NEDDC website ranked 10th in UK| 28th Feb 20(1/10) Accessibility results are in for the new NEDDC website and I'm really pleased that it's been ranked 10th out of 407 Councils in the UK, with a score of 93%
Image Switch On-Scroll Demo| 14th Feb 20(2/10) Scroll down the page to reveal a hidden image with this nifty before and after image switch effect. Change the CSS transition or animation to customise.
NEDDC RWD website launched| 10th Jan 20(3/10) My first major project in my new job! A responsive website for North East Derbyshire District Council, with focus on accessibility. The site will be officially assessed for accessibility soon.
Getting to grips with my new role| 14th Jun 19(4/10) 2 months into my new job and I've been using lots of brain-power wrapping my head around the new systems. It's been very rewarding so far and I get to work with a team of fab folks :)
Training for Web Technician cover| 25th Mar 19(5/10) 2 weeks to train my web cover before I go. I foresee many hours of document prep, code clean-up, and picking apart the "what the heck did that do" scripts from way back when. Fun!
HMS Garden Design RWD relaunch| 17th Mar 19(6/10) I got the go-ahead to work on a responsive redesign of the HMS Garden Design website. The site now works much better on a multitude of devices.
Krita freebie image editor training| 5th Mar 19(7/10) Spent the morning in an image editing training session with Ashgate Croft School. Krita makes a great alternative to Photoshop... and it's totally FREE!
Fast Cal minor warnings fixed| 2nd Mar 19(8/10) I've fixed a few missing variables that were generating minor PHP warnings. Only two core files updated. No new features to report this time though.
Brighter, whiter look for DHFS| 27th Feb 19(9/10) For the past few weeks I've been working on a cleaner website look for DHFS, which includes an always visible search bar to improve usability.
New role in local government| 6th Feb 19(10/10) Today I interviewed for the post of Application Development Officer within local government... I got the job! It will be strange to leave Education after 11 years, but here's to the future!
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Fast Cal v1 - Event Manager(4/12) Get a handy event manager to display calendar dates in a monthly grid, or full year event list. Link to files or websites and show event details in a popup.
Fast Feed v1 - RSS Manager(5/12) Get a nifty news manager to edit and update an RSS v2.0 xml file. Supports multiple users and includes optional image upload and one-click archiving.
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Fast Logs v1 - Logs Manager(7/12) Get a neat logs manager to show book chapters or updates in a small web space. Page numbering and one-click archiving keep things neat and easy.
Responsive Multi-Level Menus(8/12) A collection of CSS-only and JavaScript enhanced multi-level menus; Fly-out, drop-down, slide-over and off-canvas navigation for responsive websites.
Responsive Any Content Slider(9/12) A CSS-only and JavaScript enhanced content slider that can contain images, text, whatever! Includes navigation controls and cycles continuously.
Responsive Modal Gallery(10/12) A CSS-only and JavaScript enhanced gallery, where larger images open in a modal overlay/lightbox. CSS3 transitions provide an elegant fade effect.
Demos & Snippets(11/12) A smorgasbord of tasty online demos and code snippets, in delicious CSS, JavaScript and PHP flavours. Take a look! You may find something useful.
Blog - Musings, Tips, Advice(12/12) Find out what's interesting me in my latest blog entries. Here you'll find web tips and advice, and more code gems that don't fit anywhere else.
