Under The Hood
Every good designer wants to know what tools and technologies were used in the construction of a quality website. Here is a list of a few things we use to keep the Rural Design Collective site and our myriad of projects humming along. We will highlight the specific applications, and keep adding to it as we work on new projects, plus continuously upgrade the old ones (which, as every techie creative-type knows, can be a never-ending process)!
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe PDF
Amaya
Apache
Apple iMovie
Apple iPhoto
Apple iWork
BBedit
BrowserCam
Camino
CaptureMe
CSS3
ePUB (coming soon)
eSPG v2.0
Flickr
Flot (coming soon)
Gecko
genCollectionInterface (gCI)
gimp
github
Google Adsense
Google Chrome
Google Code
Google Maps
HTML/HTML5
Inkscape
Internet Archive Children’s Library
Internet Archive Bookreader
JavaScript
JSON
JQuery
Linux
ManyEyes (coming soon!)
MathJax
MathML
Mozilla
MySQL
Open Library
OPDS (coming soon!)
PayPal
PHP
PrinceXML
Prototip
Prototype
Python
Safari
Scribus
script.aculo.us
Sigil
Skype
Spaz
Subversion
Suffusion
SVG
Twitterfeed
Typekit
W3C Validator
Web Standards
WordPress (theme by mono-lab; heavily souped-up by the RDC)
YouTube
XML/XHTML
Coming soon: RDC WorkSpace! →