Front end HTML development
I first started dabbling in HTML in 1998 when I started building projects on a freelance basis. Since then I have become a proficient front-end developer, writing w3c standard-compliant and accessible markup, including building sites to AA accessibility standards. I have a lot of experience producing pixel-perfect HTML and CSS from PSDs, and have built countless HTML emails. I also develop XSLT to transform XML into XHTML.
Each freelance website I develop is cross-browser tested as standard for IE6 - 9, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari on Windows, Mac and iPhone & iPad platforms.
In addition to my frontend skills, I have years of experience with AJAX and manipulating the DOM with JavaScript and jQuery, integrating Google Maps and working with a wide range of APIs. I have also written an iGoogle application for MPORA.
Please contact me if you would like help with a web development project.
HTML blog posts
Throughout the course of my web development career I have debated this point with project managers, designers, clients, and even other web developers, who have argued that websites should look identical in every browser.
There are several reasons that is impossible
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- 23rd February 2011
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CSS, HTML
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I use jQuery cycle for lots of freelance development projects, but ran in to problems recently when building a photography site. My client was uploading around 40 high-resolution images in to a slideshow, which caused two problems
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- 15th February 2011
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CSS, HTML, jQuery
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I’ve just spent a while trying to fix a really annoying little problem using TinyMCE in Drupal 6, so thought I’d share the solution.
My client was entering content into a TinyMCE text field and had complained that the spacing between paragraphs and list items was too big.
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- 7th January 2011
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Drupal, HTML
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For my first post I’m going to write about the navigation bar on my own site.
I’d decided on fixed navigation, so as the user scrolls the navigation is fixed in relation to the browser window, rather than in relation to the document.
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- 4th November 2010
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CSS, HTML, z-index
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