Photo Presentation & Image Mapping
Any organization of period reenacting has special interest in photographs, therefore, creating an easy way to organize, access, and copy them is very important. Current photographs may be downloaded...
View ArticleBlogging, but not necessarily!
A scroll bar can be used to make announcements and point out new additions and changes to the website, but it does not allow for comments and queries. By introducing a WordPress blog to a site multiple...
View ArticleTiled Background & Page Width
Tiling a page presents an interesting background, especially with larger monitors. You can take a small image and adjust for color, brightness, and opacity, and tile it as a background image. Multiple...
View ArticleMulti-Column Page
All three pages shown on the left are examples of three column pages, left, right, and content. They are set up with width in percentage of wrapper size, originally meant to be responsive. That changed...
View ArticleLinking in New Windows, Z-Index, Reference
This page contains a library of printed newsletters dating back to 2004. They were all scanned and reduced in size to allow a visual identity as well as the title. The z-index code presents the...
View ArticleUpdating Pages as Information Changes, Audio Files
When establishing a calendar page, the intent should be to update it frequently with new information, close out old events and perhaps link to reviews, photos, or video of the event. A static page...
View ArticleMobile
How many times have you gone to a site on your smartphone and received the desktop site where you have to pinch and enlarge and try to navigate a drop menu. Or your page doesn’t change until you...
View ArticleConverting Endless Scrolling Pages to Page Navigation
The history pages of the 116th PA site could scroll on and on, but a more reasonable, user friendly approach is to subdivide the page into multiple pages that the viewport can support without...
View ArticleNavigation
After reading Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think.” I decided that I needed to make further changes to the navigation on 116thpa.com. Previously, most navigation was centered around the Home page. The...
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