IceColdinAlex.co.uk has been written using PHP, an open-source, server-side, cross-platform, HTML-embedded scripting language! Most of PHP's syntax is borrowed from C, although there are elements from Perl, C++ and even Java.

PHP started life in 1995 as "Personal Home Page", before evolving into the recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". It is a sister project of the Apache Software Foundation.

The site also uses a MySQL relational database. SQL (generally pronounced "SEQUEL") stands for "Structured Query Language", the most common standardised language for accessing relational data.

Like PHP, MySQL (officially pronounced "My-S-Q-L") is also open-source software, which means that anyone can use and even modify them, without paying a penny! :o)

Unfortunately, after 16 years, our original ISP went out of business. IceColdinAlex.co.uk is now hosted by Falcoda Internet.

Site search functionality is provided by Sphider, an open-source web spider and search engine.

Our mapping functionality makes use of the Google Maps API.

The flags used as country markers on the map were provided by IconDrawer.

All other flags courtesy of the World Flag Database.

The jQuery photo gallery plugin, GalleryView, was developed by Jack Anderson at spaceforaname.