"ABOUT"

About

What this is.

EDEN Online is the official website of [ED7 ENTERTAINMENT]. It is designed to be as simple as humanly possible while maintaining some universal appeal, prioritizing accessibility, elegance, practicality, and semantics over appearance. We usually call it the Online Portal.

If you want to dive deep into its technical specifications, then feel free to do any of the following:

  • Enable your web browser's developer tools to see what is under its hood.
  • Check out its [Git repository].
  • For the laymen, read the pages detailing its [features].

We would like to thank GitHub (and in turn, Microsoft) and the people who have kept and are keeping GitHub Pages running free of monetary charge.

Features

Information in some pages apply to websites using our technology.

  • [Navigation]Moving around the website.
    • [Menus]For page and site navigation.
    • [Toolbar]For Top, Back, and Forward controls.
    • [Links]About their visual features.
    • [Keyboard Use]More power to you.
  • [Design]About designing the Online Portal.
    • [Spacing]Placing elements to where they belong.
    • [Colors]Comfortable yet distinguishable.
    • [Graphics]For illustrations and branding only.
    • [Weighing]Limiting the amount of page content.
  • [Layouts]Adapting to different media contexts.
  • [Fonts]We use Cantarell and Hack.

History

The Online Portal was wholly hand-coded from scratch to its launch on New Year's Eve 2020 for Mozilla Firefox, with only [one page].

03/30/2020

Due to reports on missing margins with Safari and Chrome, its stylesheet was then backported to both browsers and others that did not recognize bleeding-edge definitions and short forms.

04/29/2020

As the Online Portal grew, hand-coding was becoming less tolerable. So the entirety was then refactored to use [Jekyll] in a modular fashion. However, to retain its dynamicism, content modules are still mostly hand-coded.

01/04/2021

For the same reasons as above, a metadata pool was created. This allows for any page to access the metadata of any page (including itself), greatly easing maintenance. A page metadata documents a its path, title, subtitle, and those of its sections.

Lesser but cumulative changes are documented in the [Changes page].

License

Unless otherwise mentioned, all contents accessible within the Online Portal--except those from external sources--are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License.

Technologies used for the making of, and within the Online Portal are also available but under the MIT license.

Both are printed in the [License page].

Trivia

  • This build of the Online Portal has 125 pages.
  • Much of everything here is made from scratch by me, a biological human; no generative artificial intelligence were involved.
  • As of this page's date, the Online Portal fits into a 3½-inch, high-density floppy disk.
  • Elements are spaced using multiples of a single variable, so changing it will affect the density of the entire page.
  • Finally, we are confident to claim EDEN Online as the most comprehensively-established independent personal website on the Internet.