Today the web has gone beyond the browser and now content is syndicated through XML-based technologies, re-purposed for desktop and mobile applications and AJAX and web service-driven functionalities are commonplace.

With the emergence of the social web (or for want of a better phrase, Web 2.0), individuals are able, more than ever to connect with each other to form communities sharing common interests, regardless of location, class or race. The control over the dissemination of information has been put in the hands of the people and now anyone can publish anything (text, photos, video) and reach a global audience within seconds.

As the complexity of web applications increases, writing well-structured code is more important than ever. This is as much an art as it is a science. Since the beginning (for me at least, back in 1999) I have followed the standards-based approach to front end web development through the layered production of XHTML, CSS and JavaScript. This is bound up in the framework of accessibility and scalability to ensure your website or application is accessible and extensible now, and in the future.

Along with these front end technologies I use PHP and MySQL to power the back end to create dynamically-driven websites and applications.

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So after a few week’s of blood, sweat and tears I have finally got the 8th incarnation of my website: www.hungrybrowser.co.uk live. This time around it wasn’t so much a case of going for a new look and feel but more an exercise in content consolidation. Before I redeveloped this site I had a site for photos, one for work and one for blogging. I’ve managed to now get everything in one place, choosing WordPress as my publishing platform (although I had to do a lot of hacking the templates to get them to where I wanted).

As a side point I thought it might be interesting to have a look at some of the old versions of HB, so I’ve dusted down the source code and taken a few screen shots of the site as it has evolved over the past 7 years from 2001 to the present day.

The third installment in my DVD producing career was this 25 minute ski and snow boarding DVD that was shot in Whistler, Canada in January 2008. There is an accompanying website with a YouTube version of the DVD.

Inspired by my 2 month trip to Brazil in 2007 I put together another surfing DVD and accompany website to illustrate my travel and surfing experiences.

Following my 4 month, around-the-world surfing trip, I returned to the studio to set to work on WST06: World Surf Tour DVD.

The DVD gives an inside look into what it is like to travel the globe in search of waves and new experiences. 8 hours of footage were edited and condensed down into 50 minutes of DVD viewing. It is estimated that the footage took approximately 2 months to edit from the point it left the camera to the time it hit the DVD.

The DVD was sent out around the world to a select group of people who I met whilst travelling, I’ve have been hearing good reports so far, lets hope that continues.

To follow up the production of the DVD I built an accompanying website to showcase the DVD in a geographical context using a customised version of the Google Maps API. Visitors can select a point on the map and then view a brief explanation of the location and then watch the accompanying video clip.