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Expression Engine Addon: Conditional TrunchHTML
I've been working on an Expression Engine site recently where I needed to truncate some HTML to fit within a certain sized space.
I've done similar truncations tasks before, right here on the SuperGeekery home page, with Oliver Heine's handy TruncHTML. I use it in combination with my own SuperGeekery Tagstripper to selectively strip out some of the HTML tags. (On a side note, it looks like Hacksaw has now combined these functions to some extent... + read on
Auto Print an HTML Page
I recently worked on a project for a client who wanted to allow a user to view and print a number of recipes directly from a Flash banner. There were all the other ways of interacting with the recipes as well, like emailing, sharing on Facebook, and sharing on Twitter. (I don't go into those other thing in this post, but you can find me talking about how to do things like that elsewhere on SuperGeekery.)
Additionally, the client wanted these... + read on
Untangling MX: Setting up DNS records for a web site with different mail server.
I recently had to set up an MX record for a client and although I’ve set them up before, it suddenly made sense to me in a way that it hadn’t before. Perhaps my story will help someone else have a similar epiphany.
Basic name server set up.
My client had their site and their mail all handled by the same serving company. This meant their name server records were basic. There were 3 entries and that was it. All traffic to their domain used the... + read on
Setting Facebook Status with Flash (The Hard Way)
You may have already checked my post Setting Facebook Status with Flash (The Easy Way). As the name implies, that’s the easy way to prompt a user to update their status. That version basically calls a special Facebook URL from Flash that prompt a user with suggested text in the status window that they can edit before they post. That method is useful for many situations. It's a lightweight and very simple to code.
But why do things the easy... + read on
How to change your CSS styles based on the day of the week with Expression Engine
This site’s color scheme changes every day of the week thanks to the design’s flexibility. (Thanks, Monika!) For example, if you’re seeing this on a Thursday, the whole site is orange. If you come back 7 days in a row to see all the pretty colors, you’ll make my Google Analytics giddy as a schoolgirl.
How can you do the same thing with your Expression Engine site? Well, there many ways, but I’ll tell you about 2 of them that I used in... + read on
Where there’s a will, there’s a dial. A dial component for Flash.
For a recent Flash project at JMX2, I needed to have a dial for a user to turn and it would effect affect how many particles were generated by a particle generator.
There wasn't a dial component in the standard Flash IDE, so I looked around online and although there seemed to be a couple Flex versions, I didn't find a Flash version. I needed to make one myself. A dial seems so simple but there's more going on there than you might guess. It... + read on
How to make a mobile version of your site with Expression Engine 2.
If you visit http://m.supergeekery.com, you will see a very simple version of this site. It’s not a full fledged version of this site, but it served as an experimental exercise for what I wanted to try. Basically, I wanted to have a mobile-friendly version of my site without needing to write content in 2 different entries in my Expression Engine installation. (I don’t go into the actual HTML that used to code the mobile version here, but I used... + read on
Setting Facebook Status with Flash (The Easy Way)
Update: As of June 8, 2011, it appears Facebook has killed this functionality. Adina posted a comment below with a link to Facebook's Feed dialog documentation: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/feed/. It's got everything you need to do this there. I'll eventually update this post to reflect these docs. Update #2: As of July 5, 2011, it appears the method I talked about in this post is working again. Just as Facebook killed... + read on
Setting Twitter Status with Flash
At JMX2 we recently had a Flash banner campaign that had what looked like a pretty typical feature to implement. Our client wanted a small share button for Facebook and Twitter.
For most things in life there's an easy way, and there's a hard way. Luckily, when it comes to Twitter, there's an easy way and it worked perfectly for what we needed to do. You like easy? Me too, that’s what we’re going to tackle today.
The Easy Tweet from... + read on
iPad Review: Making fonts with iFontMaker
What do you think of my typeface? I named it SG Funny Face. I made it on my iPad and I want to give you a quick review of the iPad application I used to make it. Before I start, I also wanted to give you a copy of the font. Click here to visit the SG Funny Face page and download your own copy. It's free and you can use it however you want.
The font creation app is called iFontMaker by The 2TTF. (Visit The 2TTf site or the application's page on... + read on