Monthly Archives: November 2010

Integrating jQuery Fancybox and Tooltips plugins

In the process of adding the lightbox plugin at fancybox.net to a client’s website (a children’s author/illustrator), it became necessary to integrate it with the jquery tooltip plugin that was already in place and in use on the site to create styled tooltip hovers on certain of the images there.
As the method of adding tooltips to the images conflicted with how the rel=”" attribute was used by the lightbox for grouping sets of images, this required a bit of alteration to the lightbox plugin. Continue reading

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The Gap Logo Back-Pedal

It would seem, Gap has decided to revert to original logo (left) after the new one was welcomed by nearly unanimous criticism [Advertising Age article http://bit.ly/aO4yny ]

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Open Letter to Godaddy

You need a good usability expert for your public facing website. The domain manager has improved greatly over the years (albeit somewhat slow). However, getting to the domain manager is a confusing and ever changing experience. Navigation should not be … Continue reading

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Apparently old search engines don’t die

Apparently old search engines don’t die, people just stop using them. Seeing that Cuil.com had gone offline after some of the good work they were doing, and seeing some of the things they are working on at Blekko http://bit.ly/cgDX5E makes … Continue reading

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