Ok, folks as you might notice on some of my clients’ sites I am a big fan of using jquery / ajax for rendering galleries of images. This is SUPER important nowadays so as to make them work on the all important APPLE DEVICES. If you are still using FLASH, then you need to work TWICE as hard to then create something that will render something close to your Flash creation for all of the iOS devices. SHEESH! Why do double the work! Just stop using Flash! Learn jquery to be able to do this! Ok so this is what I did on the home page. I wanted to add an OBVIOUS place for potential clients to see my portfolio… SO as I was considering adding this script, I realized that the site was too narrow… SO, I started adjusting the CSS first to see how wide the background element needed to expand, once I knew my measurements, I then just widened the swoopy gray area in photoshop to cover the width of the main element. The CSS across ALL of the pages took a bit longer AS USUAL! As there are always margins and padding here and there that you realize that don’t QUITE look right that you want to improve. Plus I added my favorites from CSS3: border-radius and box-shadow to a few of the elements like in the menu, and on the blog listing pages. Once all of that was done, I then started figuring out the sizing needed for the portfolio area on the home page. This turned out to be easier than I thought as I used a STRETCHY width element for the jquery. In this case I “cheated” with an iFrame, but it really doesn’t matter as there is no real text in this element anyway. The last thing I added was a absolutely positioned search tool in the upper left corner with a jquery live search element that I had used before. Anyways, I always love using this wordpress framework as it makes tweaking so fast and easy. All of the above only took a few hours of work this weekend.
Archive for June, 2011
Latest Updates to this site on 6/26/2011
Monday, June 27th, 2011Homage to Rocketeer – ANIMATED!
Saturday, June 25th, 2011Homage to Rocketeer – ANIMATED!!!
Don’t make up Reviews For Your Website
Friday, June 24th, 2011I generally enjoy most articles from Graywolf… but this one goes too far on how to get reviews for your website. I emphatically disagree with him on this. Instead of faking reviews, offer unbelievable service! Then reviews will come to you. I have found that if you make the review process easy that people will easily make the review… but they have to WANT to FIRST!
CSS3 Animations now work in FireFox 5!
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011Read up more on the CSS3 animations on this page for FireFox 5.0! If you are viewing this page on Firefox 5.0 or Safari 4+ or the latest Chrome and I BELIEVE in Internet Explorer 9.0, then you’ll see the below animation effect…
Dicovery Channel on Facebook
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
"Discovery has a total of nine people managing its Facebook pages… " This is a cool behind the scenes article on how the Discovery Channel team manages their 70 Facebook pages… Read it!
FireFox 5 is OUT!
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011Go get FireFox 5.0! It is out and has some cool new features…
I know for one that this browser is WAY FASTER!
Bye Bye YouTube Custom Player
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Bye Bye YouTube Custom Player! It was nice knowing you! Too bad nobody ever used it… You can still create playlists and choose share to get the embed code that way… YouTube API Blog: Sunsetting the Custom Player.
Call to Action Buttons
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011Successfully instilling a sense of urgency can be incredibly nuanced as well: membership portal site Kajabi observed a 2% lift when they changed their button text to read “Get instant access now,” but a 252% increase in conversions when this was changed to read “Get started today.”
This is a great article on improving call to action buttons… A/B testing is required to figure out what works best. Enjoy the read.
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Always own your own blog or site
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011Don’t host your site on someone else’s site on the internet. Be sure to maintain all control of all of your content, images, media and files. Make sure you always have backups of everything. Having a blog at tumblr or blogger is not a good idea as you don’t “OWN” what you put up there really… This is a great article on Why Not Tumblr!
A Bench for Hanging Around
Monday, June 20th, 2011Handmade Bracelets by Helen
Friday, June 3rd, 2011I have been kinda busy folks. Launched a new eCommerce site for my lovely wife. Here is a screenshot below. If you are looking at getting some nice handmade bracelets, please take a gander at these.








