Check out the jobs page on the AirBNB web site. There's a multilayer vertical scroll effect emulating depth which I have never seen before. It's visually pretty rocking-cool. I wonder where else it's being used, if anywhere -- I don't recall seeing it elsewhere. Very cool!
A better slideshow for Image Conscious
Yesterday I rewrote the code for the slide show / carousel on my site at Image Conscious. Up till now I've had a bit of a process for updating the content on the slide show, which frankly was seriously making it hard to promptly deliver changes. It involved gathering product shots, building an
Photoshop Workshop
It's that time again. Teaching my longtime Beginning Photoshop workshop the next two Saturdays at Kala Art Institute -- which has many more interesting classes besides.
XSS attempt = captcha
Seems that a hacker finally had a go at the silentfilm.org press accreditation form, about 100 attempts in a minute or so. Hopefully some basic newline character filtering stymied them, and the new recaptcha widget will slow future attempts.
lockout
That was weird. Password rejected, had to backdoor my wp installation. Does that happen a lot?
stylin’
Stage one wp redesign, thematic child theme version. Still in progress, and progressing only in fits, starts.
More Code Examples
Added a new bit of code play to my examples page. New jQuery slideshow with a better cross-fade, using images this time instead of text. Also changed indicator dots in the second example to auto-populate based on the number of slides. Soon I'll have to split examples into multiple pages.
Color Thief
Cool-looking script to analyze images by color palette -- might come in handy for Image Conscious. See Color Thief.