Archive for August, 2006

Web Forms 2.0 W3C Working Draft

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

The Web Forms 2.0 specification that was drafted by the WHATWG has been published as a W3C Working Draft. This spec provides many enhancements to traditional HTML forms including new form controls, a repetition model, XML submission, and DOM interface and event enhancements.

The spec is still being developed by the WHATWG, but has been published by the The Web Application Formats Working Group’s Rich Web Clients activity.

Redesign Needed

Monday, August 7th, 2006

I desperately need to redesign this site. The problem is, as my regular readers (or, indeed, anyone looking at the current style) will know, I’m no designer. The current design was done over 2 years ago and was basically haphazardly put together by writing and rewriting the CSS until I had something that looked reasonable at the time. I don’t even have a logo.

So I’d like to ask for some help from my readers. There must be somebody out there with some design skills who would be willing to volunteer their time to draw something up. I don’t need, nor want, any too complex or time consuming, just a nice simple design that’s easy on the eye and easy for me to implement.

I’d also really appreciate a logo. Again, nothing too fancy, just something simple and effective that I could print onto my business cards, which is another thing I need. I keep getting asked for a business card, yet I don’t have any. I really should organise those before Web Directions next month.

So, if you’d like to volunteer your time and skills for this task, leave a comment or contact me privately. If I get a few volunteers, I’m happy for you to either work together to come up with one design or individually to come up with a few different possibilities.