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I’ve decided to make use of the 50p domain name offered by my ISP and invest in a brand new site that I’ve decided to call www.meteograph.co.uk. What I intend to do with the site is display interactive charts and maps that I have built with the help of Highcharts. Highcharts is a Norwegian company who specialise in charting components written in SVG and JavaScript. Some of you might remember I did produce a website around six years ago that did the same kind of thing. It’s the same kind of thing again because basically it’s the same code base! In the meantime things have changed a lot in web development, and not always for the good, although I must say that Highcharts is even better than ever, and because I’ve got a non-commercial license to develop using it, it doesn’t cost anything either. I have found it rather a struggle though, any rudimentary HTML, CSS or JavaScript skills that I did have I seem to have managed to forget, so it’s been hard going getting back into the swing of things.
I’ll warn you now that a lot of the pages are still very much work-in-progress and many are still broken and require reworking. I’m getting up to speed though, so hopefully I’ll get round to fixing most of them in the next few months. I’ll also have to try to remember to upload the latest climate data on a regular basis, but if I do happen to forget, just drop me an email to remind me.