WebDesign&Such

In a previous post I showed possibly the easiest way to embed a Twitter feed on your website. This brought up a couple of questions from some users.

1. Can you make a background behind individual Tweets?
2. Can you put the date on it’s own separate line?

As the case goes with a lot of things these days jQuery to the rescue! Check out the demo to see both of these things in action, and then continue reading to see how to accomplish these things with jQuery and download the source files.

View Demo Continue reading

Well the day finally came

… the re-design of my personal website BeantownDesign.com is complete! Well, complete enough to launch I should say. A TON of hours went into this latest version of my site, and I can truly say I’m pleased with the results. I liked my old site, but I had too many new features that I wanted to try out, as well as a new look.

Some notable features of the new BeantownDesign.com include:

• JQuery pop-up boxes
• JQuery images sliders
• Live Facebook style chat
• Twitter feed pulled onto site
• CSS drop nav with image replacement
• Smooth Scroll for “TOP of page” links
• Animated Favicon
• Google Map

Continue reading