sometimes the most simple looking sites are in fact the most complex.
i’m very pleased to have (mostly) completed the development for couchprojects.com, a site for a collections of books, video, research and installation work by Angie Waller, based on Angie’s original design and concept.
for easy backend administration we chose to work with Wordpress and while there were a ton of great functions built-in that made development save time, conceptually we were doing things that required a lot of original code (whose logic is still blowing my mind).
tag-based, transparent-category navigation with related tags that remember where you’re coming from, what you’ve clicked on, how you got there and what’s related to your personal click-trail…
developing this project was a lot of fun. check it out!
The fight to Save Antioch College continues… Here’s my unofficial and unapproved flyer(?)…
so it’s a new year and generally that means a new look for 36invisible.com websites and this year is no different.
not only have we upgraded the design and functionality of 36invisible sites (this news site/blog included), but we’ve also moved all of our domains over to our new home at svaha.
because of the move and because of insanely technological coding details i don’t want to go into yet, a couple of things on the main 36invisible site are still unfinished. the number one issue is, well… your browser’s back and reload buttons won’t work as expected (on the main site only) since i’ve wrapped the entire site in AJAX for navigational deliciousness. i’ll fix this as soon as possible.
also, if you experience any other problems with this site or the main site, please post them here and i’ll fix them as they come in. i’m guessing that some links are probably broken… thanks in advance for anything you find.
anyway, happy 2008 and stay tuned for more updates and news.
just launched another site i’m proud to have coded for a fantastic group of individuals (most of which i went to undergraduate school with).
Svaha LLC provides hosting, consulting and design services for artists, small businesses and non-profit community organizations.
once again i found myself using lots of AJAX and this time have found a new tool that i’m absolutely nuts about now: MODx, which is quite possibly the most incredible CMS/PHP framework for coders who like to get their hands dirty.
so if you’re looking for great web services or are just curious to see the new site, checkout: Svaha.com
just launched the new website for the Antioch College Alumni Association.
spent four years of my life there as an undergrad, met the greatest person ever there (stayed with/still with, and married her over a decade later) and it definitely was one of the most influential places that had the strongest impact on the person i am today.
there are enormous things going on right now with Antioch College (too many to list here) and a revolution may soon begin. one way or another, we’re going to take the College back from the greed that aims to close it.
i’m very proud to have been a part of creating this website. check it out.
Antiochians.org - Be Ashamed to Let it Die!
on another site that i’m helping to develop, i’ve integrated Carnegie Mellon University’s incredible reCaptcha script into PunBB (the forum software running on that site).
reCAPTCHA channels the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into correcting OCR mistakes for scanned books.
because the current release of PunBB is not plugin friendly, integrating reCaptcha isn’t a one step process, but with barely any effort it’s completely doable.
PunBB 1.2.15 was used.
Here’s how to do it:
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