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 api being a big headache, but try to explain that to a client and all they hear is "I can't make it work." On the twitter side, things are a little less buggy, but the biggest issue is that no plugins will tweet scheduled ...

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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 now was the best time to do it. This site will be a wordpress site, responsive, and feature much more timely updates than their current site allows (including an Instagram feed and a blog). The ...

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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 Botanical Gardens Orchid Show and shot some obligatory flower photos, as well as a super up close and personal portrait of Edy. Shortly after, I brought the camera along on a trip up to Albany where I took some test video using my nephew, Noah, as the subject. In typical two-year-old ...

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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 developed this module with html, css and javascript/jQuery and I think it came out pretty damn well! I made use of a handy little inner-border css trick I read about here as well. This was truly a collaborative effort, as anything in a large institution must ...

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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 called "Portfolio" with several child categories (Design, Development, Photography). These child categories are pulled into the the portfolio page and the filter menu is built with the following code: <ul id="filters" class="option-set filter" ...

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