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Conference Registration Sites

Posted in: Websites by koolkat on May 11, 2010 | No Comments

I have now had the opportunity to work on 2 years worth of conference websites for the Rotary District 5030. The first site is complete and the conference will be held in Portland this week. This was the first registration site that I ever worked on and it was a learning experience. One of the issues that came up was that people were not always sure of the registration process. This lead to having steps indicated on next year’s site. People seems to find this really helps and it was a simple addition to the process.

PayPal

Posted in: Websites by koolkat on April 30, 2010 | No Comments

I have spent the past 2 weeks working on various projects requiring the use of PayPal for checkouts. On vinacafeusa, their premium coffee mix is now available online. Findacounselor.net allows new members to pay the joining fee with PayPal and finally, I started working on the Rotary District 5030 conference registration for 2011!

Data2insight Website Launched

Posted in: Websites, WordPress by koolkat on April 26, 2010 | No Comments

Data2insight helps organizations put 4 key strategies to work: Visualization, Measurement, Research and Planning.

The website is built on a WordPress platform for easy content management and includes a blog.

Adobe CS5

Posted in: Websites by koolkat on April 12, 2010 | No Comments

I attend an online preview for the Adobe CS5 launch. I am most interested in checking out the improved methods for extracting images from a background, the ability to create Flash that will run many mobile devices including iPhones and iPads. And finally the ability to preview content managed websites in Dreamweaver. It looked like the demo was actually using WordPress which is currently my preferred content management system.

HTML 5 and CSS 3

Posted in: Websites by koolkat on April 8, 2010 | 1 Comment

I attended the work shop put on by Event Apart Seattle to update my skills in this area.

I am particularly interested in using the video and audio tags for my mobile websites.
As for CSS3, I am already using the border radius feature – although I am relying on jQuery for that as it will handle trident base browsers (IE). I also tried using text shadow to a nice effect on a website I am developing. And added RGBA with a transition to my website for content links.

Find Kool Kat Web Designs on your mobile phone

Posted in: Mobile Websites by koolkat on April 2, 2010 | No Comments

Just take a picture with your barcode app on your smart phone.

Kool Kat Web Designs QR Barcode

Jcarousel for WordPress

Posted in: WordPress, WordPress Plugin by koolkat on March 31, 2010 | No Comments

This plugin displays images in a carousel. It was inspired by Carousel Gallery by Joen.

Download Jcarousel for WordPress Now

Installation

1. Unpack the plugin, put it in your “plugins” folder (`/wp-content/plugins/`).
2. Activate the plugin from the Plugins section.

F.A.Q.

How do I change the layout?
Most of the design, you have to do using CSS. Fortunately there are lots of classes to hook into.

How do I change the image and thumbnail sizes?
Carousel Gallery uses the WordPress Media settings for this (Settings -> Media).

Photos for this demo were provided by Jerry Whiting of JetCityOrange.

adobe cs3 suite licensing issue

Posted in: Websites by koolkat on March 18, 2010 | No Comments

For the second time, Adobe cs3 has stopped working with the message “Licensing for this product has stopped working”. I have tried to follow all the recomendations on the Adobe website but to no avail. The last time this happened, I had to clean the registry and re-install the program. I guess I will probably have to do this again. I am beginning to re-think my reliance on Adobe products.

Seattle Neuromuscular Massage Therapy

Posted in: Websites by koolkat on March 14, 2010 | No Comments

Just completed a new website for Seattle Neuromuscular Massage Therapy.

More trouble with Table Layouts

Posted in: Websites by koolkat on March 4, 2010 | 1 Comment

I recently took on a very small project to do some modifications to a website. As this website was several years old, it used a table layout. The changes needed to be made on several pages and consisted of removing old information that was replaced with a new link. So, on every page I had to make sure to remove the correct code and no extra tables that would have messed up the layout. This process took me about 2 hours but would have been about 30 minutes on a CSS based site.