Colophon

NOTE: This was originally published on April 11, 2010 as a page of its own. As of October 30, 2023 I’m moving it into a blog post.

Question: What is a colophon?

Answer: A brief description, usually located at the end of a book, describing publication or production notes relevant to the edition

• Infrastructure includes:
  • The Internet itself
  • The DNS root nameservers makes domains possible
  • Pairnic rents me the domain name artlung.com and has since 1999
  • pair Networks rents me server space and capabilities. They are an excellent hosting company.
• 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
  • Some of the assets for the site are in Amazon Web Services S3
• The content itself is composed of many things:
  • HTML and CSS and client-side scripting (JavaScript), which are what the site is made of, and which are edited with:
    • phpStorm, an IDE for PHP and JavaScript
    • BBedit, a text editor for Macintosh
    • TextPad, text editor for Windows
    • emacs, a text editor for Unix
    • Until 2004 I used Blogger as my blogging tool, and since then I have used WordPress, and along the way I’ve learned a great deal about plugin and theme development
  • graphics made with: gif, jpeg, and png files, which are designed, created, edited and checked with:
    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Graphic, for vector art creation
    • Procreate, for some graphics and the comics I write
• I try to check my work for validity, responsiveness and accessibility:
  • CSS Validator
  • W3C HTML validator
  • linklint
  • Screen Ruler
  • Chrome or Firefox’s DevTools