Colophon

In some books, a colophon at the end explains how the book was printed and constructed. Though rare in mass-market paperbacks, colophons are especially common in technical books, where they often mention the software the book was written with.

This, the third major revision of LaurenRoyal.com, was designed by Brent Royal-Gordon of Architechies Web Design. Special thanks to the Lauren Royal Street Team for helping to test it. The 2011 facelift was done by Jack Royal-Gordon of Groundbreaking Software.

This site is written in XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.0. As detailed in Of Browsers and Standards, it should work adequately in any reasonably modern browser. I welcome reports of validation failures. Images are a mix of JPEG and PNG, with the occasional GIF used where transparency is a must.

The site was originally constructed on a Microsoft Windows XP computer in Visual Studio .NET 2002's XML code view. Some tweaking was performed in GNU Emacs. Images were mostly prepared in Adobe Photoshop 7. Revision history is kept in a Subversion repository. The open source PearPC program was used to test it on Macintosh browsers. Mozilla Firefox's DOM Inspector tool was also invaluable in ferreting out difficult bugs.

The 2011 facelift was done on a MacBook Pro using TextMate for editing HTML and PERL, Gus Mueller's Acorn for images, and fournova's Tower for maintaining the Subversion repository. It conforms to CSS 3.0, and was tested on the Safari, Firefox and Chrome browsers.

This site is largely written in Embperl 2, a Perl dialect designed for building websites, with some parts written in plain Perl 5. A MySQL 3.23 database performs many functions for the site. The site is hosted on a FreeBSD server running Apache 1.3.

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