About Kilted Viking

The name (Kilted Viking)

The name Kilted Viking was coined by a cousin and refers to my Swedish-Scottish ancestory and me owning a kilt. Needing a web server to place my home pages on (as I quit my job where I hosted my site then), I decided to register kiltedviking.net.

The design

Multimedia has never been my thing... so I usually try to make my web sites as simple as possible.

Original design (2006)

This site consists of a bunch of home pages with 5 images (logo and four corners in all home pages, not counting photos from my travels, etc. :-). The home pages are usually edited as text (nowadays in Notepad++, but previously in Crimson Editor), as to not destroy any design features (what design you might ask? :-) and to make sure they work as I want them to. My home pages are then viewed (tested) in Mozilla Firefox (and, if I remember/can be bothered, M$ Internet Explorer). The Web Design Group's web site and reference documents have been a great help to me (for many years). A big thanks goes to them!

Latest design (after 2013)

Not being good at design, I decided to base my site on a CSS framework, which was to be Bootstrap from Twitter, mainly because it seemed to be the best known and used at the time of decision. In 2024, version 3 of framework was upgraded to version 5.

Nowadays, I use Visual Studio Code from Microsoft to edit my pages (as development of GitHub's Atom and Adobe's Brackets were discontinued).

How do I come up with my designs then?

I usually steal ideas from home pages I visit. :-) Sometimes I manage to make these ideas work in my own pages and sometimes I don't. I have also spent the last 30+ years as webmaster (editing, not designing the sites! :-)) and developting websites, giving me some experience.

The technologies used

I mainly use HTML, (simple) JavaScript, and CSS (i.e. client-side technologies present in most web browsers) in my home pages. Since I bought some space at a web hotel supporting PHP (i.e. server-side technologies), some of the HTML pages have been converted to PHP pages (which, in reality, only means changing the file's extension and slightly changing the code in the page). I also started using FavIcon (as the web hotel supports it - see below).

Images used on site

Logotype

My logotype (used to be at top left of page) was based on a photo of a sunset (behind my aunt and uncles house, and which I took with my instamatic camera back in 2002, i.e. it's scanned). On my Swedish pages I use a photo of my old house as a logotype (which I took with my first digital camera). (People nagged me to change it to a photo of my caravan, in which I used to live for 3 years. and so I have on my travel pages. :-))

FavIcon

A FavIcon, or Favorite Icon, is the small icon in the Address field of your browser and in browser's bookmarks/favorites. My FavIcon is based on my former logotype (om English pages, i.e. the sunset) and I used HTML-Kit's online service to create mine.

(See <link> tag with attribute containing "favicon.ico" in the code for this page to see how to insert a FavIcon in your own page, should your server not do it for you.)

Icons for links

Icons used with links are from CSS framework.

Photos used in pages

All photos are taken by me.