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The Definitive Modal Layer
For the last couple of years we’ve been using modal layers where it made sense, basically most places where we would’ve used pop-ups in the old days, i.e. modal layer is to Web 2.0 what the pop-up was previously. But all the while I never felt like I was able able to lock down any solid way of doing this. Every time the issue came up I’d re-visit the functionality, never overjoyed with my latest implementation, so I never came up with a final solution. Depending on the website I was working with and the libraries they were already using…
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Running jQuery alongside MooTools
For my latest project I was given the fun task of having to build a microsite modal layer for a third party website that I had no access to, not even to a dev environment. I figured the best way to do it would be to do everything in a JS file that would inject all the html and such, so there’d no need for the mess of sending over instructions to add multiple chunks of html/css/js into various spots on the page, just the one JS call. And jQuery was perfect for this, so I set on my merry…
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Video Slideshows With Animoto
Researching for a client recently I came across a neat little service called Animoto. The problem we had was needing a photo gallery that lives on a single page. Not a huge problem in itself and any of these… would work, or numerous others I’ve worked with or built over the years. But the issue here is the CMS we have to work with doesn’t have the ability to upload media, this has to be done separately via FTP, so it’s a messy process and not ideal to leave in the hands of the account team. So I figured
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Flash Windowless Mode (wmode)
Just over a year ago when we were done ideating the “nextgen” Ford vehicles site and moved into prototyping and early production I put this document together. Disabling wmode had long been the practice of my company and being on the team charged with developing the next generation site we felt that enabling it was a compulsory step to stay competitive with our websites moving forward. It stemmed from a discussion with our multimedia team, I can’t remember now the exact words they used but according to them the whole idea of wmode was a bad hack by the Flash…
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Web Color Schemes using Colorschemedesigner.com
Unfortunately I can’t design. I can art direct websites to a certain extent, being that I have the web experience, taste level, and eye for detail that my opinion is always welcomed by my creative colleagues. But give me a blank canvas to work with and I am stuck. Even when it’s something as simple as personalizing colors for my Twitter homepage I don’t have the confidence to hand-pick a palette myself from scratch. Luckily I work alongside some of the top creative talents in the industry and am spoiled for choice when it comes to picking a designer for…
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Make your own magazine – Issuu.com
Every now and again I run across a site/web app/web service that gets me really excited and restores my faith in the power of the web and the power of the people that make the web – the users and the developers. And today that site is Issuu.com…. In a nutshell it is the YouTube of magazines. Any budding publisher can now make their work instantly available to the world, and the rest of us can spend our time enjoying the creative work offered. And just like YouTube the magazines you create are embeddable into your website (it does