web nerdery hunted & gathered in Anchorage, AK
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
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
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
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
Clever title; not mine.