http://davejay.exit42design.com/From Exit 42 Design, it's my personal weblog. Talk about everything from God to Javascripten-usCopyright 2007 Exit 42 Designhttp://davejay.exit42design.com/rss/daveJaysBlog.xmlTue, 15 Jul 2008 11:28:12 PDT I've been thinking a lot recently about my life, happiness, and yes, that mushy topic we all love.... love. I'm rather secluded being a freelancer. I've always been somewhat of an introvert. For the most part, I like to keep to myself. And I feel I've been able to really refine my craft as a result, It's also given me more time to focus on my relationship with God.http://davejay.exit42design.com/entry/All/45http://davejay.exit42design.com/entry/All/45Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT I recently had the opportunity to develop an image scaling technique that vertically and horizontally centers and scales an image depending on the browser window size. The result is an image that fills the whole of the page no matter what position or size the browser should happen to be in. Here is an example of the resizing result that we're shooting for.http://davejay.exit42design.com/entry/All/44http://davejay.exit42design.com/entry/All/44Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:51:13 PDT Nobody would deny the fact that Flash has become the de facto standard for video on the web. However, I don't think there's ever been more confusion as to how to actually do that, as well as have a good set of video controls that actually work and maintain web standards in the process. This tutorial will outline the process that I've started using for serving video on the web with Flash.http://davejay.exit42design.com/entry/All/43http://davejay.exit42design.com/entry/All/43Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT One of the common questions that I receive from potential clients is whether or not I do Flash. The answer is always no. It's not because I hate Flash, but because I've never had or seen a use for it. So as a result, I never learned it. So I'd like to explain my philosophy when it comes to Flash on the web. I won't talk about horrible Flash practices such as animating every element on the page as it builds in and use that as an excuse to boycott the technology. Flash done well can be very useful.http://davejay.exit42design.com/entry/All/42http://davejay.exit42design.com/entry/All/42Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 PDTMy latest project in the form of goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/ (or g56ogle.com for short) has brought up an interesting ethical dillema for me. About a week ago I launched the site to serve basically as a re-skinned version of google.com. It gives users the ability to search the web in style. It's powered with Google's Adsense for Search, which allows me to simply throw the code in to handle all the actual searching functionality. When a user enters a search term and hits return they're taken to a results page, and the URL in their browser changes to something like this: "http://www.goo...oogle.com/results/?q=andrew+baron....". The search query is clearly indicated inside the actual URL. Now this might not seem to really matter because there's no way for me to actually see all the queries that people enter.http://davejay.exit42design.com/entry/All/41http://davejay.exit42design.com/entry/All/41Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PDT