I've been working on one of my old portfolio pieces again of late, Write on Time. I've been updating it and making things even easier to use than they were before. Going over the code I've noticed two things.

1. My coding skills have improved a great deal since coding the site.
2. The capabilities of web design have changed vastly in the months since I coded the site.

What's changed things so much? From where I'm looking at things it's from the increased use of javascript libraries, such as mootools or, in my case, jQuery. The capability of these libraries is somewhat immense and I'm already putting new functionality into the site for the clients.

I've always been one who has shied away from using anything too fancy, or that will "break" when the functionality behind it all (javascript in this case) is turned off. But some of the functionality provided by these libraries is a must have, and a lot of it breaks in functional manners, leaving little reason for at least some of it to be left out...

Posted by Wulf on May 8, 2009, 10:05 pm