Test Zone
Various ideas tried out …
Jewels by Jools
Much experimentation using JavaScript to load images into the page instead of reloading the whole page. Most of the clever bits are in the admin side which is not on view as this is a live web site.
Administration is simplified as much as possible - images are uploaded and then viewing the admin page causes them to be resized as appropriate and added to a database; a list of new/un-classified images is shown; each image can be given a title and put in a category for public display; categories can be added, removed or re-ordered.
Synesthesia
PHP parsing experiment to colour text.
Bus stops
Based on the "bus stop simulator" at www.wymetro.com re-designed to work nicely on my phone as well as desktop web browsers.
Their pop-up web page is a complex arrangement of frames and graphics from which I have extracted the useful information and made a clearer display which can be made to show info for any stop number, and which remembers your recent selections.
MUCH more practical than the original!
Currency converter
Downloads the most recent exchange rates from the European Central Bank, extracts data for euros, pounds and US dollars then displays an adjustable table originally intended for printing to take on holiday as a "ready reckoner".
Pi
Converts the digits of PI (3.1428...) into colour graduations. Inspired by the art of John Murphy (not that John Murphy).
Sliding navigation
An experiment in navigating large numbers of pages of data. A graphical alternative to listing "go to page 1, 2, 3, etc... ". It isn't all that polished in that the slider is not draggable, but it is extremely simple, reliable and does what was intended without the aid of javascript.