slackingpants
blog and web development portfolio of Richard Gwilliam
About me
I'm a 27 year old Web Developer living in the South Yorkshire area of North England. I've been in professional web development since I graduated from university in 2006, that's three or four years at the moment. I will now provide you with more than you ever wanted to know about me.
Read more than you could ever possibly want to know about me...
Whyaye Away(e)
5 June 2010 - Tagged in ModX,Freelance,CMS,XHTML,CSS
Keen eyes may have noticed that last week Whyaye design went live, by way of its appearance in my portfolio. Mr. Matt's a furniture and product designer, meaning he not only makes some quality furniture but said furniture is certain to be both funky and wicked sick...
Whyaye Design
24 May 2010 - Tagged in ModX,Freelance,CMS,PHP,SEO,XHTML,CSS
Matt Barry is a talented up-and-coming designer in Sheffield. Although he's primarily a furniture and product designer, he was keen to expand his horizons into web design so it made sense for him to start with his own website. Whilst I restrained myself the back bench and offered advice on web usability, SEO and standards, he set about designing this intuitive, gorgeous and minimalist website...
DragonDot and the "death-knell of Flash Gaming"
9 March 2010 - Tagged in HTML5,Flash,Games,Javascript
I saw a cool thing today; a game developed entirely without Flash. It's been done before, of course, but traditionally Javacript games have been fairly fugly. In recent years, to my knowledge it's been basically given up in favour the massively more impressive effects easily created in Flash.
Since the release of programs like this and MugTug's sketchpad application it's been mentioned that HTML5's canvas element will put a nail in the coffin of the ageing Flash platform...
Welcome to the new look Slackingpants!
7 March 2010 - Tagged in ModX,Freelance,Design
Well, it's been a long time since I last updated the look of this site but the old Slackingpants was looking a little long in the tooth, not to mention a little clunky to use with the old Drupal setup. This is what I'm going to self-importantly call the rebirth of Slackingpants in its new ModX incarnation...
ModZX
27 February 2010 - Tagged in ModX,Freelance,Design,CMS,PHP,XHTML,CSS
ModZX is the theme I developed for my ModX-based portfolio. You may have gathered this already. It's designed to promote my previous work for employers and clients, and is gradually being further pimped out.
It's designed for minimalism, the darker tones...