Text Rolling My Own Ad Platform February 29, 2012
Over the last few months, I’ve been working on a complete overhaul of our different websites in my division at UofL. Part of the design I landed on in the fall, incorporated an internal ad spot, where we could either advertise programs and offerings, or cross-sell them. I knew that I wanted to make this platform robust, but easy to use since people managing ads aren’t web developers. I landed on a solution that uses PHP/MySQL on an different server and JavaScript to serve ad.
Text Updating a Menu Based on Page Location July 27, 2011 / 2 notes
There are plenty of sites that have sectioned pages which use an anchored link menu system to jump to each section. If you look back at my smooth anchor post, you can easily adapt that to make the jump behave a little bit nicer. But how about updating the menu so the user is reminded what section they’re on as they scroll down the page? It’s just a few lines of JavaScript+jQuery and you’ll be updating your menu on-the-fly. Let’s get started.
Text setVersion() - Automate Your Caching Process April 25, 2011 / 1 note
Caching your assets is a great and easy way to speed up your site’s load times. However, it can be time consuming to rename files and messy to keep several versions of files on your server. A lot of sites have used query strings, styles.css?v=1, to accomplish this cache. I believe it’s better to use a full, versioned filename like styles.1.css, so that the user’s browsers pulls a distinct file. It’s a fairly simple process and I’ll show you how to automate the numbering.
Text An Archive April 11, 2011
It’s always nice to look back. A few weeks ago, I stopped and took the time to remind myself of some old websites I’ve done that have helped me get to where I am today. Then I thought I might as well share some old things. Here’s a list of projects that didn’t make it or sites that have been replaced, ordered by their last edit.
For an updated list, I’ve setup an archive.
