Credits
Tawawa.org is a group weblog. Lots of people and lots of things make it go.
Contributors
Tawawa.org is authored by the following students of English at Mie University, Japan: Masami Fujimoto, Kazuaki Kawashima, Yukiko Kojima, Eri Koura, Yukari Matoba, Ayumi Sawa, Hiroko Shioda, Chie Sugimoto, Daijirou Sunagawa, Kuniyuki Tanaka, Tomoko Ueda, and Satoko Yokoi.
Administrator
Tawawa.org is run by Rudolf Ammann, who teaches English at the Faculty of Education, Mie University, Japan. He also came up with the idea for the site, designed it, keeps tweaking the code, replies to the mail and mops up the floor when somebody spills their tea. The LinguaFix TransDegarbler which he claims to have running on the Tawawa server, a piece of software which supposedly corrects bad English produced by non-native writers of the language, is probably fictitious.
Software
This site runs on Movable Type. All code is hand-written, mostly in NoteTab and EditPad. Graphics are cooked up in Adobe Photoshop.
Tawawa.org's moblog is piped through Kevin Cameron's Mfop2 and pulled into the sidebar using the method described in Kurt Easterwood's tutorial.
Code
Tawawa.org is coded to the XHTML 1.0 standard. All layout and formatting is handled with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Since outmoded browsers (such as Netscape Navigator 4) can choke and crash on CSS, the page layout is withheld from such browsers. All content, however, continues to be accessible no matter what.
Type
The Tawawa.org logo uses the following fine fonts: bd eject/bd eject katakana by Büro Destruct and 04B-03B by Yuji Oshimoto. Masayuki Sato's Hachipochi makes a few appearances every now and then.
Web Services
The domain name Tawawa.org is registered with GANDI rather than Verisign, thank you. The site is hosted by HostCulture.