Mohammed Nour
License
Unless specified otherwise:
- Site design and content licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
One important exception:
- All rights reserved for research papers and drafts of research papers, including all documents linked from my Research page.
Site design
The design of this site is my own. But I began by taking a careful look at David Sanson’s site, and the bones of this site’s design continue to owe a fair bit to his.
Nuts and Bolts
This site is generated by
- Jekyll (a lightweight CMS)
The site makes use of several useful scripts and services:
- Disqus manages comments.
- JQuery makes adding occasional bits of javascript-powered functionality easy
- html5shiv makes older versions of Internet Explorer recognize HTML5 elements.
- I use the COinS Generator to generate COinS metadata for papers on my research page.
The site is hosted on
an inexpensive pay-as-you-go bare-bones reputable web host. I end up paying ~$9 a year for domain registration and >50¢ a month for storage and bandwidth. I’ve been happy with them so far. To keep that price low, large files (like PDFs) are hosted via
To make the Dropbox URLs look better, I use