I have always been annoyed by how not-bold the standard browser-safe system fonts are at smaller font sizes. And even now, calling in a bolder typeface using @font-face is not always a viable option (like a project I’m working on right now). I need heavier type than Verdana bold, and it needs an outline to make it stand out against its background, it can’t have any extra markup, and it has to be cross browser compatible. Continue reading
Crys Odenkirk
jQuery/CSS3 gallery update
Well, I saw an interesting demo of a draggable css3/jquery-based gallery a couple weeks ago and I’ve been playing with it to see if it was possible to integrate it with wordpress. I’m in the process of writing a tutorial about how to add it to your own wordpress site, but I noticed today that it’s throwing a javascript error in IE (I know, errors in IE, what a shocker). I’ll figure that out and get some decent graphics to replace the plain white border that’s there now, and then you can look for a new tutorial on how to implement it on any wordpress site.
Usability seminar…
Just gave a seminar on usability for non-engineers. It seemed to go over well. I can’t port it to the site, unfortunately, due to the same restrictive security policies that cover everything else I’m doing these days, but I’m considering a book or maybe just a series of posts: Usability for Business People.
Mt. Mary Event Registration
Allow event registration online
Mt. Mary needed an event registration form that could both send them information via email and post over to a credit card vendor at the same time. It also needed to be easy to update but had no database or admin system to work through. So I used a php array to allow the client easy access to update the events without the need for them to learn html or javascript. This form includes the ability to add/delete guests and a running subtotal, as well as in-place validations via jquery which are then revalidated via php in case the user has javascript off.
design
So why’s my site so bare and where’d the old design go? Well, I’m working on the underlying css framework so I took everything else off. Should be like this for a few weeks then I’ve got a new style for the new year.