In March 2001, the official web site for Pi Day was born. As a high school calculus student, Dan Hellerich registered the domain name piday.org and put together a few informative web pages about Pi and Pi Day.
Today, this web site aims to be the online hub for everything related to Pi. Your participation is what makes this a reality: Share links & information with us by participating in our Discussions, or by e-mail at ideas@piday.org. Take pictures of your Pi Day celebrations & send them our way. If you're the owner of a pi-related website or have pi-related products, get in touch & we'll link you up.
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Press Contacts
We're delighted to take interviews about Pi Day and this web site, send us an e-mail. Pi Day 2008 News Release
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This is the third incarnation of Piday.org since 2001. Some techniques used in the design of this site (CSS and some graphic treatments) are inspired by a talk given by Dan Cederholm at An Event Apart. The colors are from by the 'Peacock' scheme on Adobe's Kuler tool. The 'logo' uses Adobe's Garamond for the Pi symbol and Futura Condensed Bold for the text. The eCards engine is custom PHP and uses ImageMagick to add your own message in Apple's Chalkboard font. The "pi ticker" at the top of the site uses Jason Kottke's Silkscreen font, as does the chiclet-style widget — though I wish I could kern in ImageMagick. All other text is in beautiful Helvetica, if you have it. Most pages are published using WordPress and a custom WordPress Theme. The Shop is powered by CafePress. Statistics are tracked using Google Analytics. Mostly built on a Mac using Transmit, TextWrangler & PhotoShop. Photographs of 'Chloe' the cat taken with a Canon SD450.
Produced by Dan Hellerich & Kevin Fusselman, 314 Solutions, Inc.
Sponsorship
Many of our expenses are covered by advertising with Google and sales through the CafePress shop. But, we would consider taking a math-related company as a sponsor to this web site. If you're affiliated with a company or organization who would benefit from the exposure this web site has, get in touch.
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