goat lucky

May 7th, 2013

the whole screaming goat thing is weird…

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responsive web design: tools of the trade

April 30th, 2013

these are the things that i MUST HAVE in order to efficiently work on a responsive web design project

text editor

editplus

i use editplus. use whatever you want. who am i to say “nay” to dreamweaver…

calculator

calc

absolute must. all those trailing digits? use them. let the browser decide where to cut the number off!

browser

ffox

firefox. yes, there are a lot of people who have jumped ship and solely use chrome, especially for development, but the Responsive Design View feature in Firefox is huge for me. To activate, view a site in Firefox and then hit Ctrl+Shift+M to activate.  i prefer that to actually resizing the overall browser window.

measurement

coolruler

for those times you need to do a sanity check with your calculations, use cool ruler. it’s an on-screen ruler to make sure the percentage you used for padding actually equals 20px

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san diego, you’s beautiful

April 24th, 2013

WELCOME HOME TIMELAPSE from Michael Shainblum on Vimeo.

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it’s glorious

March 26th, 2013

the strange things people search for on Google and stumble on my site…

image

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even more responsive-ier

March 26th, 2013

finally took care of a nagging part of my site… the top slideshow. it wasn’t responsive before and now it is

it’s based off the responsive slider plugin. i had to make a minor change to it so it would show six slides per page load, choosing randomly from the library of slides. by default, it would show x amount of slides, where x is set in the settings > reading section (“Blog pages show at most”)

default

$slides = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'slides', 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'menu_order' ) );

updated

$slides = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'slides', 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'rand', 'posts_per_page' => 6 ) );

i actually didn’t expect the 'orderby' => 'rand' part to do what it did (choose randomly from the library of slides), but i’m pretty happy with it. this way, i can upload as many slides and not have to worry about ordering them in any special way

'posts_per_page' => 6 is what controls the amount of slides that are shown in the slideshow

yes, i’m aware that this will be killed if i update the plugin…

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