January 26th, 2015
A couple of years ago I created a nice jQuery-powered random animation for a web design project I was working on.
I recently found some time to recover that work and I thought it could be easily customized for other projects, too. So I cleaned up the original code and I trasformed it into an easy-to-use jQuery plugin.
The effect principle is actually very easy to understand and customize: a full width table is created in the target container and its cells are randomically turned on and off at a given interval.
Go to the official jQuery.RandomBlinker page to see a working demo, read the full story, get usage instructions and download links!
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· Tags: freebies, javascript, jquery, web development
January 17th, 2015
Last week I came across this video on YouTube. OMG! I decided I had to do something to help those people.
Because you don’t know that, but “those people” could be the client of your next website. Or an important stakeholder in a digital project you will be asked to lead in your work.
Or, more probably, your user.
These 5 slides are for you, people, to help you understand how we live and work in the 21st century.
(Please read the final disclaimer before thinking I am an idiot.)
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January 6th, 2015
During this holiday season I found some time to release Wakizashi, my new WordPress theme designed with filmmakers and video producers in mind.
Wakizashi is a clean, simple and powerful video portfolio with the following features:
- Built-in Vimeo embedding
- Beautiful home page thumbnail grid
- 4 different stylesheets to choose from!
- 2 different templates for Pages (3-columns and 1-column)
- Contacts template with full-width Google Maps embed
- Good out-of-the-box SEO tagging and og:graph support
- Google Analytics integration and other easy-to-use custom options
» Read more about Wakizashi and take a complete look to its features.
Adding an item to your video portfolio will be as easy as creating a WordPress post: add title and description, upload a thumbnail image of your choice (yes, you won’t have to use random-selected still frames) and paste the Vimeo ID of your video. That’s all.
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Wakizashi is released for free download under the GNU License. Wakizashi’s source code is also available on GitHub.
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I consider myself a WordPress evangelist, but for a long time I hadn't found a reason to install that glorious content platform on my good old website. Now that shame has ended. In this blog I want to share some interesting stuff about topics I love, such as UX design, digital project management and anything else I'd like to write about.