FluidMind.org Colophon

This site was created using only standard, valid XHTML 1.0 Strict markup and valid CSS2 style sheets. Scripting was written in PHP. The header and navigation are off in separate included files and the navigation uses PHP to determine where it is in the site. All coding was done by hand using either BBEdit on my Mac or the "joe" editor on the server. All graphics were created using Photoshop. The photos of Buddhist and Chinese figures throughout this site are from my own collection and were taken with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel.

The random quote on the home page is chosen using the "fortune" command on the server from a custom fortune database file created with the "strfile" command. The fortune command is simply called with the PHP "shell_exec" function. The random photo at the bottom of the nav was also achieved with some simple PHP scripting. The directory listing of the images was read with the ls command and placed into an array and a random element was drawn from the array.

The site runs on Ubuntu Linux in a VMware Server virtual machine.

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