Access & Ownership
My web sites at train.ed.psu.edu, www.personal.psu.edu/dlp, economywork.com, emerge.ed.psu.edu, and irtd.ed.psu.edu and all elements of courseware served on these sites were developed by me and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
These web sites are a source of official communication about my activities and courses. Information on my sites is not meant to supersede any policies established through general Penn State administrative documents.
These web sites and the courseware served through them were not commissioned by Penn State, are not sold, and do not require fee for access.
The availability of academic courses referenced on my web sites during any academic term depends on Penn State administrative decisions and whether course enrollment meets Penn State's minimum enrollment requirements.
Photos on my web sites either are owned by me or were obtained from royalty-free, copyright-unrestricted sources, unless otherwise noted and credited.
Design Philosophy
The design of my web site is due, in large part, to the influence, advice, consultation, and shared cascading style sheets of Jerrold Maddox, Professor of Art at Penn State. Jerry’s “Simpler, Smarter, and Smaller” page challenged me to reconsider my entire web design philosophy. In his “Simple & Useful: A Guide to Web Design,” he asks,
Can html be styled well enough and simply enough so that anyone can write for the web, using just a text editor, and share that work with anyone else, regardless of the platform they are using, the speed of their connection and any disabilities they may have?
Buy, hey, any flubadubs, clown color, or typeface follies that you might find on my sites are mine alone.
Technology
My main personal site at train.ed.psu.edu is served through a free personal edition of an Abyss web server running on a 2 GHz Intel Core Duo Mac Mini with 2 GB of RAM and connected to Penn State's network, and from there to the world, with a 100 GB connection. Some files are stored and served on similarly configured machines at irtd.ed.psu.edu and emerge.ed.psu.edu. Also, some files are served through Penn State Access Account Storage Space through www.personal.psu.edu. My course web sites are served through economywork.com, a domain hosted by Bluehost.com.
Development
All of my web sites are coded using Dreamweaver CS5.5 or TextWrangler. I edit cascading style sheets with Aptana.
Look & Feel
The CSS file that drives the layout, typography, and display most of my web pages is available at:
The CSS file that formats most of my displayed web pages for printing is:
Assistance
Along the way, various graduate students enrolled in Penn State’s Workforce Education & Development academic program have had a hand in coding various Passmore–managed web sites as graduate assistants or volunteers: I–Pang Fu; Bonnie Gardner; Ki Seok Jeon; Taesung Kim; Woocheol Kim; and Hsing–Ling Tsai.