About The Site

In case you haven't guessed, this site is partially about vanity. It does, however, serve several other purposes. The primary purpose is as my personal photo album, not unlike a printed photo album except that I can easily share my album with my friends and family around the world.

This site also provides me with an opportunity to work with various web based technologies without the normal pressure associated with professional work. It is a sand box.

Accessibility

This site includes several features to help make it more accessible to those with difficulty (visual or otherwise) using a normal browser. The site is laid out so that it renders correctly in text only browsers such as links and lynx. It has been tested in both. Testing in several text to speech browsers is under way.

This site has also been tested to ensure that it is workable for those who are color blind using the color blind web page filter.

If some portion of this site doesn't not work for you, or is causing difficulty, please email me the details (include at least a URL and a simple description of the problem) and I will do my best to correct the situation.

Site Features

  • This site features a menu system based entirly on HTML and CSS (for good browsers such as Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, Opera and Safari). The menu system requies a small amount of javascript to work in Internet Explorer.
  • This site is functional on mobile devices, such as Blackberrys thanks to the simple menu system (which reverts to just unsorted lists of links) and its simple layout.
  • More or less tight integration with outside services and software, such as blogger.com, the Media Wiki project and mailman.

Technologies and Applications

  • HTML, CSS and Javascript (of course).
  • A template processor written in Perl (by me).
  • A photo album builder written in Perl (by me).
  • ImageMagick (for the album system).
  • Adobe Illistrator, Photoshop, Inkscape and the Gimp.
  • Various text editors.
  • The W3C's Markup Validation Service.
  • A custom guest book using Google Maps, Ruby on Rails and MySQL (still in testing).

References

Credit should be given to various places I got information from, including: