About

soupnazi.org was registered in 1999 by Jim Mock, mainly for use a personal site and photo album. Weblog topics posted on the site range from life in general to work to politics to web design and development and everywhere in between.

Behind the scenes

As of late May 2008, the site is hosted by (mt) and powered by WordPress.

Web Standards

Over the years it’s seen a number of redesigns, and has been standards compliant since early 2000. That should make it obvious that the site is built with web standards and forward compatibility in mind. It uses valid XHTML Strict for the markup and CSS for the presentation and design. Using web standards has a number of benefits, including smaller page size, simplified maintenance, and better accessibility.

That said, this site should look nearly identical on any modern browser regardless of the operating system the browser is running on. In older browsers, text-based browsers, PDAs, or cell phones, the site should degrade gracefully and all of the content should still be accessible.

Syndication

As with most sites these days, a number of feeds are available. If you’d like to read it in a news aggregator instead of with a web browser, subscribe to the link below.

• Entries RSS
• Comments RSS

If you have no idea what an XML feed or news aggregator is, Mark Pilgrim wrote an excellent article about RSS that you should read. It should help explain things a bit.

Steal this design

Well, sort of. While I’d rather not have an exact duplicate of the site somewhere out there, feel free to use any of the markup or CSS in your own site, but please do not re-use any of my images or photos without asking my permission first.

If you do happen to borrow some of the markup or CSS, I’d really appreciate it if you’d drop me a quick note so I can check out what you’ve done with it.