I am proud to announce the release of a new website, for actor and musician Henry Blake.
Henry began professional acting in his native home of New Zealand at the age of 12 and was the youngest ever to be nominated for Best Newcomer at the Chapmann Trip Theatre Awards for his performance as ‘Boy’ in Waiting for Godot at Circa Theatre. Henry is a musician, singing and playing guitar from an early age and playing in various rock/punk bands.
You can read more about Henry in his biography.
Henry got in touch with me last year after seeing my work on Toby Manley and asked if I could create a website for himself and another actor (more on that later). I was delighted to help and have been working on both of them these past few months.
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I finally got around to playing about with the <canvas> element of HTML5 and amongst other things I have written a simple bar chart creator and have written about it over at html5laboratory.
All comments welcome.
I’ve altered my already small homesite to run that bit faster by optimising both my JavaScript and CSS files, and also allowing Google to host the jQuery file.
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I have made a few changes to iandevlin.com, adding a new services section to indicate that I am now also available for hire to do freelance web design and development work.
I do work full-time so my availability might be limited, but it’s best to contact me first to check my workload. But please do get in touch.
A brief list of the web development skills I can offer:
- XHTML
- HTML5
- CSS
- JavaScript
- jQuery and MooTools
- ASP.NET: C# and VB.NET
- Object Oriented PHP
- MySQL
- SQLServer 2005
- IIS
- Apache
As you may have noticed, I have been messing around with HTML5 a lot lately, even making my personal website HTML5 compliant. To say the least, this has tweaked my curiosity a lot and I knew that I would be playing around with the new features that HTML5 has to offer and thought that I should create a new site, in HTML5, where I can share my experiences when experimenting with these elements.
And thus HTML5 Laboratory was born!
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When I redesigned iandevlin.com as a business-card style website, I was a bit lazy when it came to the contact form. Other than making it snazzily slide down when the @ symbol graphic is clicked on, I didn’t do much else with it, leaving it the way it was – using a CGI script to send the email (I know! Seriously!)
I always had the intention of changing it but never actually got around to doing it for various reasons that range from just not being bothered to being lazy. But after reading a form of madness over at Dive Into HTML5, I decided that the time had come to actually get on with it, and to make use some of the new elements within html5. And so I have.
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