Posts Tagged ‘HTML’
Greener Journeys site August 4th, 2010
www.greener-journeys.com
A massive gap between posts there for which I apologise. It has been a busy couple of months for me though. At the end of June i said a tearful farewell to my colleagues at Anywhichway and moved onto pastures new. As of July i have taken up the post of Contracting Developer at The Crocodile, but more about them later. This post is about my final project at Anywhichway (which actually went live shortly after I left – compounding the delay on this post).
Greener Journeys is a campaign website aimed at encouraging people to get out of their cars and onto buses and coaches. The site contains loads of information on the cause, who’s involved in it and how they’re going about achieving their goals.
The site is built in Expression Engine – version 1.6 as sadly version 2 had not come out of beta when we started development. The site is fairly straight forward, content wise, and uses mostly static page types. There is, however, a news and events section, both of which automatically archive content, and a password protected ‘user resources’ area with downloadable goodies. Site pages also display related pages and documents on the site and the home page displays the latest news stories.
This is a really nice looking site (designed by the creatives at AWW of course) and was a great project to end on. See you around guys, i’ll miss you…
Flash Notice Maker May 17th, 2010
Evening all – since it’s been a while since i posted (busy busy – Mayday Network Phase II in full swing) – I thought i’d have a trawl through the archives and see what I could find. Here’s what I came up with, a Flash notice maker I made for a client a few months ago (quickly re-branded 
).
This one’s AS3 and can be used to create notices while maintaining the corporate format. Put in your title and body copy (the text will resize to fit), hit print and out of your printer will pop a beautifully formatted notice, corporate font and colours intact, in a handy, print friendly A4. It also adds a little ‘created on…’ tag to try and avoid out of date notices floating about everywhere.
Here’s the file – usual rules apply – credit me if you’re feeling generous. And if you feel like improving it (I’ll hold my hands up – the text resize can be a little fiddly) do so and send me the file.
Viral revolution or webvomit? April 15th, 2010
Recently I’ve been coming across sites that utilise such hideous design and nightmarish HTML that i’ve felt compelled to bring them to the attention of a wider audience and, in many cases, that’s exactly what i’ve done.
Recently as I prepared to Tweet this gem – it occured to me that perhaps lurking behind this terrifyingly poorly executed facade is in fact an ingenious and fresh viral marketing idea. After all it only takes one smug, superior media type (i.e. me) to stumble across it and publish the link on some social network somewhere and bingo – instant traffic.
Of course there’s a danger, as in this instance, that you take the concept too far and all your content is hidden behind an impossible to navigate front end awash with random, blindingly garish links. Handled in the right way, however, this could be rather effective. Imagine a website which on first glance is pure HTML abortion, hideous enough to get an instant mention on media boards across the web, and yet on closer inspection incorporates a surprisingly intuitive navigation which in turn leads to well designed and structured content. Food for thought my friends, perhaps we are witnessing the birth of a new viral phenomenon – one that will eventually result in a mass turnaround in the way we design and build websites. Retro web design – God forbid!
Anyway, sorry for the almost actual blog like nature of this post. Back to standard postings next time. In the meantime here’s another one for you to point and laugh at. Look at his ponytail – LOL!
Javascript forms – textarea word count April 5th, 2010
Happy Easter loyal readers (or possibly reader). Here’s a nice simple piece of JavaScript that counts down the number of words remaining in a restricted text field as you type. When you hit your limit and the counter hits zero you will no longer be able to type any words untill you delete some. There is no restriction here on characters and words are defined by spaces only. The example below shows it in action.
Textfield is limited to 50 words.
words remaining: 50
File’s attached as usual here – so download them, use them and together we can make HTML forms fun! (as long as you don’t have JavaScript disabled…)
British Soap Awards website March 2nd, 2010
www.britishsoapawards.tv
This week the British Soap Awards website 2010 website went live – built by me and designed by the good folk at Anywhichway! The site is built using the CodeIgniter framework and includes a basic vote authentication function and a reporting back end utilising the PHPExcel plugin. The voting aesthetics are coded in JavaScript.
Traffic on the site is extremely heavy and as of this post has attracted more than 9000 unique voters (in two days). With more than quarter of a million expected by the end of voting it’s, with the exception of the Orange Intranet (which doesn’t count), my highest profile and most visited work so far.
Get on there and vote people and make me look good.
