Alexander Vassbotn Røyne-Helgesen

professional bio

I am a Web Designer and Developer with a Bachelor Degree in Information Technology. My residence now is at Aller Internett AS (AI) as a Web Developer. AI is the biggest digital media house in Norway with sites that reaches over 2 125 000 unique visitors in a week with sites like DinSide.no, SeHer.no, ITavisen.no and Digi.no

personal bio

I was born and raised in Bærum, a municipality neighbouring Oslo. After finishing off my military service in Stavanger I moved back home to finish my Bachelor degree within Information Technology at The Norwegian School of Information Technology, NITH.

Today, I am 27 years old and living with my wife, Marthe Medby Røyne-Helgesen.

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summary

This blog is the ongoing product of my pendatic creativity. I started it some years ago to have a place to throw out my thoughts and views on certain things, and to show off my growing web development knowledge.

web standards

I am trying to make a web page as accessible as possible. To do this, I follow the Section 508 and WCAG standards to back up the XHTML 1.1 Strict and CSS I code.

browser support

Currently, all the major browsers are compatible with this site. I am currently undergoing tests on other operative systems and peripherals to ensure full compatibility. For best possible viewing, use a Gecko-based browser, such as Firefox.

content management

This blog is coded with the help of CakePHP, a real nice PHP framework.

content feeds

phun-ky.net has one feed available for syndication. I have a rss feed. The links are available from the home page.

typography

The fonts used on this blog is two sans-serif typefaces from Max Miedinger and Matthew Carter. The fonts are Helvetica and Verdana.

icons

This blog uses the incredible versitile icons from famfamfam.com. The social media icons is from komodomedia.com

tools

I have only used Gedit and as an editor via FTP to code the XHTML/CSS on this blog. The few graphic items on this blog that I've made is drawn in The Gimp and Adobe Flash Professional 8. This blog is hosted by ServeTheWorld and running on a LAMP system (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP).