colophon

What do you mean, "what the hell is a colophon?"

A colophon is simply an inscription within a publication that describes the details of its production. It's often included by geeks for other geeks who care about such drivel.

AUTHOR/DESIGNER
Ray Kingston

TYPOGRAPHY
This site is set in Trebuchet MS for body text and Impact for navigation. If you do not have these fonts automatically installed on your computer, you're probably using a VERY old operating system. The logo image on the home page is set in Tw Cen MT Condensed Bold; the descriptor is set in Frutiger.

COMPUTER SYSTEMS
20" iMac G5 (OS X.4.9)
14.5" Compaq Presario Laptop (Windows XP)

SOFTWARE : Design
Adobe Creative Suite 2
· InDesign CS2
· Photoshop CS3 (Beta)
· ImageReady CS3 (Beta)
· Illustrator CS2
· Bridge CS3 (Beta)
· Acrobat Professional 8
· Flash 8
Apple iPhoto
BareBones Text Wrangler
Linotype FontExplorerX
Mozilla Firefox
FireFTP (Firefox Extension)
MeasureIt (Firefox Extension)

SOFTWARE : Audio
Steinberg Cubase SX3
Propellerheads Reason 3.0
Bias Peak 4
Apple QuickTime 7 Professional
Apple iTunes

CAMERA
Olympus D-540
Most of the photos on this site were taken by me, but the other photographers include my wife, Katie; her father, Phil Britto; her mother, Marcia Britto; Jeff Crandall from Jeff Crandall Photography; and Joshua Stewart; others are unknown at the time of publication.

WEB STANDARDS AND MARKUP
rkingston.com is marked up using XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Its layout, typography, and colors are controlled by CSS, with very minimal use of tables. All code is by hand; that is, no drag-and-drop WYSIWYG applications were used to lay out the website's pages.

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