Archive
December 2009
14Dec
There were a few areas of the new website that I was kind of excited about showcasing as I thought they were a little different or possibly even something brand new. One of these things is the contact form.
The form itself is pretty standard, really there’s not much you can do to make a form exciting, and with three text boxes and a textarea there isn’t much complexity to try and improve the user experience. In the background the validation of the form is also fairly standard except for one small feature; the email validation.
Continue reading “Email validation a new way”
8Dec
Recently I received an email asking how I achieved one of the effects I have used on my website, so rather than be evil and keep it to myself, or just reply to the one person I thought I’d make use of this blog I have and use it to publish the answer. The crux of the question was:
I was wondering if you would be willing to share your techniques for getting the LastFM list to display INSIDE the CD frame.
I actually use the effect a few times though the website, as well as the last.fm feed on my about page it is also used for the Flickr feed, email avatar previews and recently for the portfolio list items.
Continue reading “Listener question – PNG Overlays”
5Dec
The current design of this website has been live for about a month and I’m already changing some elements of it. In my defence I did start this design back in March 09 so some bits aren’t as new to me as they are to everyone else.
But I like this site?
Don’t worry I’m not changing anything drastic. Given the response I had for the design I’m hoping this design will hang around for a while, mainly because I can’t afford to get straight back into designing another version. But there are elements here and there I want to improve; the first is something that would probably go unnoticed if I didn’t decide to write a blog post about it.
Continue reading “Changing stuff already”
4Dec
A couple of weeks back I posted about how I managed to cock up the comments on my site at a time when I had more traffic than the site has probably ever had in it’s whole existance.
The problem seems to be that I changed the folder name my javascript is stored but not change the link to the necessary document in the head of my site. As always the smallest oversite can have the biggest consequences. While I worked to find this tiny error I have done some clean up work on the code that should have been used to submit the comment form.
I’ve tested the comments fairly comprehensively this time round but given my track record and my uneasy sense of if forms are actually working I just wanted to ask that if you have any problems with the comments then to please let me know via the contact page or twitter.
Thanks