I am pleased to announce that the ImageEngine Project Page is now live. On there you will find examples, instructions and sample files for installing ImageEngine 4 on your own site.

I’ve made some important enhancements to Image Engine, and bumped the version number to 4.0.2. Significant changes are as follows: Introduced improved handling of missing or incomplete HTML elements. Made a change to the method used to capture the slide description. Instead of trying to step through the child nodes of the <dd> element, the [...]

I’ve made a small tweak to the Image Engine Javascript that drives my portfolio browser. In the initial release, the script automatically started pre-caching all the full-sized images as soon as the page had finished loading. Now only the first 5 images are pre-cached; after that, images are loaded on demand as they are selected. [...]

This evening I am very pleased to be able to announce the launch of my brand new portfolio pages, featuring more than 100 samples of artwork from the last 15 years that I have been working as a professional artist. This is made even more exciting for me as I’m using new slide show software [...]

I’ve recently started work on a HTML/CSS/Javascript image browser that I think could be very cool if I can get it to work. I have some ideas that I think make it potentially very flexible and useful for any artist who wants a stylish and easy to use way of displaying their images. However, my [...]

Recently .Net magazine launched a campaign to bring down Internet Explorer 6: The premise is simple: Internet Explorer 6 is antiquated, doesn’t support key web standards, and should be phased out. When I was developing this site, I chose to use PHP to generate browser specific CSS. This method is less than ideal, as browser [...]

My good friend, top code monkey and bloody nice bloke Bobbin Threadbare of Hidden Games has just released his first game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Air Cadets is a fun little 3D arcade style flying game, designed from the outset to be quick and easy to learn and play. The 3D graphics push [...]

After reading about the silktide sitescore tool on Nitallica’s blog, I put this site to the test. It fares pretty well, getting the maximum score for accessibility and design, and scoring a respectable 8.5 out of 10 overall. What brings the score down is my lack of visitor votes (hint, hint). If you would like [...]

If you are using Opera, you might notice that the banner of this site is a bit broken. I have no idea why this is, I can’t spot anything obviously wrong with the XHTML or the CSS, and it works correctly in Internet Explorer (5 and 6 on Windows, 5 on Mac OS), all the [...]

I do all the design and testing of my site on my own computer (using OS X built in Apache server), before uploading new content to my Dreamhost server space. After adding the WordPress installation, I was hoping I could connect to the same Dreamhost MySQL database from my local test version, so that I [...]