Posted by
Steven Garrity on
Thursday, November 20, 2003 -
After some good feedback from our Flash Photo Cropping tool and a few requests for access to our older Java tool, we've finally put together an updated version of the crop code that includes the Java applet code.
I’ve set up another live demo of the Java version, and the source code (zip file) is also available. (contains both Flash and Java versions)
Posted by
Steven Garrity on
Thursday, October 23, 2003 -
Posted by
Steven Garrity on
Monday, October 6, 2003 -
We spend a lot of time at work. For most of us, our work either is also our hobby. So, it is important that we have a good and comfortable place to work. Our previous office was flexible and affordable. The landlord was very lenient with our frequent requests for more or less space, or for permission to run new wiring, or tear down some walls.
However, there were some things that we didn’t like about our office. Most of the working spaces didn’t have any natural light (probably our biggest complaint) and it was just getting too small for us. We weren’t too big on the location, with Wal-Mart encroaching on one side and a Kia dealership (complete with a two-story-tall inflatable godzilla), though parking was never a problem.
Now, after four years of silverorange (and a few more years of varied experience before that), we have our own building. We searched high and low, looking at buildings of all shapes and sizes before settling on a beautiful three-story Victorian house in the downtown area.
Why this place?
- Lots of room. All three floors are nicely finished, making plenty of room for us now and enough breathing room for the long run.
- Light, light, light. There are no rooms without windows – most have two. All of our workspaces now have nice natural lighting (with venecian blinds, in case you like to play your computer games in the dark).
- It’s downtown. Several of us live within walking distance (myself included) and we’ve been enjoying the culinary delights of the downtown of Charlottetown all along. Now several of our favourite restaurants are on our block.
- Most importantly, it feels like home. Since many of us spend much more time at our workplace than we do in our homes, we want a place that feels comfortable – that we can look forward to coming to each morning – where you can relax and read, or play some games. The fact that the new building is an old Victorian house goes a long way making it feel more like a great place to spend your days than just “work”.
We’re proud and excited about our new place. If you are in the neighbourhood (we’re at 84 Fitzroy St. in Charlottetown), stop by and say hello.
Posted by
Daniel Burka on
Tuesday, September 16, 2003 -
Please note there is
an updated post about these tabs with a major code update.
I was recently designing the interface for a site that called for tab navigation and where the users were limited to a small in-house group. Partly because of the limited audience, and also because of the inherent advantages, we chose to code entirely in CSS.
I'd seen some really great examples of unordered lists turned into tabs (such as Adam Kalsey's) and figured I'd give it a go. However, I wanted to avoid absolute positioning of the tabs so there could be flexible height objects above the tabs and also so the text-size could increase and decrease nicely. Anyhow, this is what I came up with. The subtle hover effect was a nice bonus and adds a tactile quality to the tabs. Feel free to use these or modify them for your own project (download a ZIP). If you improve on them, I'd appreciate a copy by email.
This has been tested in: (Windows: IE5, IE6, Mozilla) and (Mac: IE, Mozilla, Safari has bugs)
Posted by
Steven Garrity on
Sunday, September 14, 2003Some of us from silverorange will be zapping our collective PRAM next month at the first ever Zap Your PRAM Conference. Don’t get too caught up on the name (read the explanation).
It’s a small conference for people interested in design, technology, and weblogs to talk about those things and others. You can find out all the details at ZapYourPRAM.org.
silverorange just launched the new site for one of our favorite bands, Sloan. The site integrates the new PhotoGallery 2.0 for both the front end and the backend. The new system demonstrates how the new gallery differs from the fixed layouts of old galleries.
A recent silverorange project had us cleaning up years of archived HTML pages to be more accessible and XHTML compliant. Cleaning up what was already there was time consuming, but easy enough. The more important task is making sure things stay accessible and valid. As the client will be continuing to manage the site and create new content, we’ve prepared a style guide to help those producing new pages and editing the current pages.
The guide covers the basics of web content creation, including basic XHTML/CSS guidelines, validation, writing guidelines, and consistency.
As the concepts are likely to be common to a lot of websites, we’re making the style guide available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Feel free to use this with your clients. We would also welcome any comments or improvements.
Web Style Guide
Thanks to the New York Public Library’s online style guide for reference and inspiration.
