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How it's done

About the title picture

The title picture is a cutout of an old Canadian Pacific ad. Using the CSS property overflow:hidden, a part 27% of your viewport width (= sidebar width) wide is shown. To see the effect, horizontally resize your browser window (or view the complete cutout). For a discussion of this technique, see the discussion over at Simon Willison's weblog. It also has been mentioned on Zeldman's Daily Report and on A List Apart.

The Canadian Pacific ad

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Prior Title Pictures

Prior title pictures include some penguins, the Northrop XB-35 Flying Wing, a 5.4 liter V8 engine and a smaller cutout of the railroad ad.

Tools and Standards

I use Movable Type for the weblog and hand edit the other parts in TextPad. Instead of a FTP client, I use WebDrive. This tool maps FTP and WebDAV servers to a network drive letter in Windows and allows useremote files to be used just like local ones in any application. MovableType lives on an Apache server running on a Linux machine, is written in Perl and uses MySQL as its database. For the bits and pieces, PHP comes in. Its output should resemble XHTML 1.0 for the markup, CSS 2.0 for the styles and RSS 2.0 for the news feeds.