DataTables are a brilliant plugin for JQuery that restyle and add functionality to your tables. They add searching, pagination and sorting right out of the box with very little configuration needed – unfortunately the sorting doesn’t support the UK date format so you need to add your own sorting methods – basic ones are supplied by the site itself but I have added a couple of tweaks to handle blank dates.
It’s been a while since this actually went live – but at last I can show off a few of the pages from the latest Magento eCommerce site I have built – AnythingSurf.co.uk.
Building websites that can be quickly and easily updated is vitally important but with so many content management systems available how do you make the decision as to which one to use. Here are a few approaches you may not have come accross.
I am pretty sure I missed the boat with this one but I feel like I should do my bit to contribute to the worthy cause of getting some decent Javascript documentation at the top of relevant google searches.
For this project we added the Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript libraries to find.gg in order to provide some sliders and AJAX functionality for a loans aggregator for the local Guernsey market.
Quantum has set the global standard for innovative yacht technology. In 1999, Quantum invented and implemented the first successful dual-purpose roll stabilization system, trademarked as ZeroSpeed. This website build was a wordpress site built to a design put together by our in-house designer and included javascript fading images and popup windows for video, for which we used flowplayer.
This project was undertaken to add a new dimension to searching for and finding property in Guernsey. Sellers or estate agents are now able to position a marker on a google map to indicate the location of the property and buyers are able to see this location on a map when viewing the property details. This involved plenty of javascript integration between the find.gg website, it’s Ruby on Rails backend and the google maps API.
We could see that a huge amount of SEO traffic was navigating to the calculator even though the links to the calculator were not emphasised. We added the calculator to try and engage that traffic in order to improve CTE. By giving customers access to the functionality that they want we hoped to keep them [...]
In Sept 2007 I designed a new landing page and added a number of enhancements to the application form. Primarily these were client-side enhancements based on usability. The design was never fully utilized but the application form enhancements were retrofitted to the current site. This new design was an attempt to add clearer messaging and [...]