I’ve found some time and only gone and added extra functionality to Jayonline.
1/ AJAX functionality - to show the blog feed on the homepage which is in HTML format.
Partly due to Jeremy Keith writing ‘Bulletproof AJAX‘, a book which I have read recently. He has some examples of the code online, which is a great place to start playing around and seeing how the functionality can work for you.
The beauty of progressive enhancement. (more…)
Notes of the inaugural Scottish web conference organised by Alan White
An early start from Brighton to attend a conference in Edinburgh, with an interesting title. As Edinburgh is not in the highlands, but perhaps a great subtitle of progressive enhancement to attract us southerners to make the trip across the borders.
Aim of conference: The first Scottish conference based on progressive enhancement demonstrating what we can do today for tomorrow > learning the correct methods of web development > progressive enhancement of the web.
Photo of Jeremy Keith’s Secret Fling
Quote from the businessman who turned around Swatch in the 1980’s. Today responsible for around 25% of the worlds watch sales. Also on his portfolio are Calvin Klein, Omega and Tissot.
Best piece of advice
“I never follow advice, That’s because whenever I wanted to take a risk and create something new, I was advised not to do it. But I always went ahead and did it anyway.”
Whilst I was at the Highland Fling conference yesterday (report and notes to come after Easter Break), this site had dropped the CSS and proudly showed off its naked code, part of CSS naked day.
Of course this can be done anytime, by disabling the stylesheets and images in modern browsers, or using the firefox web developer toolbar, but delegates at the conference were reminded by Brothercake that people in Australia can only get phone line that give maximum of 14.4bps connection, resulting in browsing the web with a text only browser.
An exciting move for me, and a natural progression for most freelancers is to get a office for their business.
I have moved into the bustling North Laine area of Brighton. I have a second floor office on the corner of Jew Steet and Church Street. And no, it isn’t a shared workspace community.
I been in there 3 days and it’s a bit like moving house, you have to live and work there a while to get a feel for how you want everything around you. Of course, i’ve bought the obligatory Ikea office bits, a nice lamp and have room for my macbook and windows laptop.
The office has meeting facilities and room for my folding bike, its a really nice ‘next step’ in my freelance life.
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