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Wow, to think that IE7, followed by IE6, were the most popular browsers when I was first enlisted on this project! Nearly five years later, after many starts, stops, and re-starts as the content was refined, InvestigatingPower.org is live. I can't imagine many other projects that could have maintained my interest and dedication like this […]
Although it seems a little late in the game, CRFB had me launch a new tool that allows you to compare the budget plans of the leading presidential candidates. I suspect they'll add President Obama's plan soon enough. The site is clearly a rendition of the deficit reduction plan comparisison tool that I designed and […]
Beat the Debt was a quick turn-around project that went from a paper outline to a fully functional, albeit simple, site in 3 business days. I was responsible for the information architecture via a wireframe, basic design and branding (including a basic logo), and the coding/development.
Previously, I set up a form to automatically look up someone's congressional district and legislator by a provided ZIP code. It used the Sunlight Labs API along with a PHP class. The problem was that a given ZIP code can have multiple congressional districts. To further complicate matters, the Sunlight Labs data doesn't have the […]
Coded a custom HTML email template using my client's own branding with MailChimp's template system. Their (nice) system allows me to lock down the template by specifying which regions can be edited and which can be hidden. They've really done a great job with their service. One awesome feature is that they "inline" you CSS […]
Building out a little enhancement to a sign-up form that provides users with a list of their likely congressmen based on their supplied zip code. I'm using Sunlight Labs API, along with a third-party PHP library, to retrieve the results. The form fires a jQuery-based AJAX call as soon as the person enters their full […]
MailChimp, a mass emailing solution, offers an API so that you can use to create native, fully customized sign-up forms on a website. I'm using this API with a little PHP for a client's newsletter sign up. Of course, MailChimp also offers their basic copy-and-paste forms as well as MailChimp-hosted forms, but you can't achieve […]
I just upgraded CKeditor to version 3.6.2 and deployed it to all active installations of CMSense. Since the latest version of CKeditor supports iOS (at least iOS5), that means that the CMS and iPads are now good friends. Technically, it means it's iPhone compatible too, but I wouldn't recommend trying to do anything more than […]
Just launched the redesigned (and re-developed) website for VillaHippoCampo, a luxury rental property located in southern France.
In the middle of converting a client's old, Flash-only site (aka a site that doesn't work on iPhones and iPad) to a HTML/CSS based site. Converting the formerly ActionScript-powered form by using Twitter's Bootcamp CSS framework and a custom javascript (mostly jQuery) script for validation. UPDATE: view the case study