yukon_dude_software.website
This site is powered entirely by open source technologies. Whenever possible, yukon dude software builds systems based on open source software, and releases its own products under open source licences.

This website is best viewed using the Mozilla project's Firefox browser, or the Mozilla browser itself. While the site is designed to display properly in all modern browsers, the Mozilla and Firefox (a cutting-edge and trimmed-down version of the base Mozilla browser) products tend to be the most compliant with the web's standards.

The pages on this site are written to conform to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) XHTML 1.0 Strict Specification, the most rigorous of the XHTML variants in widespread use. Following such standards is the best guarantee that a website will display correctly on all browsers—PDAs and screen readers included. You may use the W3C's Markup Validation Service to validate this page.

The cascading style sheets (CSS) used to format the pages on this site are written to conform to the W3C's CCS2 Specification. You may use the W3C's CSS Validation Service to validate this page's style sheets.

This website claims conformance to level A of the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG).

This site is—minimally—powered by PHP. The PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (a recursive acronym thought to be more sexy than the original meaning, "Personal Home Page") is a server-side scripting language for creating dynamic web pages. PHP is an open source project directed by the Apache Software Foundation.

The content and layout of this site is managed through the Smarty Template Engine, a PHP-based system for cleanly separating the visual presentation of a website from its underlying functional logic.

This site is served by the Apache Software Foundation's HTTP Server, usually known simply as "Apache". The Apache web server is currently the most popular on the Internet, and is certainly one of the most robust and secure.

The server hosting this site is powered by the Ubuntu distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system. The GNU/Linux operating system is an open source analogue of UNIX. There are a bewildering variety of GNU/Linux distributions, and Ubuntu is one of the more trendy of these.