Laurei: Showcase

Brisbane Spray Tan makes it to the top

Laurei — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:26:50 +0000

I’m well pleased that Aussiebodz, a Brisbane Spray Tan company, which I worked on its SEO campaign has made it to the top of Google for “brisbane spray tan” its core business description, as well as a few other phrases; The company (perhaps as a result of its prominent ranking) was approached by Extra on Channel 9 to do a segment on fake tanning which aired on friday the 3rd of October. Well done Aussiebodz.

Embassy of El Salvador United Kingdom and Ireland

Laurei — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:26:07 +0000

Recently I completed the website for the embassy of El Salvador in the UK and also Ireland in English and Latin American Spanish. El Salvador is a small republic in Central America.

The site is rich in content and imagery that it almost doubles as a tourism site for the Republic - as usual the content it was designed for Google to pick it up quickly as it has done.

As this is a government website, there was great importance put on accessibility, there is graceful degrading for the evil IE6 browser, as well as some performance bells and whistles for compliant browsers via the use of jquery.

The embassy staff were lovely to work for, and they are very happy with their project.

Left to Right, Ambassador Dr Vladimiro P Villalta presenting Laura Rodriguez and myself with a diploma of appreciation.

Conforminator

Laurei — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:22:31 +0000

I am in the process of developing a library called Conforminator, to make Javascript, CSS…etc work standard way across all browsers.

I have released it through Ghostmotion

Natural text input labels for human interface

Laurei — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:48:31 +0000

*As seen on this site*

Just a simple one this time, but now I use it in almost every website search field I make. What you see in the video is an box, but with the label actually inside it, instead if needing to take up space on the outside, what happens is when you click on or focus the text-box the label slowly removes its self and the text box is highlighted. A user can then type their search string unhindered by the label that was once inside it. When the person click off the search box the highlighting disappears and label is restored.I have already thought of a few things I can do for the 2.0 version, but as always let me know. (more…)

Code highlighter

Laurei — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:56:19 +0000

just testing a new code hightlighter, sounds good


text text hello



function test($string)

          {

          echo “Hello World!”.$string;

          }

// hello world

?>

text text hello


var string=’string’;

function test(string)

          {

          alert(“Hello World! “ + string);

          // hello world

          }

The best Flash Image Zoomer, drop it in! free!

Laurei — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:21:37 +0000

JadedCadence Solar System.

About the free flash image zoomer

A client was looking for a solution to seamlessly zoom into images on a website, we looked on every search engine, exhausted every link, and screwed around everywhere searching keywords such as “flash image zoomer”, “image resizer”, and just about every other combination, and we just couldn’t find one that fit the bill - so the “Flash Image Zoomer” was born. It’s the second Actionscript widget I have done in my life, I’m not really into flash because flash is not exactly open source but what it can do is awesome, wouldn’t you agree? I was originally going to try and reverse engineer a proprietry one I’d seen but after a while it seemed like it was getting nowhere so I whipped a version one, now I’ve revisited it, and developed a rich set of features to add on which are as follows.

Open source image zoomer features

Compatible with AS1, AS2, AS3, (actionscript1, actionscript 2, actionscript 3), (although according to Doug Crockford Actionscript is not ECMA script complient like javascript)
Customizable zoomer window colours
Multiple zoom steps, backwards and forwards
Smooth logarithmic easing (I think it’s set to quadratic at the moment)
Can be seamlessly dropped in anywhere there is a normal image
You don’t need to open flash to play with it, it’s all from the query string
No need to use xml
Works great with flash swfobject or kmlembed
Popup thumbnail
Click anywhere on the image or the thumbnail to move the picture
Dimensions of thumbnail are the same as the main picture
You never see whitespace

If anyone has any suggestions, or requests, hit me up I’d be happy to help, I know just how hard it is to find this, I already have a few for version 2

How much time and money have I saved you?

Sharing is caring, and free open source software is not cheap I’m sure you all have Paypal, or Google checkout, consider taking 2 minutes, click on the button, and spend a dollar equivalent percentage of the time you would have saved on developing this baby yourself.

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Assembly: Bridal Couture

Laurei — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:29:33 +0000

More assembly for me, I just finished Shanna Melville’s site for Bridal Couture. So much went wrong which I had to cover but really enjoyed working on it.

Website assembly

Laurei — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:15:47 +0000

Assembly is where a client designs a site in a purely visual manner in Photoshop and I assemble it into a website using XHTML and CSS.

This project was a media company with a real estate client.

http://benham.projects.lurei.com

A little note about sending jobs:Make the documents layers in photoshop, this design was without layers so I ended up cutting and measuring EVERYTHING manually, it’s not the best way to work.

Brisbane Spray Tan

Laurei — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:02:25 +0000

Just completed the initial for Brisbane Spray Tanning, a website for Aussie Bodz Spray Tan. Essentially, I took a Wordpress site and made it static. Since I chose a Wordpress theme that was perfect, all really had to do was edit the banner and add some branding. I set up the Search Engine Optimisation, with sitemaps, and analytics plugins, suggested a list of SEO based content for the client to write, and that was a wrap. 2 days was all that took from start to finish, a real win considering the clients minimal budget. Have a peek at BrisbaneSprayTan.com.au for yourself.

The Humaniser

Laurei — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:10:40 +0000

Because the same is boring.The Humaniser is essence a sentance randomiser. Often in the the web we tend to place certain blocks of text on similar or the same pages, causing the text blocks to be repeated time and time again. Wouldn’t it be good to actually change the wording of text slightly in each repetition, so that each successive repetition of a sentance means the same thing but is worded somewhat differently. With a little setting up, this is exactly what the humaniser does.Although It was actually programmed for the needs of a Dragon Search Engine Optimisation client, SEO is not it’s only use. Other uses include creative literature, games, and collaboritive writing.To use the humaniser just follow the instructions:

Create or select a “flow” - Because the Humaniser can be used in multiple instances, by multiple clients, each instance is called a flow, you can name your own flow and come back to it later.
Think of what you want to say; you will need to pre-plan what you say to get the most out of the flow.
ACROSS: Start typing your first flow. In each field you can put as many or as few words as you want, each field represents a different part of the flow that will be randomised.
DOWN: Now for each field you will supply a number of alternatives, some fields may not need an alternative, but some will benefit from dozens, in this stage remember that the random options are not line by line, or even word by word, but are field by field.

Play with the Humaniser prototype and leave us some