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
Anime Studio 9
Apache
Apple iMovie
Apple iPhoto
Apple iWork
BBedit
BrowserCam
Camino
CaptureMe
CSS3
d3
ePUB
eSPG v2.0
Flickr
Flot
Gecko
genCollectionInterface (gCI)
gimp
Giotto
github
Google Adsense
Google Chrome
Google Code
Google Docs
Google Maps
HTML/HTML5
Inkscape
Internet Archive Bookreader
iOS
JavaScript
JSON
JQuery
LESS
LibreOffice
Linux
MAMP
ManyEyes
MathJax
MathML
Mozilla
MySQL
node.js
Open Library
OPDS
PayPal
Pencil
PHP
PrinceXML
Prototip
Prototype
Python
Ruby
Safari
SASS/SCSS (Compass)
Scratch
Scribus
script.aculo.us
Sigil
Skype
Spaz
Subversion
Suffusion
SVG
SVGMath
Tesseract
ToonBoom Studio 7
Twitterfeed
Typekit
Ubuntu
W3C Validator
Web Standards
web.py
WordPress (theme by mono-lab; heavily souped-up by the RDC)
YouTube
XML/XHTML
Xcode