Welcome

Last Updated :: 14^th June 2009

Hi, and welcome to my homepage. These pages are here mainly to show that with my amazing com-pooter skills I can write a simple web-page. Feel free to look around, at the least you might see some pretty pictures or find a scrap of code that might help you out.

If you are vaguely interested in anything on the site, please feel free to susbscribe to my Atom feed. Sometimes it gets updated ;)

NEW! Business card barcodes. Generate a QR barcode containing your contact details, or any other data you want.
NEW! E-book to audiobook converter. Create machine read audiobooks, based from sources in various file formats.
NEW! Fun with robots. Some imagery from my work with laser scanning at IGES.
NEW! Parody text generator. Create nonsense text in parody of your favourite author.

Goals & Aims

Throughout the site I am trying to keep the content as accessible as possible:

• Navigation uses lists, and layout is achieved through use of divs instead of tables, to be screen reader friendly.
• Any use of JavaScript should only enhance default viewing of a page.
• The site uses a different style sheet for printing, omitting messy headers and superfluous colour and images.
• HTML source has been kept clean and simple, so that user-defined stylesheets should make a difference.
• All style is designed to scale, no fixed-width and px hacks have been used.
• Where possible I have kept to strict W3C standards, with a few minor exceptions.

Things that still need to be done:

1. Navigation lists should come at the end of the HTML source to stop blind people having to hear them being listed every time a page is linked.
2. Silly use of JavaScript buttons and popup windows needs to be removed.
3. A stylesheet for screen readers needs to be developed using the latest CSS voice defs.