Colophon

“Such colophons might identify the book’s designer, the software used, the printing method, the printing company, the typeface(s) used in the page design and the kind of ink, paper, and its cotton content.”

– Wikipedia, “Colophon (Publishing)”

Designer

Designed by Yuac’s Alex Vermillion.

Domain

Domain purchased on Namecheap.

Registered for 2 years for $19.16 plus a $0.18 ICANN fee.

Namecheap included “1 year of Free Domain Privacy”, though they always offer this for free.

Hosting

Hosted on GitHub Pages for free as part of a public repository.

The website is mostly a collection of Markdown files which are automagically converted by Jekyll into HTML with the help of some SCSS (partly included in the service, partly handwritten). There are also some HTML templates.

GitHub pages has a free SSL (through Let’s Encrypt) thrown in, which is why the padlock next to the address bar is green and happy, not red and scary. This is a pretty cool feature.

Typefaces

When making a website, it’s important to remember that fonts cost money. A lot of fonts will offer samples for non-commercial use. We used 3 of these:

Images

We got some of our images from Deposit Photos through a trial they run.