Author Archives: Craig

Blowing off the dust here

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Craig

I haven’t posted here in about a year and half and decided today that it’s time to blow the dust off the old blog. That started with an update to WordPress 3.0.2. We are also working on a new template … Continue reading →

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Some recently useful WordPress plugins

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Craig

A few projects that have come up recently that were best accomplished by setting up some instances of WordPress. The Study of the U.S. Institute on Journalism and Media is the first case where I’ve set up WordPress more as … Continue reading →

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Meet me at SXSW ’09

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Craig

I’m heading out tomorrow to begin my journey to this year’s SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX tomorrow through Tuesday (flying back Wednesday). I have described it in the past as a giant, five-day-long group hug for the builders of … Continue reading →

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Fall ’08 communigator going up

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Craig

The content from the Fall 2008 issue of communigator is in the process of Web production. I once again wanted to do a more-extensive redesign of the site this time, but that didn’t happen. Or at least it didn’t happen … Continue reading →

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Journalism Now podcast launched

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Craig

The College’s Center for Media Innovation and Research launched last week The Journalism Now Podcast, hosted and produced by my colleague and friend Dave Stanton. I’m involved to the extent that I provide the Web server infrastructure for the site. … Continue reading →

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WordPress updated to version 2.7

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Craig

I updated the WordPress instance that powers this blog to version 2.7 this morning. The admin UI is once again very different and I like what I see so far.

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From Flash to jQuery

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Craig

I’ve written a few times before (1, 2, 3) about techniques for rotating images in place on a page, such as is done on the home page of the College site. The brief history is that it started in JavaScript, … Continue reading →

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Most viewed posts, 3Q 2008

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Craig

I still need to post here more often. Maybe now that it’s Fall and I’m working on some cool stuff, I’ll make (or find) time. According to Google Analytics, the most viewed posts in this time frame were: Date sorting … Continue reading →

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Spring ’08 communigator done

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Craig

All the content from the Spring 2008 issue of communigator is now online. I wanted to do a more-extensive redesign of the site this time, but ended up in a time crunch on some early content so all the design … Continue reading →

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Take the A List Apart Web Design Survey

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Craig

I did. So should you.

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