suttonelections/views/about.haml

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  %h1= @page_title = "About this website"
  
  %p
    This website was designed and written by 
    %a{ :href => 'http://adrianshort.co.uk' } Adrian Short
    \.
    You can contact me by email at 
    %a{ :href => "mailto:adrian.short@gmail.com" } adrian.short@gmail.com
    and 
    %a{ :href => "http://twitter.com/adrianshort" } follow me on Twitter
    \.
    
  %p.highlight This site is independent of Sutton Council, all political parties and candidates.
  
  %p Every page on this website prints beautifully.
  
  %p
    The council candidates' data comes from Sutton Council who also provided information on council wards and parliamentary constituencies. 
  
  %p
    This site is written in Ruby using the Sinatra framework.
    
  %p
    The code for this website is 
    %a{ :href => "http://github.com/adrianshort/Sutton-Elections" } open source and managed on Github.
    It is hosted by Heroku.
    
  %p
    The postcode lookup is done by UK Postcodes using open data from Ordnance Survey enhanced by MySociety. I use the Ruby Pat gem to access the postcodes API.
    
  %p
    The page templates use Haml and SprySoft's Variable Grid System. The database is SQLite for development and PostgreSQL for production, abstracted through DataMapper.
  %p  
    Source control and deployment is done with Git.
    
  %p The fonts are Museo Slab and Museo Sans served by Typekit.