New Taproot Project

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Deborah

I’m starting a new project with  Taproot: a redesign of the website for Riis Settlement House. I’m really looking forward to working on this because I get to wear both my IA hat and my Front-End Developer hat. There isn’t a dedicated IA on the team and they need someone to create the sitemap and wireframes. Naturally I volunteered.

The most exciting thing is that we are going to use Responsive Design principles to design the site so it can be viewed on mobile devices as well as laptops and desktop computers.

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3 Chicks Site update

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Deborah

We just launched an update to the 3 Chicks that Click photography website on Tuesday that includes a new subdomain focused on corporate photography work: http://corporate.3chicksthatclick.com. Some minor updates include an upgraded video player and more SEO-friendly page titles.

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From the Athena Film Festival

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Deborah

I consider my writing strengths more in the technical and instructional areas, but when my friend Elizabeth convinced me to work with her on covering the Athena Film Festival for Women’s Voices For Change, I thought “Why not?” And now I have my very own review of My So-Called Enemy up on the site!

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HTML5 and Video

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Deborah

Recently a client asked me to put up a video on her new website. The one thing I knew for certain was my solution had to be HTML5 friendly, but also backwards-compatible for all the clientele still using IE (well, IE7 & 8 – I’ve mostly given up on IE6). When I first started coding HTML, RealAudio was the solution everybody used, now a lot of video is Flash-based. But wait, Flash isn’t exactly a universal solution.

I started my research with the Video chapter of Dive Into HTML5. After reading, I knew that no one format of video was going to work. I also needed a player that would be easy to integrate.

I found a list of HTML5 players on this HTML5 Video Player comparison page and looked for one that was free, open-source, had flash fallback and was easy to integrate and theme. My choice was Projekktor. There might be better ones, but I had limited time to play around with different players and this one had good documentation. Next, I had to find an encoder… or two or three.

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