Another MU WebCom project is done! The redesigned Human Resource Services (HRS) site is live. This was a long, complex project that touched almost everyone on our staff. Every aspect of the site was rebuilt, from the information architecture to the final design. The following is a quick recap of our goals.
This week, we had the big boss command us to put the AddThis button on MizzouWire’s story pages. It’s a handy service that helps visitors share your content by emailing it or posting it to various social media sites.
Well, that depends …
It’s never easy to just add a feature to your site. Even little buttons have their problems. The AddThis button, for example, uses off-site JavaScript to work and if you don’t apply it in a certain way, it might affect your site in unexpected ways.
Sure, if you just copy and paste the code where you want the button, it’ll work, but here are some of the problems we ran into.
On a recent project, I needed to produce a simple slide show, like this one, so I used SlideShow Pro (SSP) to create it. The difference was that I needed to have captions appear below the slide show and a click through button on top of it to let the viewer know that there was a profile attached to the image. Since SSP doesn’t do this “out of the box” I had to resort to using some ActionScript.
Note: All code here is AS2 and I assume you already know how to use SSP.
I already figured out how to make my captions display externally, so review that post for more detailed info. For this project, here’s a quick overview:
my_ssp.
