Craig’s Work Blog

Activity, news, and notes from the college Web administrator

Archive for June, 2005

Fading image transitions revisited

June 30th, 2005

I previously wrote about using a JavaScript effect for fading transitions between jpeg images on a web page. While looking for something else, I ran across a free Flash movie that accomplishes what we really wanted. Check it out in Orange & Blue.
All you have to do is embed the Flash movie into the page, [...]

College News RSS feed added

June 29th, 2005

I added an RSS feed for College News to the College Web site.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a web content syndication format. Our feed is based on version 0.92 of the standard. It is an increasingly popular method of incorporating headlines and links from one Web site on another, such as a portal page [...]

Where have I been?

June 29th, 2005

I haven’t lost steam with posting, I just haven’t been working on much that might be interesting to blog readers. I have been:

Working on a project where we are expanding the content of the Alumni of Distinction section of the college Web site.
Working on migrating several Web sites from older servers that still run Windows [...]

A Second Chance mini-site published

June 10th, 2005

I published a very-quickly-produced mini-site for the film A Second Chance this afternoon. It uses the templating concepts from mezzoblue that I mentioned recently. It also borrows some CSS techniques that I explored on some recent personal projects.

Simple Templating from mezzoblue

June 9th, 2005

Dave Shea of mezzoblue posted a really good article on page templating in php. I may try following this technique on a project in the near future.

Updated QuickTime movie example

June 9th, 2005

I took a few minutes this morning and updated my page which describes how to embed a QuickTime streaming movie within a Web page. Now instead of making you view source and figure it out, I actually show code and explain things.

Making an external link icon

June 3rd, 2005

I’ve been working this week (mostly) on new content that I’ll blog about when it is released, but didn’t want to let a week go by, even a short one, without a blog entry.
Have you noticed the little “external link” icons popping up all over the Web next to inline hyperlinks? I have. If you [...]