The site is based on a Movable Type Content Management System, with mySQL storage on an Apache web server. Moveable Type is used to enter content and build templates, which are written to the web server as Coldfusion .cfm files. The deployment of a Macromedia Coldfusion application server allows us to enhance standard Movable Type features and gives us more options for integrating bespoke functionality. This has allowed us to do a range of things, from the integration of a vector space keyword matching engine (see below) to user interface improvements such as archive page pagination and categorising external websites.

Content items are organised by a faceted classification system inspired by Pixelcharmer. A combination of category naming conventions and Brad Choate's regex plugin allow us to set up multiple categories under the "themes" and "vision" facets and control their ordering on the rendered output using regular expressions.

The implementation of a vector space keyword matching engine allows us to automatically link individual content items with other relevant items (see the "related items" section), both on our site and from external sources. The system uses our own content to build a vector space of stemmed keywords. All local and imported content items are then mapped as vectors into this space, allowing the system to identify similar content items using simple vector geometry. The site monitors a number of external sites (using RSS/RDF feeds) on a regular basis.