About this Site

This website is actually version 2.0 of E.C.O. I used to just call this "evan.canonical.org", but I have been assured that using an acronym makes it cooler.

My old site was my first real attempt at HTML and tables and stuff. It's got a kid theme, which I did so that my mistakes would look intentional. But, by the time I finished, there wern't any mistakes, which was cool. Unfortunately, when one sticks to the box formation it had, you are really limited in everything else. Critics will notice that navigation is difficult, and doesn't allow you to return to the first page (my biggest problem with it). It also made *heavy* use of Javascript, which I tried to avoid with version 2.0

Now that you know all of these things that I don't like about the site, I bet you are all dying to see it. Well too bad! I lost it in the hard drive crash.

A lot of software is used to create a website. Here's what I used:

So, that means the website is powered by a custom built PIII 700 with 256 meg of memory and a brand new 30 gig hard drive, which replaced an old 6.4 gig Bigfoot drive :). The machine (whose name is Rocky) is running the Debian GNU/Linux operation system (testing version). It uses a custom-compiled Linux kernel version 2.4.5. The webserver is Apache. I use CSS a bit, and the guestbook (which, as of my writing this, is in beta form and not availble to the general public) uses PHP and MySQL. All graphics were done with GIMP. I edited most of the pages in Xemacs, although I used Mozilla's WYSIWYG to do tables on the first page since I'm lazy. The pics of me and my friends were done with the Ezonics EZCam. Thinkgeek provides the vast majority of my clothes, so I don't have to hack naked.

E.C.O.'s sponser would have to be Mountian Dew, and when I really have work to do, Bawls. That and goldfish, which I eat non-stop when I hack.

This site uses 100% free software. How about that?

I should thank the rest of the Canonical Hackers. They helped me tons. Also, I should thank Dave for helping me out with the bug fixes (he has Javascript skills). I would thank Tom, but he didn't help or appear interested in it at all. And, one more thank you: Emma, for inspiring me to start. Thanks, everyone.