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A Dad’s Life is curated and built by me with a lot of trial and error over long hours. I’m not a pro­fes­sional web­site devel­oper but I enjoy tin­ker­ing with code and Pho­to­shop as it feeds my cre­ative juices.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the site’s design: email me.

Code is poetry

That is the tagline for Word­Press, the free blog­ging plat­form that this site is built on.  I believe that the code lying beneath every­thing you see on the Inter­net can be poetry and that’s why I sup­port the Web Stan­dards Project. I also think that Håkon Wium Lie is a genius for propos­ing the con­cept of CSS to Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cail­liau at CERN back in 1994. These guys are smart!

I rely on a Word­Press frame­work called The­sis to effi­ciently design the site and main­tain excel­lent SEO. All cod­ing and design work is done using Coda and Pho­to­shop. I work on a early 2011 Mac­book Pro run­ning OS X Lion.

The site cur­rently uses Type­kit to serve most of its text. I’m using League Gothic, Museo slab, Sorts Mill Goudy and a touch of Tamar­illo.

The site lives on a kick-butt Medi­atem­ple server.