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Hide jCarousel Until It Loads

July 7, 2011

Polishing the user interface is far to often categorized as "if you have time" which, from my experience is almost, always never. I am just as guilty, putting it off until crunch time. My own site is on a whole other level of "if you have time" as I am not making money from this, and quite often I am using it as a sandbox (slowly getting away from this, I'm finally using GitHub!) Today, I decided to fix the featured carousel on my homepage.

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jQuery Uniform

June 12, 2011

Another developer used jQuery Uniform in a project I am building, and it has really made me a much happier person. Uniform styles "hard-to-reach" elements: Selects, Radios, Checkboxes, and File Upload Inputs, the latter being what I am most happy about. If you have every tried to style these, you will know that it is not an easy undertaking and requires blowing away the element visually and replacing it with images. Uniform does all of this for you AND gives you the .psd files to easily create your own theme. Enjoy saving lots of time and impressing your co-workers.

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LESS CSS & Drupal 7

June 4, 2011

Recently, someone showed me LESS, a dynamic stylesheet, and never having used any type of CSS framework, I decided to give it a try. To add it to your site it is as simple as adding the javascript file in your header, renaming your stylesheet with a .LESS file extension and changing the rel to rel="stylesheet/less".

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ChopChop

ChopChop Magazine, a non-profit company, educating children and parents in healthy eating and exercise was built in the spring of 2011 on Drupal 6. The website features multiple content types like recipes, gardening how-to, exercise tips, games and interviews, with content specific landing pages. The site also features four custom landing pages for families, kids, doctors, and sponsors.

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EBN and Paywall

I was tasked with redesigning the paywall for Environmental Building News as well implementing that and various changes to the look of EBN on BuildingGreen.com.

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Julia Music

JuliaMusic.com is a custom build PHP website. It utilized Flash for an MP3 player, jQuery, and a WordPress blog. The website was launched in the fall of 2010 and is currently undergoing a redesign and build on Drupal 7 for a more dynamic website.

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Linnean Solutions

For Linnean Solutions, I worked with another developer to build the website, and then I designed it to the requirements set forth by the company owners. The website is a very clean and simple Drupal 6 build, utilizing a few contributed modules, but mainly core Drupal pieces.

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BuildingGreen

BuildingGreen.com's homepage, header and footer were redesigned by Modo Design Group and built by me. The newly designed elements were image heavy, so to combat page size, I implemented sprites.

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Dower Stone

DowerStone.com and DowerHay.com were created for Maple Lawn Farms, a landscaping and haying company from Rhode Island. The website is static but utilizes PHP and 960.gs.