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Cycle Plugin Jquery

Friday July 04 2008

I’ve been playing around a little with the cycle plugin for JQuery. This is my first attempt at anything javascript. I’ve been reading JavaScript Development with DOM Scripting and Ajax, but it’s giving me headaches and I haven’t actually learned anything other than I really want to learn this. Details of my attempt are on this EE thread.

Essentially I’m trying to set up a random quote rotator on my teaching blog. The random quote has been running fine for 2 years, but now I want to be able to refresh the quote by clicking a link and not refreshing the page. it’s not necessary, just a learning exercise.

Sean inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Jul 4, 2008 at 04:27 PM
Javascript |

| tags: ee thread, javascript, jquery, |

Show us Your Mug

Expression Engine is expanding the showcase to have video testimonials. The first 50 people to submit a video 30-120 seconds long get a free coffee mug. I know it’s a small prize, but I do really like EE, and I love my coffee, so I’ve entered. I added a little watermark to my video which you can see below - might make a nice site badge - background is transparent.

I heart EE

Sean inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Jul 4, 2008 at 05:47 AM
Expression Engine |

| tags: expressionengine, coffee, |

Photoshop comp

Thursday July 03 2008

Today I did some more work on the comp for my client as it seems like my graphic designer has gone incommunicado. I did a lot of experimentation with photoshop and didn’t use any tutorials and ended up with something that I think has looks pretty good. The problem is that it doesn’t POP.

In any case it’s an early comp. If the client likes the direction it’s taking, then I’ll spend some more time polishing it up and trying to add some POP to it, without getting all flashy. Photoshop is a lot of fun, but it’s not like code where you can memorize most of it and it works for you. Photoshop requires a whole other level of skill and synthesis of knowledge. One day I’ll get there.

Sean inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Jul 3, 2008 at 07:26 PM
Photoshop |

| tags: photoshop, |

Disable=""

I must remember to use the disable parameter in weblog entries. it’s helpful for reducing queries and theoretically speeding up page load.


disable="categories|custom_fields|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"

for some reason this entry was messing up the tagging template. Hopefully adding more text will fix that.

Sean inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Jul 3, 2008 at 09:14 AM
code | Expression Engine |

| tags: expressionengine, code, remember this, |

Trailing Slash Problem

Wednesday July 02 2008

I started porting my HTML/CSS layout for the business site to Expression Engine and everything is going very smoothly for what I’ve done so far. The only thing that is running dynamically right now is the portfolio thumbs on the front page. Currently they read more links don’t go anywhere as I haven’t added the other templates yet - the rest of the site is still static.

However I did notice one problem and cannot seem to figure out how to resolve it. If you visit http://createsean.com/index.php the site loads correctly. However if you add a trailing slash http://createsean.com/index.php/ it loads up the template group for my default site on my EE install. Any ideas on how to resolve this?