For those of you who may be interested here's an overview of the technology driving this site, and how I'm piecing it all together.
I code everything by hand, because I prefer understanding and having as much control over my code as possible. Besides, I like my source code to be clean, commented, and easily readable. (Take a look.)
I also build my sites with web standards and best practices in mind. So I try to make best use of some of the more professional and robust frameworks. To the right you can find out more about those technologies.
Front-End Resources
- XHTML / CSS - Stating the obvious.
- 960 Grid System - CSS framework in lieu of tables (24-column).
- jQuery - For rock solid, cross-browser compatible JavaScript effects.
- @font-face - For headers. The font is League Gothic.
- swfobject - For loading Flash files in a clean, standards compliant fashion.
- JW FLV Player - Skin-able flash video player I'm using for streaming self-hosted video files.
Server-Side Resources
- CodeIgniter - Model-View-Controller PHP framework that runs everything but the blog.
- WordPress - For powering the blog. The template is custom, and built to include the same CodeIgniter views as the rest of the site.
Web Hosting
- Dreamhost (affiliate link) - My hosting provider since early 2005. In my humble opinion I think everything they offer for shared hosting is a great bang for the buck.
Design and Development Tools
- Adobe Creative Suite - Layout, graphics, and navigation design.
- Notepad++ - Lightweight, open source, text editor geared for programming.
- FileZilla - Open source FTP client.
- FireBug - I can no longer live without this aforementioned plugin.
