A few changes have been made sporadically over the last two weeks to the Circa82 website.

• Captcha (spam protection) introduced to the contact form
  • This needed to be integrated as the spam levels were getting unbearable (I was getting fluent in Russian). A php script creates an image (and text reference) server side, which then checks against the user’s input on the form.
• Page Scroll
  • Whenever a user goes to a subpage, the page scrolls to the main content automatically (IE6+, Firefox). This is to counter some comments I’ve received about the user not knowing if they’ve gone to a new page (especially on smaller screen resolutions). I could have used a page anchor, but thought this had the opposite effect of the user not knowing where they have gone to. I’ll introduce a more robust version later to cover the more gruesome browsers.
• Project Scroller “Preloader”
  • The project scroller is JavaScript as we all know, but I didn’t like how the images were popping up when loaded. I’ve made a few changes to the CSS and markup, so that a small preloader graphic is loaded into each project <a href> background. The actual project graphic is then loaded into a <span> background which is inside the link and therefore loads on top of the preloader graphic.
• Project Scroller Changes
  • Thanks to Ben Marvell for having a look through my code and making a few fixes.