About: this site
General
This is a mixture of a pointless vanity site and a site for distributing little bits of software, and maybe later some writing and fun stuff. It's also managed with a really nifty little Python hack.
How this site is constructed
This site was originally written using a custom mod_python handler. The individual pages were plain html with only the 'content' portion of the page. The navigational sidebar and the layout were generated on the fly by the mod_python handler, which was registered to handle all HTML pages.
Currently, this site does something similar, except that the layout and sidebar are done with jonpy so as not to require mod_python. The layout is also pure CSS now, avoiding some nasty table layout and some ugly HTML hacks in the sidebar design.