I recently launched a site for Winston Riley, a New Orleans based writer, producer and director of documentary films. The site is a simple clean large format site with embedded Flash YouTube and jQuery LightBox in the gallery section.
Please visit his site and browse his gallery or still and watch the clip from his documentary: Walter Anderson: Realizations of an Artist.
jQuery’s own set of UI components for their javascript framework. Mouse Effects, Widgets, and Effects downloadable and themeable for creating highly interactive and engaging web applications. Learn more about jQuery UI.
New release of jQuery is finally out. They can rebuild it. They can make it stronger, lighter, faster. Click here for full documentation release notes. Notably jQuery now supports css color fades for extra double fresh goodness! Also added, %/em animation, relative position animation, and simultaneous and extensible animations. The list of updates to jQuery 1.2 goes on: selectors, attributes, traversing, manipulation, css, ajax, effects, and events!
Please take the time to peruse my freshly amended resumé. I believe you will find it more than satisfactory.
Thank you,
— Mgmt.
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2 of the most useful internet readymades (webbymades?); jQuery and LightBox. jQuery is one of the more prominent javascript frameworks, and now even faster than before. LightBox is a javascript and css web application for pop ups and galleries; currently being used in a previous iteration on my site.
I’m very glad to see that people are moving towards real progress in the area of dynamic CSS with variables and globals. Moonfall is making a move in the right direction. It’s not difficult to set up CGI or Lua, and the idea of variables in CSS holds exciting prospects.
LightWindow v2.0, the “Ultimate light-’whatever’.” Unfortunately the downfall of this killer popUp replacement is that it’s run with Prototype and Scriptalicious. If someone could port this over to the smaller, faster jQuery I would be much more apt to suggest/adopt its use.
Not only is the compressed jQuery only 20k compressed now it’s running at 800% faster than previous incarnations of this fantabulous Javascript framework. It’s like a carb free energy drink! What’s not to love?!
When your done checking that to download your own copy, run over here to Interface elements for jQuery. Now this is something that doesn’t suck. Some more than fantastic to enrich your web experience.
I have recently decided to expand my work experience and am considering job offers both full time and freelance. I am highly proficient in CSS 1.x, 2.x, 3; XHTML transitional, strict; XML and SEO. I have several Addy recognitions for my contribution to the internet in web. My knowledge base is firmly ruited in creative design aesthetics, standards compliance, device independence, interface and navigation, interaction design, and user experience.
If you or anyone you know is in need of design, programming, or flash work, please review my resume and my portfolio, and pass my information along.
Would Web 2.0 just die already? Do all buttons need to be shiny? Is there a need for glossy content? What happend to best practices, semanitc code, and usability?
Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said. Source
People will come to your site and appreciate your product and your design if you respect them and give them what they are looking for in an easy to use package. There is no need to distract them with beveled, embossed, and glossed buttons. If your content is informative and well layed out, and you have a clear and concise navigation, you have already won. When you use design to suppliment your content your failing at the prime directive. Content is king and your design should compliment it.
Please step away from the saturated gradient and liquid mirror effect and the plactic wrap filter. We can work this out, you and I. Your mother loves you very much. Please put down the Web 2.0.
