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...
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...
Toad Footwear
27 February 2010 - Tagged in Magento,eCommerce,CMS,PHP,XHTML,CSS
Working at Rckt, I was tasked with constructing a new ecommerce site for Toad Footwear, purveyors of quality footwear in Chesterfield. Given a fantastic design created by my colleagues at Rckt and the opportunity of using the most powerful eCommerce tool on the market, I built what now stands at toadfootwear.co.uk...
Mary Monson Solicitors
27 February 2010 - Tagged in Freelance,PHP,XHTML,CSS
Mary Monson Solicitors approached me looking for a full renovation of their existing site for SEO, and to bring it up to date. They had already obtained designs for the website from their own designer, but were looking for some technical expertise to make it navigable and efficient...