My backcountry skiing and mountaineering blog, Dehydrated, is an Ajax-enabled photo-blog that I wrote from scratch. It’s extremely simple, as it is meant to upload and display ski phtotos–and that’s it. The photography presents the user with a larger download than I would like, but it would defeat the purpose of the site to degrade the quality of the photos. Therefore, I used client-side scripting in a couple places to accelerate things for the visitor. I’d like to highlight some of these features. Continue reading →
As more designers implement CSS3 properties with vendor prefixes (-moz-border-radius or -webkit-box-shadow, for instance), they're facing ugly blocks of redundant CSS. Eric Meyer argued convincingly that the prefixes are a necessary evil, and Aaron Gustafson offered a client-side method for … Continue reading →
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The UTU is the labor union that represents that train and enginemen of the Alaska Railroad. They needed a website for broadcasting news to union members and I thought my home-made blogging platform would work perfectly for them. The design is inspired by old-west wanted posters, but with modern overtones in important spots. Continue reading →
revelatedesigns.com is a beautiful new website designed and developed by Billy Finley at www.couloirgraphics.com. Billy often sends me a photoshop document of what the design should look like, along with some comments on areas where I can compromise certain design features, perhaps in certain versions of Internet Explorer. This was a challenging project because the design is very precise and there were no compromises allowed: The navigation menu had to feature the correct font, visual effects like rounded corners, drop-shadows, and transparency had to work in all browsers, and the various layers of the header design had to fit pixel perfect. Continue reading →
I enjoy writing php and interacting with databases. I have even coded and employed a blogging platform from scratch. So why is this site powered by Wordpress, and proudly powered at that? Continue reading →
This project involved a minimal amount of design, but required a lot of database work. Billy Finley created the plan for about 12-15 online surveys for The Foraker Group, the largest non-profit in Alaska. He brought me in to help implement his idea and it was a great chance for me to put into practice Adobe’s Cold Fusion, a direct competitor of my native server-side language, php. The big achievement with this project was how we made a huge amount of data so flexible, so accessible, and so drop-dead simple for the admin user. Continue reading →
