Colophon
“A colophon is a page or section (typically in a footer) of a site that describes how the site is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies, and often published on personal sites at a top level /colophon page.”
This site—when created in March 2025—was a huge deal for me. My go-to site builder has always been Squarespace since 2004. Heck, I even wrote a couple of books about Squarespace. However, for writeDRAWcode_, I started with something different— WordPress.
WordPress felt like the right solution for serious blogging, but I could never get over the fact that my brain thinks “in Squarespace terms and features.” I thought I would blog directly in WordPress, but I fell right back to my usual go-to Apple ecosystem of writing apps. I was never happy with WordPress. Too much maintenance needed for plugins and themes. So I switched this site to a new Squarespace account.
For those who are curious, below is everything I use to make this website and all my other websites.
Web Resources
Fastmail (affiliate link) for email
Cloudflare for managing and registering domain names
Squarespace for powering this website
Software & Apps
Affinity Suite is used to process any images and graphics. I even use Affinity spoftware to make the writeDRAWcode_ logo and logomark.
FYI - I stopped using Adobe Creative Suite in 2023.Fonts on writeDRAWcode.com are set to use your device's default system font, falling back to Helvetica Neue and other san-serif fonts.
Nova by Panic to write custom CSS/LESS code for styling the site beyond Squarespace’s built-in design features. I use another app, CodeKit, to compile my CSS for easy copy-n-paste into Squarespace Custom Code area.
Ulysses for writing blog posts.
I have a subscription to SetApp which gives me access to a whole suite of apps on the Mac. I like evaluating new apps to see if I can streamline my productivity or enhance my workflows.