About the Site
Art
The color scheme here was inspired by the HP 91 calculator. See some of these beasts at the HP Museum. The colors are boring so you can focus on my talents.
People
This site was created and is maintained by me, Andrew J. Peterson.
Technology
It is maintained on a G3 PowerBook (now my G4 1G PowerBook), using BBEdit Pro on MacOS X. We use locally-grown, hand-coded HTML and CSS. The HTML is cleaned and formatted with BBEdit, Tidy, and the w3c.org validation tools.
I created the few graphics with Adobe Photoshop LE, Elements 2.0 and Macromedia FireWorks. The photo comes from a scanned analog photograph. I look older now.
Recently I've played with the CSS extensively. Most of the layout is done with the CSS, and of course all of the styling is done that way. I've used this site to determine what works and what doesn't.
I've also tried adding a few AJAX-related technologies: dynamically created elements based on stylesheets (see "NEW" and "Updated" indicators); slide shows; rounded corners based solely on style-sheets and no images; and the "Books" page has a rather lame accordian effect. The sources of all this can be seen using "view source" in your browser. Note that lots of this doesn't work without Firefox 1.0, but it degrades by disappearing.
