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some recently launched pw-powered sites...

Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music
Custom blog & news, projects listing and works w/ dataTables...
using Soma's social share for the sharing buttons
 
Daniel Lippel, Guitarist
 
Flowers by Selina
Website for floral designer in Westchester, NY. Features custom blog, homepage featured portfolio and full masonry portfolio.
 
Eric Huebner, Pianist
media handled by Soundmanager2. A frontpage ajax-powered widget was implemented to let visitors browse the concert & event calendar, with a browsable month view.
 
Anderson Chase Gallery
Simple one-pager
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First of all, the sites are all look awesome. Not that I would be surprised, but just saying :)

Perhaps it's just me, but there's one odd thing on all but the Roger Shapiro Fund site – the scroll speed, that is. Not the first time I've come across this, so perhaps it's something I should recognize, but I'm having trouble scrolling the sites with my touchpad. A small swipe sends me flying to the bottom (or top) of the site, and scrolling slowly through the content takes some serious effort. Any idea what that's all about?

Other than that, can't find anything to complain about :)

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Nice works Macrura, as always

A quick note on the Roger Shapiro Fund site: on every page load I notice a "Please enable Javascript" (on the top left of the screen) for half a second or so, then the view fade in correctly.

Other than that, everything runs fine and smooth.

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First of all, the sites are all look awesome. Not that I would be surprised, but just saying :)

Perhaps it's just me, but there's one odd thing on all but the Roger Shapiro Fund site – the scroll speed, that is. Not the first time I've come across this, so perhaps it's something I should recognize, but I'm having trouble scrolling the sites with my touchpad. A small swipe sends me flying to the bottom (or top) of the site, and scrolling slowly through the content takes some serious effort. Any idea what that's all about?

Other than that, can't find anything to complain about :)

@teppo - thanks (as always) for checking these out! On a mac, FF,Chrome, the scrolling seems to be ok..i tried it on a kensington roller mouse and an apple touchpad..

Nice works Macrura, as always

A quick note on the Roger Shapiro Fund site: on every page load I notice a "Please enable Javascript" (on the top left of the screen) for half a second or so, then the view fade in correctly.

Other than that, everything runs fine and smooth.

OK - thanks for pointing that out :blush: , just fixed it (and a few other things as well while i was in there... site was launched back in October, but i don't think it has seen much traffic)...

@bernhard - thanks for checking these out - hoping to post some mini case studies about some things that were developed for these, mostly to do with the blog..

@martijn - thanks - couldn't have done these without your modules!, especially AdminCustomFiles! i think almost all of these use the image tagging setup from this past summer

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@teppo - thanks (as always) for checking these out! On a mac, FF,Chrome, the scrolling seems to be ok..i tried it on a kensington roller mouse and an apple touchpad..

Weird. On two separate Macs I'm seeing the same issue, but it only seems to affect Chrome. Scrolling speed is normal on Firefox and Safari :)

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ok - thanks again for reporting; not sure what the issue is but it is probably related to the wow animate or the smoothscroll; i do see that the scrolling is faster on that page when i put it side bu side with this window....

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Sorry, had to debug a bit further. Looks like it's caused by something called "ssc", whatever that is. Disabling the "ischrome" check fixes the weird scroll issue, though this probably means that this behaviour is (for some reason I can't quite grasp) intentional :)
 

if (ischrome) {
    ssc_addEvent("mousedown", ssc_mousedown);
    ssc_addEvent("mousewheel", ssc_wheel);
    ssc_addEvent("load", ssc_init)
};

Edit: Looks like that's the SmoothScroll you mentioned.

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now if i could just get that client to write some blog posts (finding that a lot of clients are insisting on blogs and never using them at all)

I guess that's one of the rules cut in stone, as it's been that way for a decade. Probably because not writing a blog entry is the way to avoid work load with the least palpable impact... Perhaps you could try selling blogging support as a coaching bundle. 2 hours consulting for topic selection, 2 hours for you creating a draft, a boss-approved deadline to get it edited for technical correctness by one of your client's specialists and two more hours for finalizing the wording and guiding them through the input. Three or four of these and the usual arguments/excuses (we don't have a fitting topic right now; our current topics are too technical; I've put it on the boss' stack but not heard back; we're waiting for [the release of product X|the traide fair|Christmas]) should be defeated.

Some of the big misconceptions I've often found at clients are that writing a blog entry is easy and that obviously blog-worthy topics come up on a daily basis. It's always a steep learning curve for most to accept that

  • you can't just quickly write a blog entry when you feel like it; you have to collect ideas and images beforehand and stick to a schedule
  • blog entries are different from structured site content; writing them is a more creative process
  • you often have to cut corners and sacrifice technical details to keep a blog entry interesting, so you often need two people to keep a balance there
  • blogging takes time, too
  • good blog content holds incentive value, be it because it's humorous or touching or because it has interesting information hard to find elsewhere
  • a blog is not a company history; nobody wants to read plain facts there, so the writing needs to have a personal touch
  • a good blog is a bit like an ongoing novel; it needs cliffhangers and suspense to keep readers' interest. Teasing them with upcoming products and events requires the client to have a reliable timeline for these though
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the blog i setup for 2 of the above has a lot of standard blog features like categories, tags, archive, feeds, comments etc; it was no small effort to set that up, but once i had the basic setup i reused the code; i didn't use the blog module, since i predicted that they would actually never use it, and i didn't have time at that phase to integrate a module, i just did it quick with pages and page selects..

Are you sure you need a blog? "yes! we must have a BLOG"
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