So, like, What the Fuck is a Colophon?
It’s a particularly nasty venereal disease.
Basic Building Blocks
Putting aside the obvious considerations like our good friends electricity and evolution, We use WordPress to disseminate us to the huddled masses. We bleed our fingers on keyboards attached to MacBook Pros, mostly. Our Macs runs some software called Transmit and TextMate. These two programs help us broadcast our narcissistic echoes to the internets.
The Current Design-Theme
We created this baby on a Mac and the site looks as intended on Safari, or OmniWeb, or WebKit. If you do not have a Mac, or do not use Safari, or OmniWeb, or WebKit, then the site probably works, but looks like ass. We’re fine with this as we’re selfish assholes.
We don’t care about IE6. IE6 is dead to us. At this point in time there’s no excuse for using IE6. Yeah, maybe you’re at work and it’s all you got. We sympathize, and think that’s as good a reason as any to quit and find a new job where your boss either (01) uses Apple computers, or (2) cares enough about his employees to give you Firefox or something suitable to the 21st Century with which to browse porn while you’re “working”.
And finally, if you really, really like this theme then contact us and we’ll give it to you no strings attached. Keep in mind you’ll get it as is, warts and all, and will have to make some changes to the guts as there’ll be a bunch of site specific code in it, and you’ll have to do so without much help from us, but if you’re the least bit familiar with WordPress then this should not be much of a problem.
on Site Hosting
We use the mighty fine A Small Orange to serve this humble abode to the passing traffic. ASO is a first rate hosting company based in Atlanta, Georgia. ASO’s support is world class. Their performance would make a porn star blush. We couldn’t be happier with them, and give them a hardy recommendation.
WordPress Plugins Used
These change fairly frequently as we’re a bunch of fickle blokes. That and we’ll probably forget to change this list. That and we won’t install a plugin which automates this whole thing. We’ve broken down the plugins we use into the two lists below. One for all the frontside plugins, or the ones you’ll notice, and another from the backside ones, or the plugins you will not notice.
The plugin lists are, like, on a list of things to do. Way down near the bottom.
The Typography of Griffin & Hoxie
We love typography. Don’t know a damn thing about it, but fonts and Font Art makes us giddy. We could look at pictures of fonts used creativity all day. We mention this for no real discernible reason other than we needed some space between that h4 header up there and the h5 header below, which this accomplishes. It’s also a shoddy lesson in managing typographical space.
Body Fonts
- Helvetica Neue
- Helvetica
- Calibri
- Arial
- A smattering of Hoefler Text, or Times New Roman, and Helvetica Neue Light
Heading Fonts
- Bree Bold
- Helvetica Neue
- Helvetica
- Calibri
- Arial
- A smattering of Hoefler Text, or Times New Roman, and Helvetica Neue Light
Resources
When we get around to it we’ll list some of the resources we’ve folded into this joint.
