About Me

This is the personal website of Stephen Woods. I am a web designer and developer. I am currently focusing on front end development, including clean, standards-based html and css.

I am not currently looking for freelance work, but I am willing to do some on a case by case basis.

News

September 1, 2006

I've got something new to show you: I adapted this for javascript as a little challenge for myself. Others have done it, and possibly better, but here is my useless javascript line drawing thingy.

I'm actually suprised by how fast this is, the only optimization I did was that described in the article (using the bitwise shift). This is still drawing out divs for pixels.

July 25, 2006

Hot of the press

The new Via Trattoria website is live, I think it looks nice, I did all the design and code for this. The content is sparse right now but the client is slowly sending it in.

June 17, 2006

Back-end Upgrade

I upgraded the backend of the site to the newly posted prototype of ReallySimpleCMS. As you can see, the URLs are nicer now and the site is no longer super-slow. Previous slowness was due to the fact that my old url system was foolishly based on a text query in the db. It isn't anymore and it is much faster. And its automated now.

June 5, 2006

World's Fastest Redesign

I completely redesigned this site. Back end is the same. Now the site has 100% more chicken. Also I added tabs that highlight. The highlighting is handled via the DOM, not the back end.

The delay was caused by me getting caught up in implementing a front-controller pattern for my css. Sounded a lot easier in the book that it was. I even gave up on the command dispatcher when I realized it was total overkill for a three page site.

June 5, 2006

Work Continues

Still working on this site. It is clearly a work in progress, but it will have to do for now. I think I may have spent too much time this weekend on the backend.

June 4, 2006

New Website

After a flurry of work and some serious kludging I got a new website up. I'd like to take the time to add more to this...some ajax would be cool for the portfolio.