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.
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:
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!
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.
Now that the new year is here, many of us will forget to change the © copyright date on our many websites. I’ve never really been sure why developers don’t always automate this process and therefore not have to worry about it at the change of the year. In this short post I will show you some quick methods of automating this process.