The Exquisite Details
Julen.Net is the umbrella website for a variety of websites, resources, and oddities, most of which can be traced back to the nefarious efforts of one person: Julia A. M. Hayden. Early versions for much of what you see were first spotted in the wild in the spring of 1994. The domain name was purchased in 1996, and today, visitors to julen.net find a hodge-podge of sites.
The content of this website is variously İright; 1994-2003; it is all mine (I'm greedy that way), and all rights are reserved. I tend to be pretty generous about allowing people to use and reuse content and images from the site, but I like to be the one making that decision. I reserve the right to say No.
Furthermore, the content of this website should always be available and readable. If you find this isn't the case, please let me know.
Julen.net is built with HTML, CSS, and a touch of javascript. The nature of the construction has varied widely over time - I've used frames, tables, iframes, included files, generated content, and pure HTML to frame the content in various combinations for ten years. Because this site is large and unwieldy, chances are that - if you spend enough time poking around - you will stumble accross some of the older content, designs, or construction.
I'm currently (always) renovating the site to separate the content from the design, and to eliminate old design workarounds that were neither particularly portable nor flexible. This means that some older award-winning and widely-lauded designs will be eliminated from active duty. While this renovation is no easy task, it will result in cleaner, quicker page delivery, as well as a greater flexibility in maintaince and delivery to multiple devices.
Plus, it's a challenge, fun, and generally good practice.
The Alphabet Julen, the Ancient World Web, the Daily Decision, and much of the newer vanity content is built in modern HTML and CSS, with a touch of javascript. The design looks great if you have a standards-compliant or near-compliant browser; it grows increasingly less ideal as the browser grows increasingly older. At all times, however, you should be able to access the content, itself.
Construction Kits
My toolbox typically includes Adobe's Illustrator, Photoshop, and ImageReady and Macromedia's Fireworks, Dreamweaver (for quick prototyping), and Typographer, and I've got two half-finished flash files (one made with Macromedia's Flash product; the other with CorelRave sitting around somewhere. I use Allaire's Homesite, Notepad, VI, emacs, or SimpleText to write the HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I've also been known to use Bradsoft's TopStyle Lite on occasion, but it's usually easier to go in and hand-edit. I've used other programs intermitantly over the past ten years, but the ones listed here are the ones I keep coming back to.
I use a Nikon 885 Coolpix digital camera for most of the pictures in Out and About, but some of the older ones I dig up may come from the mediocre Epson digital camera I had in the 1990s or even a scanned in polaroid.
Some of the content is managed with Movable Type, a great little blogging-cum-content management system; I've also used Gossamer Threads' Links 2.0 to manage the sprawling web index that is the Ancient World Web.
Typography
The same font-sets are used in both the front page of julen.net, and the various vanity pages: FuelFonts' Parkland ("headers on the vanity pages; "Girl" and "Julen" in the brand), as well as Riverside ("the", "from", and "presents" in the brand). Everyone labels Riverside as freeware or free/shareware, but I can't find any authorship ascribations - if you know who created it (especially if it's shareware or illegally distributed for-pay-ware!), drop me a line.
I've specified Georgia and Verdana, two free Microsoft Web Fonts that come with most new systems these days, to handle the content. Georgia also makes an additional appearance as the faint alphabet watermark in the vanity headers, and in the browse link.
I think these two fonts are the most readable common on-screen fonts out there. If you don't have these two fonts, and don't want some random webtwit telling you what to download, I've specified a number of backup fonts, at least one of which you probably have installed.
I've designed these pages so that you can choose to increase or decrease the
size of the fonts displayed here using your normal browser controls.
Hosting
I'm hosted by North American Networks, Inc. They're really good to me.
