jQuery

article

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.

article

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.

portfolio

Basis

Developed and designed for project and release management, Basis was launched in the spring of 2011. The project was designed to replace and unify other monthly subscription based management tools. Basis uses Drupal 6, Organic Groups and the Project and Issue modules. As those modules do not function together out of the box, another contributed module was used as glue with custom development finishing the process to make the pieces work together better.

portfolio

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.

portfolio

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.

portfolio

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.