I'm extremely pleased to announce that the website which I've been working on for Alcon 2010, a UK anime convention taking place 9th to 12th September 2010 in Leicester, has now gone live and open for registrations! The website can be visited at http://www.alcon.org.uk/.

It's been a bit of a labour of love and a great learning experience putting the website together. Work started early December and in the process I've been expanding my web development skills greatly, as well as getting to grips with jQuery for the first time. Everything that I've learned will feed back into future work and you can expect to see even more interesting things in the not too distant future.

Highlights of the Alcon 2010 website include:

- jQuery enhancement of the registration form which includes input styling, visual styling of completed and uncompleted mandatory fields, images which act as checkboxes, on-the-fly totalling of the subtotal and the jQuery UI dialog box.

- Uses embedded Google Maps to show how to get to the convention and embedded Youtube player to show the Alcon video playlist.

- Number of places remaining displayed in the header automatically refreshes via AJAX to show you the countdown of places.

- Uses the Galleriffic jQuery plugin to display a photo gallery of previous convention photos.

- Use of CSS3 browser implementations to visually enhance the style of the site whilst minimising additonal HTML code and images.

- Memberlist that shows member statistics and list of members attending, which can be filtered by and reloads via AJAX. The list also uses the Scrollfollow jQuery plugin to keep an alphabetical list always in view, inspired by the iPhone OS, allowing quick and easy navigation through the list.