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UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. The basic principles I tried to follow in creating the this site were as follows: The site should be entirely text-based, with minimal or no use of graphics. All web pages on the site should validate as HTML 4.01 Strict. All web pages on the site should be accessible using URIs that hide the details of the particular content type or page generation mechanism associated with the page. The site should be a transparent upgrade from my previous site (created a few years ago), so that all previous URLs should continue to work. The following sections expand on these points: ...

UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. This site is a mixture of static content and dynamic content served through the Blosxom blogging system. I use various URI rewriting rules and a number of Blosxom plugins (some slightly hacked) in order to implement the site according to my personal design philosophy. Overall implementation As mentioned above, my site is (for the most part) powered either directly or indirectly by Blosxom. I use three different approaches to serving site content: ...

UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. Here I document the way in which I use URI rewriting (along with redirection and a couple of Blosxom plugins) to help implement my personal design philosophy for my web site. My goal is to create a unified URI space within which static and dynamic content can transparently co-exist, with publicly-visible URIs for human-readable content (i.e., HTML pages) having a canonical form that omits file extensions or other content type specifiers. ...

UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. I’ve tried to make this site accessible to as many people as possible; here I describe the accessibility features of this site. (This statement is based on Mark Pilgrim’s accessibility statement.) If you have any questions or comments about the accessibility of this site, feel free to email me at the address found elsewhere on this site. ...