Welcome
Welcome to beplacid.net, the home of Alex Collins on the web. You can see my code, read my blog or contact me.
This site is built & maintained as a hobby, and also as a frontend to my Linux server that I run to learn Debian administration. If you're looking for anything related to Lake Placid, you're in the wrong place.
News
Usability & SEO Updates, Saturday 29 Nov, 2008
I've made some improvements to inline navigation to help with usability and SEO.
New Quotes Feature, Tuesday 2 Sep, 2008
The quotes section now has some nifty Javascript to dynamically show the selected quote when clicking the link.
New Section - Photography, Thursday 17 Apr, 2008
Introducing the Photography section of beplacid.net. I'm busy altering the image descriptions (as they're initially created by a python script) and names to ensure they're making sense. If you notice any bugs, please contact me.
Style Update, Sunday 9 Mar, 2008
I was never quite happy with the navigation bar being vertically aligned. After much pondering and hacking about, I finally got a working version of a horizontal navigation bar. Much more pleasing on the eye, and gives me a lot more flexibility with the content area. Also added a feedback section (click the random slogan 'arrow' button, and you'll see).
Learning jQuery with AJAJ, Saturday 8 Mar, 2008
I implemented a quick and easy slogan switching function. You'll see the arrow next to the slogan at the top of each page. Clicking it randomly selects another slogan using jQuery & JSON. Lovely stuff :)