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Anyone who has developed for wordpress will tell you – setting up auto publishing for Facebook and Twitter is not fun. Sure, there are plenty of plugins available to do this for you. Some are even pretty great – like Simple Facebook Connect, which puts in all the fun header code that makes Facebook happy, as well as a slew of other features. But there are still annoying issues with users losing authentication, forgetting to login to Facebook to connect to the app, posts simply not showing up because of video embeds, etc. Granted, a lot of this stems from Facebook’s…
What a stupid post title. But, despite my lack of creativity in branding this post, April has been productive. So here is a recap of some of the more interesting items that hit (or have been started) this past month. Some new Parsons projects went live, a fun responsive page build for Atlantic Records went up, and the new design for the Dead Presidents Lounge was approved. (Visit post page for screenshots of everything mentioned). Dead Presidents Lounge Website Design Deadpreztattoo.com is overdo for a facelift and with some pretty exciting PR for them on the horizon, we figured…
While I wouldn’t call myself a professional photographer by any stretch of the imagination, I do enjoy taking the odd shot and prefer to have the right gear for the job. So with some extra cash from some recent jobs, I picked up a Canon T3i, a 50 mm f/1.4 lens and for extra kicks a MoneyMaker camera harness from HoldFast. I couldn’t be happier with the lens and the camera. I was absolutely blown away with the first shots I took. So I decided to take the gear out for some test runs. I went out to the NY…
I was joking with a friend the other day about how, since I started working as a Web Producer for The New School, none of the more interesting work I have done has seen the light of day yet. Sure, there are all sorts of scripts and behind the scenes things I have done that are live, but you know what I mean. Well I can no longer say that! This past week, the new homepage for The New School for Public Engagement went live, and it includes a fun little module that highlights the various programs available within the school. I…
If you’ve taken a look at the portfolio section of this site, you’ll notice I am using the Isotope jQuery plugin created by David DeSandro. I’ve been using this for a new section of the Parsons website that should be going live soon and figured it would work great for my site. My main concern was not wanting to have to mess with the front end every time I want to update, so I started thinking how I could use WordPress to power Isotope. It turned out to be a lot easier than I had anticipated. I created a category…
Yes, this is another “My First Responsive Website” blog post. I know there are a great many such posts scattered throughout the internet, but dammit, I am excited about this damn site, so I am going to post my own damn post about it. Dammit. I love responsive design. Then entire concept of making a site device agnostic and future-proof (to a certain extent) appeals to the part of me that would rather buy bulk canned food than repeatedly go to the supermarket: I hate doing things over and over. Which, unfortunately, is the nature of web design/development. So building…
Mr. Doug Nash, one of my best buddies, is getting married. It is my great honor to have been asked to be one of his groomsmen and as part of my groomsmanly duties, this past weekend I helped in the process of finding him some swanky duds for the big day. This was a particular challenge when you consider that he doesn’t own a single suit, let along worn one in the past decade or so. All in all though, I believe it was a success. Despite my pushing for top hats and tails, we found his something that looks…
The Herzog Law Group website has launched! Still a few small tweaks to be made, but we wanted to make sure the new site was live in time for 2012. This was a great project in that it gave me a great deal of content and presented challenges to overcome, which in turn expanded my knowledge of wordpress development greatly.
