Posts Filed as Adventures

jQuery Resizer! – resize objects that are greater than a specified width

February 8th, 2011

Today I launched the new design of Escape From Cubicle Nation, which I’m very proud to have worked on. Props to Brian Morykon for the design, Joseph Hinson for the code. My last order of business in coding the site was that some of the Youtube videos and embeds had been inserted at a width of 640 pix…

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Make iframes load after page content (with jQuery)

October 15th, 2010

In my work I create a lot of WordPress sites for my clients, and often times we’ll put the share links and social proof in the footer of each post. Some time ago, facebook introduced the like button for public use with iframes, which makes it very easy to incorporate just about anywhere, the only p…

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Using CSS Media Queries

April 27th, 2010

I wanted my website to be a little easier to read in the iPhone. I knew there was a new CSS3 property called Media Queries. This allows you to discriminate based on window size. So, in the header, as I would normally pull in a stylesheet, I can say: And that will pull in a stylesheet for the iPhone, mine look…

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I love jQuery

April 18th, 2010

The theme GeekOut, which as of this moment I am using on this site and may release once I decide to go in a different direction with the design, uses jQuery to accomplish a number of things. 1. The animations that are featured both in the navigation and the social media icons I’m using the jQuery an…

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Helpful WordPress Shortcode – showthumbs

April 6th, 2010

I was working on my daughter’s blog, which might be the most robust blog I’ve built, because it is my testing grounds for new features to add to WordPress sites/blogs. Tonight I added a neat kind of functionality, something I’d like to share. Shortcode to show thumbnails. Here&#…

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Exploring Mobile Web Apps, day 1

March 23rd, 2010

Tonight I cracked open jQTouch and started poking around. First let me say that this thing is incredible. It’s really impressive. It’s almost hard to believe that it’s only jQuery and CSS3, but it’s really impressive. From Jonathan Stark’s talk I knew he had a text…

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