This site is very much an ongoing experiment in the various practices of web design. I hope to keep its design and platform changing regularly to give me a better understanding and experience of as many different technologies, tools and frameworks as possible.
At the moment the site is being hosted with A Small Orange, who have been really great, I've heard nothing else but good things about them.
To begin with, I am using a whole load of JavaScript to perform the dynamic tasks of loading in content for the widgets on the homepage. jQuery is the framework of choice and I cannot recommend it enough! Here are the resources that helped me get jQuery doing everything I wanted it to:
- jQuery's excellent documentation
- CSS Tricks: Build your own social home tutorial, for Twitter and Flickr integration
- 5 JavaScript Tricks made easy with jQuery, for helping me to figure out how to integrate Flixter's XML output
- Simpletip - a simple jQuery tooltip plugin
I've also slotted in Microformats for my contact details and movie reviews. I found these pages really useful in getting to grips with all that:
- Microformats wiki, really useful pages on hCard and hReview
- Smashing Magazine: Microformats: What they are and how to use them
- Technorati: Contacts Feed Service, lets you link to a page that will allow the user to download your vCard based on the hCard in your URL
- Great microformats icons from Wolfgang Bartelme
Also used on the site are some icons from FamFamFam's Silk icon set.
