My friends at Zero One Design have just begun beta testing on their new app Madrona.
“Madrona is an open source museum collections management system written for the community, by the community. Featuring an intuitive design and ground breaking media and internet integration, Madrona creates a whole new standard for collection management.”
Lately I’ve been trying to understand how AJAX is changing the experience that Drupal users will be having in the near future. This is particularly important as a Drupalista given the redesign currently under way. Here are some great looking modules that should be ready a bit sooner than the redesign. Warning: these modules might not be ready for primetime yet.
Sp0xx6 is the latest version of my Drupal UI. It’s a minimalist concept, great for populating sites with content quickly and for first-time users.
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I find javascript particularly useful to make up for the shortcomings of IE6 and that is what this post is mostly about. (more…)
I’ve fallen completely, some would say hopelessly, in love with jquery. With the near 100% penetration of javascript it seems like it’s finally time to start using the stuff everywhere and the folks at jquery have ever-growing list of reasons why.
My favorite at the moment is the jquery based 3d Carousel that mimics the mac cover flow feature. It does what it sounds like it does – allows you to take a number of images and turn them into a rotating 3d Carousel. The mouse interaction is a little sluggish but is sure to get better in the near future.
Next up is the very simple WYMeditor. I started out writing html and over the last few years have really gotten into CSS. I love the idea of xhtml, but some of it just doesn’t seem very human if you get my drift. The WYMeditor is designed to allow you to produce chunks of code that won’t gum up the gears of your W3C validation within the comfort of a friendly little text editor.
And finally another simple and yet extremely useful jQuery plugin – tableHover. When it comes to interfaces it’s nearly always the simple, nearly unnoticeable things that really make a difference between a good interface and a stop-what-you’re-doing-and-call-your-mother interface. tableHover presents you with a number of options to focus user attention on one aspect or another of a table. You can set parameters for columns, rows, columns + rows, etc. Very customizable and fairly straight forward to implement as well.
