For various reasons I decided not to use any more or less professional HTML-composer to create my homepage. One of these reasons is standard-conformity, another is readability of the generated code. Down here are most of the tools and resources that I used to build tigerduck.de
- Debian GNU/Linux, my favourite Linux distro (and I know a few).
- vim, a small and fast text editor that may not be too user friendly but which I nevertheless tend to use quite regularly. I'm actually using vim, the improved version of vi...
- fte, the folding text editor. It's fast, really easy to use and quite powerful, but far from being as bloated as emacs. I particularly like that in many respects it works just like the editor of Turbo Pascal 6 (probably trademarked and whatever else) does.
- bash, the bourne again shell, especially its scripting language which in combination with find, grep, sed etc is really great for parsing all documents at once without having to mess around with perl
- perl, the scripting language that I use to give some kind of structure like common navigation and disclaimer to these pages. The perl script behind tigerduck.de does a little more than just pasting together templates and the actual HTML files.
- The gimp, a very powerful image manipulation program for Linux and many other platforms.
- sane, a frontend to sane, the linux scanning tool.
- selfhtml, probably the online guide on writing HTML-code.
- CSS, Language to do create a kind of style-file for HTML. If you want to see my stylefile, take a look at basic.css.
There are a lot of things on the web that really could kill me. The worst of all is Flash, but Javascript I don't like either. Surprisingly, you won't find any of these on tigerduck.de. Many people, especially lynx or w3m users, don't see a point in using frames and I can see there point. That's why there are so many tables on my page.
Of course you won't find tigerduck.de asking for permission to install a cooky eiter.
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