I have just put online a new version of prettyPhoto, this version now supports titles.

As usual, if you have any comments/bugs feel free to leave a comment in the main prettyPhoto post.

Head to the project page to view the latests changes.

I’ve just put online the new version of prettyPhoto. This release include a bunch of fixes and improvement that makes it much, much better, it is recommend to update your current version if you are already using it.

Here’s a list of updates:

• New button design;
• Fixed a glitch on image resizing;
• The images bigger than the viewport are now resized to fit;
• The pictures now follow the scroll when the gallery is opened;
• CSS has been tweaked a bit.

To view a demo or download the latest version, go to: http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyPhoto

Feel free to leave your suggestions/comments!

The agency I’m working at has just launched it’s new website. It’s a full flash website with a full HTML equivalent for people without flash and to help SEO.

It’s our first attempt at making a flash website fully SEO friendly, which is pretty cool.

Since I don’t do any flash I wasn’t implied in the main site development, I have been in charge of the HTML version development.

To view the new site just go to: http://www.cloudraker.com
To view the new HTML version of the site go to: http://www.cloudraker.com?noflash=true

I’ve just finished prettyPhoto, a lightbox jQuery plugin.

You can find it here: http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyPhoto/

UPDATE: Please refer to this post for support/updates on prettyComments

Here’s a small jQuery plugin that allow textareas to strech as content is put in. If the content goes over the defined height of the textarea, the textarea will stretch.

So no need to more scroll up in that cramped space to take a look at what you wrote 10 lines before.

It’s really easy to use, just download the file pretty-comments.js and include it in the html page where you want to allow the comment box stretching. Then put that bit of code in that same page to include the script:

<script src=“the-path/js/pretty-comments.js” type=“text/javascript” charset=“utf-8″></script>

You can then play a bit with the options which are located at the top of the javascript file, you can define if you want to have it animated or not and the speed of the animation.

Then put that bit of code in the same page you have your comment box, you need to pass the comment box id as a parameter for it to work.

<script type=”text/javascript” charset=”utf-8″>
$(document).ready(function(){
prettyComments.init(’comment’);
});
</script>

That’s really all there’s to it, if you want a demo, just leave a comment, you’ll see the box stretch

Files: Un-compressed (3kb,options)
Packed (1kb, animated, no options)

Demo: Right in that page, just enter a lot of content in the comment box.

If you notice any bug, need any support, just leave a comment, I’ll do my best to help you!

Note: You also need the jQuery library in order to use this plugin

Update: Version: 1.1 relased! Now the textarea can shrink back to it’s original size when you delete content from it!

Yes it’s true, a blog post over at the ie blog state that the new IE8 passes the ACID 2 test.

For those who don’t know, ACID 2 is a test case designed by the Web Standards Project to identify web page rendering flaws in browsers and authoring tools.

Up until recently only Opera, Safari and Konqueror were successfully passing the ACID2 test. Firefox 3.0 should pass it too.

Good sign for the future!

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I’ve been in some situations where I need to support a company doing the back end on some templates I produced. The problem is that those companies often have little knowledge of web standards, XHTML/CSS and such, and my templates….well they’re standard based.

Got me to think about how recognized is a web integrator in the industry. Most companies don’t seem to recognize this as a full time job, some of them sees it as a programmer job, others sees it as a designer job. In a company where your specialty is developing back end you sure don’t care much about the front end. But it IS important. The whole user experience depends on how the information is presented to the user, how the website reacts and how the site “feels”.

What’s the point of having a whole flow where you define wire frames, use cases, technical specs of a website and provide HTML templates on which all you have to do is plug your code when in the end it’s in big part dumped cause of “technical difficulties”. Having this knowledge in house can save you tons of work, time and money. Not only that, but the overall product will probably be a whole lot better.

Because you’re behind the scene, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care about what’s happening up front!

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