This site was originally to accompany my final year university dissertation, and was then neglected for about two years. Recently (about a week ago - december 2007), I had a look back at everything on here and realised one really big problem. It was not what I had set out to achieve in the first place.
Well maybe that's not entirely true. It did has a complete stylesheet layout, and remotely decent (transitional) XHTML. My main problem with the big whole everything-ness on here is that i think I've got OCD. And now I work at a web design company. So in the last two years, I've learned more than I ever thought i could or would bother to. Building websites is a weird beast. You learn how to do it. And then you learn all over again. And again. And again.
To bring things a bit more up to speed (or up to standard even), I've updated everything on this site. From the design, to the back end code to the templates to everything. Yes, everything. The old version is at v1webstandards.1ncu8u5.co.uk
This site is now running on my own little php-based CMS, even tidier compliant XHTML strict templates, improved accessibility, new compliant CSS stylesheets (with no hacks at all!), SEO, everything. I'm a little more of a happy bunny. But, as with everything, there's always more to do.
I hope to keep updating this site, adding new-found helpful links, and useful resources and maybe some of my own little test pages and various other useful bits and things. For old times' sake, I've left on the original dissertation report in it's entirety just so anyone can laugh, and I can look back and grimace. Just please, don't take a lot of it as gospel, as it's already outdated. Everything in the "Report" chapter is the dissertation. Everything else is new since then.
If you use anything off here, please link back to the site - and maybe even drop me a line to let me know so i can see what you've done with it. Yes I'm nosey, but giving and sharing are brother and sister. I think that made sense.
