I've been "re-designing" this site for along time now - it's been a single holding page for way to long. I found, like many other people, that if I spend to long working on it I get pretty board of it and have to start it from fresh again and it never seems to get finished. I knew for certain that I needed to get it built and live in a short timespan and I wanted the new site to be a blog with the possibility to extend it in the future, so I started looking at my options...
I spend a lot of my working day in PHP so when I come to coding in javascript I often get frustrated at the difference in functionality between similar sounding function names in the two languages. I use PHP's str_replace() function fairly frequently and often need to use it in JavaScript work. JavaScript has a function, replace(), which is a string replacement tool but it only works on the first instance it finds - this is functionally PHP lacks. I wanted a function that found and replaced all instances of the search term.