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After manually coding and managing "states" for two or three prototypes (e.g., public users vs logged-in users), I decided to heed DRY — don't repeat yourself. Introducing Permit.js. It's a jQuery plugin that makes building interactive, multi-state prototypes for websites and apps easy. I know I'm going to be using it on my own projects […]
I've posted a new case study about the work I did for the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) Make an Impact project. On behalf of one of their corporate clients, I designed and developed a pledge application/website. The site allowed their partners's employees to pledge to change a variety of actions to modify […]
With a little help of my (GitHub) friends, I've updated timeliner.js such that it now allows multiple timelines per page. Check out the demo.
I originally wrote the markup for the ReadyNation website in about 2005. In web years that's the equivalent of a 300 year old home, which meant development of new features and layouts took much longer than ideal. So this week I set out to update the entire site. I leaned on my good friend, the […]
It's an unfortunate truth that some projects don't come to fruition as fast as I might hope. Despite enthusiasm on all sides–from the client, from me and everyone else involved–some projects just take a long time to get launched for a variety of reasons outside of my control. Case in point, the website that I […]
Not all organizations have the resources to upgrade to the latest technologies. But that doesn't mean they have to miss out an all of the trends. In this case, we refactored the CSS on a Drupal 6 site to provide several responsive versions including mobile (portrait and landscope) and tablet versions. Using media queries and […]
Pleased to launch the brand new website of the National WIC Association. This 9-month project entailed a complete information architecture overhaul; development of a fully integrated system to support content management, association/membership management, event management, and payments; and design implementation of an entirely new responsive/mobile-friendly HTML5 and CSS3 user interface. Other technologies employed include the […]
The 120DaysMovie.com website is for a documentary film by Ted Roach. Originally designed and developed nearly two years ago, It was essentially put on ice while the film production was being completed. Even though web technologies and design aesthetics seem to change at the speed of light, I'm happy with how the site turned out […]
I've got a new site coming out for a documentary filmmaker — well an old site that was on hold for almost 2 years — that has some background audio (aka "soundtrack") enabled via the SoundManager2 javascript API. The site also has a trailer video (of course), so I had to take advantage of the […]
Performing a major code rewrite of NDTAC's Fast Facts as part of their annual data update. Previous versions relied heavily on MySQL data requests to render the site's Google Chart / Visualization API-based charts, as well as supporting data tables. With the new version, I've moved to loading the necessary dataset into an associative array […]