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About Me
About the Site powersThatBe.org is hosted with Apache, running on Linux hosting provided by 1&1. The site itself was designed in Adobe Illustrator (my design tool of choice) and rasterized in Adobe Photoshop; then the HTML was lovingly handwritten using only my vast knowledge of the language and the incredible BBEdit (where, ironically enough, I never touch a single one of the HTML tools... I just like syntax coloring; yummy!). The font used in the header is called Emmanuel, and is available for free from DincType. I am vehemently opposed to graphical webpage layout tools, like GoLive and Dreamweaver; I used to be a GoLive user (and even taught a class in it for a summer), but one day, I actually looked at the code it was generating and thought to myself, "my god, what crap." From that day onwards, I figured that I was just better off writing everything by hand, and I was right. HTML isn't a hard language; you can get away with a lot, if you're smart about it. Many swear by Dreamweaver, but in the hour or two that I spent using it, I can't say that I'm impressed. Maybe one day, when this site has 10,000 pages, I'll come to appreciate it; until them, hand written it is. And while I'm dispensing advice, buy a Mac. Seriously. Mac OS X, with its UNIX-based goodness and great selection of apps (yes Virginia, everything is available for the Mac), is really the perfect platform. I couldn't imagine working (or being able to get work done) on anything else. This site looks better on a Mac. Seriously. Anti-aliasing just makes everything look so, so... smooth. I guarantee you that, if this site looks a bit odd or the fonts seem a little small, you'll love the way it looks in Safari. Go ahead and try it; find a Mac, launch Safari (NOT IE!), and direct it towards powersthatbe.org... you'll be happy you did! |
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