1. Rage Avatars WordPress Plugin

    jamie3d.com with the Rage Avatars enabled

    At my day job I write WordPress plugins all the time. We love that platform. Writing a plugin for me is typically an exercise of utility, so when I decided to create my first “Jamie” plugin I wanted it to be almost pointless. Since Humor is one of my loves in life, I decided to create a WordPress plugin based around (more…)

  2. The Hello Bar Shopify App

    Deploy Your Bar

    I’ve recently completed development on my first Shopify App! The app is for Hello Bar, one of our products at digital-telepathy where I work. Dealing with APIs is often tricky but I have to say that the Shopify API was really a joy to work with. They’ve got a well documented and far reaching API.

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  3. New Design/Theme

    I’m studying up on responsive design and decided to design an exceedingly simple but functional theme for my site.

    What you’re seeing right now is just the base theme that I will customize further once I’m happy with the framework.

    Try resizing your window or viewing this site on an iPad. You’ll notice that the navigation changes, the sidebar becomes the footer and the prev/next posts buttons become sticky and stay with you when you scroll.

    Update:
    I’ve removed the sticky prev/next buttons as they don’t play very well with the Android browsers… Booooo!

  4. Champion Sound Checkout Process

    Here are two simple videos of the Champion Sound checkout process. I worked on several version of this site with my co-worker Matt Lackey at digital-telepathy. The “cart” logic was a focal point as the purchasing of credits was awkward. in the videos you’ll see a landing page and an upgrade page. The landing page was presented to users who were not logged in, while the upgrade page was for authenticated users. (more…)

  5. Hello Bar Stats

    Hello Bar Stats Date Range Selection

    I recently worked on adding some nifty date range selection to the stats system on Hello Bar. (more…)

  6. Champion Sound Home Page Slider

    Champion Sound Homepage

    The Champion Sound homepage, designed by Matt Lackey and built by myself for digital-telepathy is a mass of overlapping gradients and transparent PNGs. The layout was a challenge for me to build, but once it was worked out the rest was easy. This page incorporates many elements including XML parsing & caching of feeds, a SlideDeck like Slider and JavaScript (Canvas) based fonts.

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