About
My name is Simon Willans (according to my birth certificate, driver’s licence and mother. So I guess it must be my name). I am currently a university student studying Internet Computing at the University of Hull, Scarborough campus. During some of my spare time I like to design and build websites, either for personal projects or for various clients.
Where?
I was born in Middlesbrough, England on November 26th 1987. That is my first home and always will be, but I now reside in sunny (1% of the time) Scarborough where I am about to embark on my third year of university.
Interests
I have a wide array of interests, a lot of which you wouldn’t be able to tell just be looking at me. Anywho, I like… web design, web standards, pixel art, graphic design, product design, programming, music (anything from metal to classic, excluding dance and pop) deviantart, stumbleupon, delicious, flickr, photography, photographs, cars, motorbikes, football, basketball, cricket, badminton, hockey (street, ice and field), cycling, TV, food, walking, climbing and travel. Well those are some of the things I’m interested in. You get the idea.
This site
This design materialized via the use of magic. Not really, it was built using my imagination, the inspirational web, a pen and paper and Adobe Photoshop. The initial interface was hand-coded, somewhat painstakingly, to be standards compliant and to work in all major browsers (even IE6, although they’ll suffer for their lack of PNG-greatness support
If you would like to know about the technologies that help this site appear on the tinterwebs, here ya are:
The backend
- Wordpress 2.6
The blog tool and publishing platform - WordPress.com Stats
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. - Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form
Usabale, accessible and secure contact form plugin - A small orange
The orangy little host
The frontend
- Adobe Photoshop
Allowing me to make pretty things - CSS
Bringin’ the style - WP FancyZoom
Adding extra whoosh - jQuery
Adding a bit of life to web pages
