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:
Read the rest of this entry »
slowly/steadily adding media clips to the main site.
right now there’s a short montage and the trailer for red letters, but there’s much, much more i’ll be uploading in the near future so stay tuned.
the biggest hurdle is breaking down a previously cut reel from dvd— with its own flow and style for that format—into more digestible web-ready units. it’s refreshing to be going back over these films again but also very time consuming.
enjoy: showreel
ps. codewise, i’m displaying the content with a lightbox style effect via javascript, and while all of the code and everything i’m doing is standards complient, i’ve yet to test it on a windows machine.
so… if someone on a windows machine could let me know if you’re experiecing any quirks loading or watching the video, i’d much appreciate it. quicktime 7+ and javascript enabled are required. the content should load in an overlay of the page and not open up a new window or take you away from the current page.
just finished launching a new website for my second home: RONIN ATHLETICS—an incredible mixed martial arts gym in nyc. some design specs can be found on the design page.
as you can see, i’ve been integrating the main 36invisible.com site here. slowly but steadily. once fully integrated, this wp-based site will take over the main domain.
i’m all about simplicity and minimalism lately and i have no idea why.
so i’ve finally gotten around to upgrading wordpress and while i was at it, i went ahead and created a new theme.
destroyed_minimal is a clean, two-column theme and (when selected) uses a script i wrote to overlay the title headlines with on-the-fly generated (and/or from cache) headline PNGs in a specified font of [my] choosing. also added was a print stylesheet that will hide the image headlines when printing.
i haven’t tested this on a non-Mac yet, but everything validates ok. however, if you’re experiencing problems with this site, getting errors, the image headlines aren’t fully covering the text headlines, or terribly slow load-times, please let me know.
hope you enjoy it.
update: i added a stylesheet switcher (to the sidebar) that will allow you to choose between destroyed or minimal. it works via Ajax, requires no page reload, will function with or without javascript enabled, and will also give your browser a cookie to remember your preferred style for your future visits. however, it’s a little slower than my javascript-only version and even if you’ve chosen minimal, the images are still loaded in the background. i’ll improve these annoyances when i get some time.
update (1.13.2008): none of this applies any more since the 2008 redesign.
so i’ve done some upgrading here and i think i’ve caught all possible problems, but let me know if you experience any strange behavior or otherwise.
