Colophon —– About This Site

The layout of this website is written in HTML5 with CSS and a touch of JavaScript. The design is written on top of the Blueprint CSS Framework and the JavaScript lies on top of the solid jQuery JavaScript framework.

The blog engine behind the content, as the footer points out, is Jekyll. The Jekyll website sums it up quite nicely:

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server.

All the code and content for this blog can be found on Github.

This website is hosted on Rackspace Cloud, a cloud-based web host. Rackspace Cloud lets me run and manage a low-cost server, paying for only what I use. By hosting off Rackspace Cloud I don’t have to worry about any shared-hosting gotchas. Any package I need, I can install.