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...
Shoes and the folk who sell them
2 February 2011 - Tagged in Freelance,Magento,eCommerce,CMS,PHP,XHTML
Over Christmas I was finely balancing turkey and workey, bringing Toad Footwear over to my hosting and managing their seasonal email campaigns. It's a genuine pleasure to have Toad as a client, it's always been a website I've been proud of building.
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...