about this Web site...
Launched December 1999, this Web site continues to promote
Linley's Dungeon Crawl in (more or less) glorious greyscale.
The inspiration for this undertaking was the author's then thorough participation in the game's development.
Although regular code contributions are likely long past, the author has dedicated himself to documenting Crawl for others to enjoy.
Despite long ownership of the domain,
true Web production began February 2002.
Web documents are crafted manually, channeled through
TextPad
and, occasionally,
VIM.
Document delivery relies upon a custom site management solution coded in
PHP,
handled by
Apache,
and hosted with
Pair Networks.
What graphics there are were produced in
Photoshop
and further optimized with
PNGcrush
as the need arose.
On occasion, various
O'Reilly
publications were consulted.
More often than not, fluffernutters fueled late night Web production.
Site design is consciously and rigorously minimal in its presentation.
Pan-browser acceptance, bandwidth utilization, and
Web usability
have all informed its construction.
Although
Jakob Nielsen's wheedling,
W3C standards,
and
WaSP advocacy
could be claimed as influences,
the author consistently falls short of their expectations.
The author would like to credit Matt, maintainer of
pleonasm.com,
for prompting the summary before you.
He may never be forgiven for registering that particular domain, though.
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