Welcome all and sundry..

..to the website of DaFoot

Why 'DaFoot'?

Hmm... came about from using IRC too much during my undergrad degree at Aber uni.
For those not in the know, IRC is a protocol for chatting with people. We would use it to organise pub meetings mostly, no suprise really as we were mostly students in the particular chat room.
The name I used was Bigfoot, but there came a point when I couldn't get that name as someone else always seemed to be using it, after several mutations I ended up at 'DaFoot'.

About this site

Of course if you don't know me you are welcome too! There may well be something of interest for you too here (perhaps).
These pages contain info about stuff I am involved in at the moment from Judo to computer programming to spiders and scorpions!

Everything in these pages has been 'hand-coded' by myself using HTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL. So no use of any WYSIWIG editors like MS frontpage or Dreamweaver. Maybe this is the harder way to do stuff but I choose this way for a few reasons:

• To learn the technology in more depth
• Editors tend to add 'bloat' to files resulting in slower web pages - which no-one wants!
• Without the extra rubbish editors add it will hopefully be easier to maintain
• Just to see what I can do ;)

I am trying to keep up with cross browser stuff - unfortunatly I can't always (be bothered to) manage this. So while I test with IE and Firefox, there is a good chance there will be a lot of changes made that don't get checked in both browsers for a while. Same goes for resolution tests - looks lovely on my his-res 19" TFT :)

Testing mostly using the FireFox browser as it does what I tell it instead of what it thinks I want. If you fancy trying a differant browser, please click on one of the 'get Firefox' buttons on either side of this page...maybe I'll get a small fee then!
Of course if you prefer to stick to what you know...
I will continue to put in a few bits of random behaviour - this is much more fun to do that cross browser stuff!

All content in these pages is © Copyright Ben George aka DaFoot unless otherwise stated.
You MAY NOT use content (text), media (photos/vids) or code (HTML / CSS / PHP / MySQL or Javascript) from this site (dafoot.co.uk) in other sites without express permission from Ben George aka DaFoot.
Contact me to ask....I don't bite!