Category Archives: Coding

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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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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Adding hCard microformats to pages

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Craig

My friend Christopher posted his Markup Map for hCard Microformat the other day and it struck me that I should be putting this markup into a current project. I did that yesterday. In addition to his post, here are some … Continue reading →

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Adding glitz to the “Angel of Ahlem” site

Posted on October 16, 2007 by Craig

I didn’t design the “Angel of Ahlem” Web site for The Documentary Institute, but I did give them assist with some added functionality after the fact. The Photo gallery uses Lightbox 2. Vernon’s Journey uses Simile | Timeline and LightWindow. … Continue reading →

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Lightbox plugin added to College News

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Craig

I added the bas_lightbox plugin (alt link) to the Textpattern instance that runs College News. The plugin implements Lightbox 2 and allows you to use it within articles to create image galleries or enlarge-able images. Here’s the first story to … Continue reading →

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A Wiki I may be able to support

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Craig

After looking at a number of different things over the course of the school year, I think I can support PmWiki for the Wiki needs of College users. At least while we get our feet wet with the technology. Things … Continue reading →

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Replacing Magpie RSS with SimplePie

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Craig

It’s infrastructure week here with lots of behind-the-scenes coding going on with several of the sites. One such task was changing the RSS code library, which drives the news items on the home page, from Magpie RSS to SimplePie. Among … Continue reading →

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Date sorting by filename in PHP

Posted on February 6, 2007 by Craig

I have a few pages on the Web site, such as the Administrative Council minutes, that contain lists of links to PDF files. The date sorting comes by virtue of having files the files named like Minutes070122.pdf. The pages were … Continue reading →

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Geeking out over Web stats

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Craig

I happened up SlimStat this morning while looking for a Textpattern plugin to do something else. I found it via the wet_slimpattern plugin. I installed it first on one of the servers that runs Apache and it worked great. Then … Continue reading →

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QuickTime examples updated

Posted on May 4, 2006 by Craig

I have updated my example pages for adding QuickTime players to pages using the recently-mentioned JavaScript method. Here are the links if you’re not familiar with these pages: QuickTime streaming video QuickTime VR And while we’re on this subject of … Continue reading →

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