About this website

This site is independent of Sutton Council, all political parties and candidates.

It is designed and written by Adrian Short.

Every page on this website prints beautifully.

The council candidates' data comes from Sutton Council who also provided information on council wards and parliamentary constituencies.

This site is written in Ruby using the Sinatra framework.

The code for this website is open source and available on Github. It is hosted by Heroku.

The postcode lookup is done by UK Postcodes using open data from Ordnance Survey enhanced by MySociety. I use the Ruby Pat gem to access the postcodes API.

The page templates use Haml. The database is SQLite for development and PostgreSQL for production, abstracted through DataMapper.

The fonts are Museo Slab and Museo Sans served by Typekit.