The evolution of the TDWI homepage through redesign and progression. The focus of my update was to increase content visibility, give search engines more to chew on, and entice the audience with the breadth of our content and place content in context.
Some changes included:
- Expanded view and related sections grouping
- Membership call to action to promote membership
- Half-height banners to cross-promote additional TDWI subsidies
- Greater emphasis and focus on promoting events
- Calendar view to place the event in context of the month at a glance
- Promotion of RSS feed syndication
- Preview of the latest publication covers accompanying their listings
- Expand and collapsible accordion ui
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Who wouldn’t want to play a game where this is your character, a lovable “mustachio” miner …
This is your world …
And this is a portal to the adventure beneath …
These are just a few previews for a game I have been working on.
Stay tuned for more.
Starting in 2011 at the Orlando World Conference I created a “live” dashboard to showcase photos, videos and tweets during the conference as an experiment to both engage our attendees and promote to non-attendees what they were missing by not attending. With little to no promotion, the experimental dashboard showed promise with lively interaction and use of our newly coined hashtag #tdwi. Continue reading TDWI Live Dashboard »
In celebration of Pi Day …
Sometimes the detail is lost when limited to set dimensions. Here are your favorite pi(e) from the Pi Cafe of the School Vandals MSTI level.
CSS styling and ui changes to improve the search functionality and appearance.
Before:
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CornerStorkBakery.com is a new startup for diaper cakes and goodies founded by my sister Nicole Boyda-McClintock. I was asked to create a business card and logo to help jumpstart promotion for her new business.
Below is the first and second quarter TDWI “Ten Mistakes To Avoid” publications that point out mistakes and how to avoid them when working with various topics of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. My contributions included layout of the publications, and creation of the cover images.
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Quarterly Best Practices in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Below is the third quarter that focused on Self-Service Business Intelligence. The authors of these reports add a section of acknowledgments that includes recognition of my contributions in converting their report into a publication layout, recreation of figures and report design including cover image.
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Between the years 2002-2005 I dabbled more frequently in flash than I have in the past 6 years combined. Going through my hard drive I have rediscovered a few gems, some are only in the concept phase but I thought it would be fun to share some of these early works, many of which nobody has ever seen besides myself. Enjoy!
Hint: Click the crank to turn, continue clicking until …
When attempting to align form input and button elements you can get a hodgepodge of results across browsers. Here is a trick to get things aligned:
input, button {
vertical-align: middle;
}
You can also restyle the borders, margin and padding to make completely customized appearance of fields and buttons. Just remember, button can be styled across all browsers to appear the same while an input of submit type cannot and will be subject to each browsers gui, most noticeably is Apple’s Safari.
@geekynat Existence is really hard sometimes.
@geekynat Good morning is such an empty sentiment.
Below you will find photos of the new 2011 Marketing Programs Brochure I was responsible for creating:
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Congratulations to my little brother Mark and his family.
To celebrate marrying the love of his life Ashlee, they are hosting a reception on October 30th, 2010 to share their happiness with friends and family.
I was asked to help fulfill their desire to make the information about the reception available online, so I went to work creating “til death” reception pages.
Now that they are live, I just wanted to share them with you and invite you to pass along your congratulations to the happy couple.
Mark & Ashlee Boyda’s Reception
So you are the Admin of a Facebook Group and an Admin of a Facebook Event and you would like to merge the two so the Group is the Host of your Event? Sounds simple, but is it?
According to Facebook logic it is of grave importance which is created first, and if you made the event first you’re out of luck.
I wonder if they also think the Chicken came before the Egg?
Facebook FAQ erroneously suggests:
In order for an event to appear in the Events section of a group’s page, you need to set the group as host of the event from the Edit Event page. In order to do this, you will need to be the admin of both the group and the event.
When you go to edit the event, you’ll find there isn’t a place to select your group as the host. Now what? … Facebook’s Blackhole Customer Service? Good Luck.
The answer is so simple you may kick yourself for not trying it sooner.
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The most common use of this technique is to replace an h1 title of a page with a graphical header. This is done so the markup is still an h1 tag with text and it is only visually changed to an image with css. By maintaining the structured text improves SEO and makes for a nice text only print option. Another common use is to turn a regular text hyperlink into a graphical button complete with mouseover effects without affecting the code behind the link itself.
h1 {
width: 760px;
height: 150px;
text-indent: -9999px;
overflow: hidden;
background: transparent url(header.jpg) top left no-repeat;
}
The text indent effectively overflows the text outside the visible range, and overflow hidden ensures when you select the h1 you don’t get the selection trail that extends to the hidden text.
Now if you want you can also do the same thing but instead of setting the background, width and height on the h1 itself, setting it on a hyperlink inside the h1 allows the background image to become a link. This is also how you would go about making a hyperlink into a graphic button.
