If I say this site is in beta, can I get some venture capital?
The Basics
This site is marked up in semantic, largely standards-based (but don’t email me about how one of the pages doesn’t validate… CMSs are a bitch, k?) XHTML 1.0 Strict. Cascading Style Sheets make things pretty and interesting. PHP and MySQL, by way of the lovely Textpattern CMS, are the magic bits that make it happen. Javascript makes the neat-o portfolio bits in the Create section work (yeah, FF/Mac users, I know… there’s a bug), and in conjunction with XMLHTTPRequest, it makes the live site search feature work. Ain’t technology grand? Hosting via Site5.com (least ass-tastic host to date!).
The Tools
- Photoshop: main site layout and a portion of the graphics.
- Illustrator: That big grinning git on your left. He’s an Illustrator baby.
- BBEdit: Oh the power and glory of this text editor…
- Interarchy: Best Mac FTP Program. Period.
- OmniGraffle: site flow and wireframes.
- Yojimbo: thought organisation.
- iTunes: sanity.
- Dr. Pepper / Tazo Matcha Green Tea Latte: lucidity.
- Ramen Noodles, soy sauce: budget eating.
- Chop sticks: eating implement of choice. [off track, I know…]
- BlackBerry Pearl: stand-in internet connection when Comcast decided to crap out—which was fairly often.