It’s been a few months in the making, but it’s finally arrived and it’s better than I ever could’ve imagined. I’m dubbing this v1.0 iteration of the site “Cadence”. There are a couple cool, dynamic things happening on the site right now thanks to a few Wordpress plugins and some of my own ingenuity:
- I have a variety of dynamic sidebars throughout the site that change depending on where you are
- Instant Twitter updates thanks to the brilliant Alex King
- A nifty Sideblog powered by Delicious
- Flickr integration, also in the sidebar
- AJAX-ified contact form
Not too shabby for a 1.0 release of the site. The portfolio isn’t up yet, but it’ll take me a while to get nice sampling of work together anyhow, so no worries there.
I didn’t want to go too crazy and overwhelm myself with needless code in this release, so in coming versions of the site you can look forward to the following:
- sIFR plugin for fancy headings (update: 01/09/09 – Currently using the @font-face attribute of CSS3 to handle this for all modern browsers)
- jQuery for slicker sidebar showing/hiding
- Embedded audio/video players
That’s all I have to say for the time being. Now that this thing is finally up I can jam pack it full of as much content as possible. Small sidenote: I haven’t tested it, but this site will undoubtedly look awful in IE6 (but I don’t care).
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