Colophon

This website is produced on an Apple iMac, using OmniGraffle and Fireworks to realise early design concepts before being marked up as HTML in Coda. I use and recommend Media Temple for web hosting. Headlines are set in Akagi whilst Magneta is used for body text. Fonts are served via Fontdeck.

This site is published using Movable Type Pro 5 and a number of supporting plugins:

• Markdown and SmartyPants by John Gruber
• Widont by Brook Elgie
• FlickrPhotos by Marc Carey
• TagSupplementals by Hirotaka Ogawa
• Regex by Brad Choate
• Gravatar by Automattic
• ModifiedDate by Hirotaka Ogawa

Additional enhancements:

• Leaflet interactive maps by CloudMade, with map data provided by OpenStreetMap.
• oembed-php to display linked photos and videos inline via oEmbed
• Awesompersands by Patrick Haney
• FlexSlider by Tyler Smith
• Modernizr by the Modernizr team

I’ve referenced or been inspired by the following articles:

• Resolution Independence With SVG by David Bushell
• Compose to a Vertical Rhythm and Web Typography by Richard Rutter
• Ghost in the Machine Tags by Jeremy Keith
• Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte
• Creating Intrinsic Ratios for Video by Thierry Koblentz

I always try to adhere to web standards and best practices. Therefore, pages are semantically structured using valid HTML5 with presentational design provided by CSS. Syndicated feeds are available using Atom-flavoured RSS. Behavioural enhancements use the JQuery JavaScript framework, and an extra layer of semanticism is available thanks to Microformats.

Site analytics are tracked using Mint by Shaun Inman.