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Timeline plugin

31km — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:17:06 +0000

On my “hello, my name is Margaret” page, I just implemented the coolest plugin on WordPress, SimileTimeline. It shows all your posts in a scalable linear timeline. I’m still having fun customizing it.

Go to plugin page →

javascript “things”

31km — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:13:17 +0000

I find myself increasingly interested in user-intuitive and fun-to-use javascript “things”! I remember when I first started working in web, I had no clue what javascript was. It sounded really nerdy and scary (actually I still don’t know exactly what it is, hence i said javascript “things”… but at least I recognize it when I see it now). I really thought the direction would be about Flash everything sites. I’m glad it was just a phase!

Thank you, sites like AjaxRain for opening my eyes to different types of usages and opportunites.

!!!!!!!!!!

31km — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:10:39 +0000

This is a great idea!!!! http://www.kickstarter.com/

“Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers…”

I am planning to submit my Moments Like Today project to it and see where that goes. :)

Project – Shadows of New York

31km — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:46:22 +0000

Part 1 I started this project when I was travelling to New York for three days. The idea is to capture some of the shadows I noticed while I was there. I especially liked the shadows casted on the objects in the galleries.

Part 2 I was trying to find ways to visually present this project, and came across this full-window browser scalable j-query gallery. I cropped the photos at a ratio of 16:9 at 1000 pixels wide. If I only knew how to write javascript, I would try to add a preloader for each photo instead of one for the entire gallery. It gets a bit overwhelming when you have to load so many photos at once. I really liked the scalable and full-screen part though, so I’m keeping it! I will eventually make a simplified slow version of this where its just one simple page.

Shadows of New York

p.s. I also haven’t checked this in an IE browser so please don’t make fun of me if this doesn’t work in IE7 :]. pps. For personal projects, I am not designing for IE6 anymore.

Note to self about dear old IE6

31km — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:58:16 +0000

Must specify width and height when using PNG fix for IE6, or else images will look stretchy and sad. There are still many strange things to learn about this old friend here, unfortunately.