ArtLung Blog

• Blog

Colophon

col·o·phon (kl-fn, -fn) n.

An inscription placed usually at the end of a book, giving facts about its publication.

A publisher's emblem or trademark placed usually on the title page of a book.

• Infrastructure includes:
  • The Internet itself
  • The DNS root nameservers makes domains possible
  • Pairnic rents me the domain name artlung.com
  • pair Networks rents me server space and capabilities
• I share a server with other people, and it makes possible many things:
  • FreeBSD is the UNIX operating system the server runs
  • Apache a web server, actually answers page requests from visitors
  • php is a programming languages that integrates with Apache and makes much nifty stuff possible
  • MySQL runs on yet another box, and makes yet other things possible
• The content itself is composed of many things:
  • HTML and CSS and client-side scripting, which are what the site is made of, and which are edited with:
    • BBedit, a text editor for Macintosh
    • TextPad, text editor for Windows
    • emacs, a text editor for Unix
    • Blogger, a blog tool
  • graphics made with: gif, jpeg, and png files, which are designed, created, edited and checked with:
    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Adobe Illustrator
    • MetaCreations Painter
    • GraphicConverter
    • Macromedia Fireworks
    • Olympus Digital Camera
    • LaCie SilverScanner
    • Wacom Pad
  • and multimedia such as Flash
• I check my work with:
  • CSS Validator
  • W3C HTML validator
  • linklint
  • Screen Ruler
• And I connect to the server to edit and transfer files with ssh, curl, and Interarchy.