Website Optimisation
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.
Web Developer for Hire
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
IETester – testing and debugging in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8
Like all web developers, I need to test how my pages look in different browsers. Doing this on Firefox, Safari, Opera and the whatever version of Internet Explorer you happen to have on your machine is easy, as they all happily run alongside each other on the same machine.
But what about the different flavours of Internet Explorer (IE)?
Recreating a .designer file in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
If, like me, you sometimes end up with a corrupted designer file in Visual Studio, the best way to recreate it is as follows:
- Delete the current .designer file
- Right click the .aspx file and select “Convert to Web Application”
And that’s it, the file should be recreated.
asp:Textbox – the difference between ReadOnly and Disabled
Again this may be something that is old news to some of you, and perhaps it is to me as well and I had forgotten, but today I was hugely frustrated with .NET seemingly ignoring some perfectly populated fields and the validators reporting that they were empty.
Wildlife Focus chat feature
I’m currently working on a chat feature for the Wildlife Focus site, which is run by the World Land Trust. Since this is a charitable organisation doing great work, naturally I am doing this for free.
The initial requirement is to allow registered users to be able to post comments on the webcams that are being displayed, allowing them to discuss what they see etc. In the future it will be integrated with PHPmotion, which the site uses to show user uploaded videos, allowing live discussions.
I’ve only started it, but have got quite far already. It’s being built with PHP, AJAX, MySql and of course HTML and CSS. I’ll keep you updated on how it’s going.