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Tools Used

These Web-pages have been created using XEmacs (for the HTML editing) and The Gimp (for the few graphics on my pages).

Besides the real content, all my Web-pages have a common layout which is generated by a PHP script. So I can easily change the layout of all my pages by just editing one file.

And finally, I usually use Netscape Navigator, lynx, links, and Mozilla to check the layout of my Web-pages.

Oh, and for publishing my Web-pages I use wget, a Python-script (for "compressing" the HTML-files), multifile-replace (for adjusting some hosting-specific HTML-code), and sitecopy.

Larger Documents

You might notice, that some larger documents on my Web-pages have a unique layout. These documents are written in SGML using the DocBook-DTD and they have been converted to HTML, PDF, DVI and RTF with Jade (OpenJade) using the Modular DocBook Stylesheets. For more information take a look at DocBook: The Definitive Guide by Norman Walsh and Leonard Mueller.

Dynamic Content

Well, actually there is no real dynamic content on my Web-site yet, but some of the pages are generated from a PostgreSQL database.

Hosting

Currently these pages are hosted by domainsteam.de. This Web hosting provider is reasonably priced, responsive to user queries and they support Python CGI-Scripts and PHP (see phpinfo output). And they also allow you to manage your domain and nameservers yourself. Finally, they have an affiliate program, so if you plan to order some Web space, you might want to use my domainsteam.de affiliate link (of course, you will have to accept cookies for it to work).

You might also be interested in what Netcraft has to say about cmeerw.org, (site report).

BTW, I currently use imageevent.com to store high-resolution images for my digital photo album. They are reasonably priced and allow easy integration of the uploaded pictures into your own Web site (as the image URLs are predictable).

Oh, edge.cmeerw.net is a virtual server from vd-server.de which I use for hosting my JabRSS bot, my Subversion repository, as a download mirror and as my testing server. This server is also reachable via IPv6 (connected to XS26).

And finally, the JabXPCOM and XPCOM2CORBA projects are currently hosted by dotsrc.org, a non-commercial entity run by volunteers dedicated to support Open Source development.

Domains

My domains cmeerw.org and cmeerw.net are both registered through domaindiscount24.com. I am using edge.cmeerw.net as the primary nameserver and ns0.xname.org and ns1.xname.org as secondary servers.

Newsserver

I am currently running a tiny news server, mainly for the openwatcom.* hierarchy.

Language/Translations

As my mother tongue is German, some pages are in German and some are in English. I try to keep the important pages in English, but some are in German mostly because they are the result of a work for a lecture at university. To make your life a little bit easier, I provide at least a link for automatic translation (using SYSTRAN's translation service) on most pages.

Searching

Searching my Web-pages is done through atomz.com. They offer it for free for Web-sites with less than 500 pages -- they only force you to put their logo on the search-result pages.

Statistics

From time to time I use Webalizer to generate an easily readable summary of the Web-site accesses. BTW, as of May 2003 there are about 100000 hits or 38000 page views per month. Web surfers from more than 70 different countries access my Web-site and generate about 300 MB traffic per month.

Books @ Amazon

I have decided to provide direct links to Amazon's ordering pages for all books mentioned on this site. Please note that these links contain World Vision's (World Vision Austria or World Vision United States) affiliate tag.

Some Logos

Well, everybody has some of these nifty logos on his Web-page, so have I.