You are a geek and you like to know what goes on behind (and front) of the scene of a website so here it goes.
Client-Side (Front-End)
All code is originally written to a XHTML 1.0 Strict spec with CSS3 in the mix, but at the last minute I’ve change it too HTML5 minus the need for any Javascript support.
Javascript is mainly written around the jQuery 1.5 framework.
The theme is all custom written by me; not using any parent files or CSS frameworks.
Tweet bird in the footer is by Jerrod Landon Porter (@iheartjlp)
The interesting font you see is called Sansation by Bernd Montag.
Videos from YouTube are wrapped in a chrome-less window using FuTube; the original script has been customized heavily to allowed different-case scenarios that aren’t supported in the official release.
Server-Side (Back-End)
The site runs on WordPress with PHP5 and MySQL. I’ve tried to keep the number of plugins to a absolute minimum; the reason for this is so I know exactly what’s going on with the site and I’m not reliant from external support.
The social media feeds are imported using JSON – XML was a viable option but it’s easier and less scripting to use JSON thanks to json_decode().
Hosting is provided by the dudes over at Media Temple.
Other
Just because there is more than what is seen and used on the web with a website, here’s a list of tools I’ve used to build the site:
- OS X
- Photoshop CS3
- Fireworks CS3
- Espresso
- skEdit
- Windows 7
- PhpED
- Aptana