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 <span class="dropcap">T</span>his is a _minimalist_ web site: I do not care about fancy graphics or nitfy effects. I do care, however, about content and I want you to read what I write comfortably. As you can see, this site has no sidebars: it only has a header, a main column and a footer, exactly where you expect them to be. The source code of this site follows W3C's XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.1 standard.
 
As of version 8, h3rald.com is a completely static web site, except for a few AJAX calls. All the files are generated automatically thanks to the "Nanoc":http://nanoc.stoneship.org/ publishing system, an ingenious creation of "Denis Defreyne":http://www.stoneship.org/. Nanoc can be used to easily create static web sites using Ruby, as explained in "this article":http://www.h3rald.com/articles/take-back-your-site-with-nanoc/.

h3. Requirements

The following ruby libraries (gems) have been used to create this web site:

* *"nanoc3":http://rubyforge.org/projects/nanoc/*, to generate the entire web site
* *"extlib":http://rubyforge.org/projects/extlib/*, in some custom Rake tasks
* *"bb-ruby":http://rubyforge.org/projects/bb-ruby/*, for the BBCode filter
* *"builder":http://rubyforge.org/projects/builder/*, to create RSS and ATOM feeds
* *"haml":http://rubyforge.org/projects/haml/*, for the SASS filter

Additionally, the following gems were necessary to migrate from the previous version of this web site, powered by "Typo":http://www.typosphere.org:
* *"mysql":http://rubyforge.org/projects/mysql/*, to connect to the MySQL database used by Typo
* *"sequel":http://rubyforge.org/projects/sequel/*, to retrieve data from the Typo database

Besides Ruby-related dependencies, the following was also necessary:

* *"pygments":http://pygments.org/*, a Python library for code highlighting
* A cron job to fetch backtype comments, delicious bookmarks, tweets, and github commits in JSON format and save them to the @/output/data@ folder.

h3. Licensing

My "articles":/archives/ and all content published on this web site is licensed under the <em>Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License</em>. For other uses, contact me.

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/88x31.png" /></a>

The source code of this web site, such as its layout, SASS/CSS stylesheets, Nanoc tasks and code is licensed under the terms of the <em><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BSD/">BSD License</a></em> and it is available on "GitHub":http://github.com/h3rald/h3rald.

h3. Credits

I'd like to thank the following people for their work, which made this web site possible:

* "Denis Defreyne":http://www.stoneship.org/, for creating the wonderful "Nanoc":http://nanoc.stoneship.org/ site publishing system.
* "David J.Perry":http://scholarsfonts.net/, who designed the "Cardo font":http://scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html I used for the H3RALD logo and the navigation buttons.
* The staff of "Archive.org":http://www.archive.org, for scanning the first edition of "A Complete Guide to Heraldry":http://www.archive.org/details/completeguidetoh00foxduoft, and making it available to the public. All the images featuring heraldic monsters are taken from this book.
As of version 8, h3rald.com is a completely static web site, except for a few AJAX calls. All the files are generated automatically thanks to the "Nanoc":http://nanoc.stoneship.org/ publishing system, an ingenious creation of "Denis Defreyne":http://www.stoneship.org/. Nanoc can be used to easily create static web sites using Ruby, as explained in "this article":http://www.h3rald.com/articles/creating-static-web-sites-with-nanoc.