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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
Converting a fully Flash-based website for a French financial firm to HTML and CSS. Also completely converting and integrating its static pages into a content management system. The client's new site will use HTML5 markup and, unlike the Flash version, will be fully usable on devices running iOS (e.g., the iPhone and iPad). UPDATE: view […]
Catching up on some unfinished business, including the application of speed optimizations to several websites–minified the CSS and JS, enabled GZIP compression, and added expire headers. Brought the overall weight down by ~20% on some sites and greatly improved their YSlow score. As a second phase, I'm going to review some older sites to make […]
Just switched this site's commenting system over to disqus (from a previous custom built system). A little PHP allowed me to tailor their system to my site's needs (e.g., excluding it from certain pages). All in all, it was super easy. I then went ahead and imported the site's existing comments, which took a little […]