This website is XHTML 1.1 valid and CSS 3 Valid which you probably noticed by the icons on every page.
The other icon means this website was built entirely using Notepad ++. It is an open source text, html, php, etc. editor that I highly recommend.
All of the colors on this website are found on Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Starry Night is one of the most beautiful paintings ever created in my opinion, and this is a kind of tribute to it.
The "fade" effect on the links is created using Javascript, and so is the image gallery.