Journal
FriendlyCase Plugin for WordPress
After frustration of keeping a consistent look with title typography on our WordPress sites, friend and fellow designer/developer @sauldraws and I came up with FriendlyCase for WordPress. It’s based on Saul’s original function code that I took and built into a simple WordPress plugin. Pretty Simple and keeps the ALL CAPS issue in check. (more…)
BadCat helps relaunch Michael Leslie Photography website
Local Philadelphia photographer, Michael Leslie, enjoys shooting weddings, mitzvahs, as well as portraits, and commercial photography in the Philadelphia suburban area. His web presence not only promotes his business, but incorporates a blog and showcases examples of his work. Leslie’s website also displays recent events he has shot, allowing clients to view their special day online. This Philadelphia area photographer, turned to BadCat Design to refresh the website they had designed for him a few years prior. (more…)
HTML5 and CSS3 Mac Animation Tools
Here’s the current landscape of Mac based (although many of these also offer other platform versions) HTML5 /CSS3 animation tools. Some of these apps take a very similar approach to the animation process and toolkit. Many use a layout very similar to Adobe AfterEffects or Flash. Some even offer fallback to Adobe’s Flash or browser specific CSS3 Properties, such as Keyframe animation and Transition effects.
We’ve used quite a few of these and of course have our favorites, but many have their own advantages. The tools change rapidly as does HTML5 and CSS3, so you’d need to check them out for yourself. We’ve listed them by alphabetically by name, version, tagline, url and price, as currently available. (more…)
Animation on the Web with Sencha Animator
Over the years animation on the web has certainly changed. We’ve worked with GIF89A, Shockwave, FutureSplash- then Flash, DHTML, to name but a few. Given the need for high quality interactive animation for Mobile devices such as iOS, CSS3 animations, coupled with JavaScript and HTML5, have really taken off. (more…)
BadCat Design helps re-launch This Is Serious website
Vascular Disease Foundation re-launched the “This is Serious” website with development help from BadCat Design. Their new website was created to help drive the “This is Serious”campaign which raises awareness about Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and Pulmonary Embolism (PE) Risks for Women.
HTML5 was utilized on this site, bringing it up to date with the latest web-standards, ensuring its staying power. A simple CMS was implemented so that VDF can easily add new press releases, keeping the progress of the campaign going. On the home page there are a few animated points of visual interest. (more…)
BadCat Design launches VisitNewHope.com
We recently completed a new content managed site for the Greater New Hope Chamber of Commerce using a very customized install of the popular Open Source software, WordPress, to create their new New Hope Visitor’s Guide. New features include:
- New Design and Navigation
- Easy to Find Shops and Services built with custom database tables
- Enhanced Search
- New Events Calendar with the ability to link to Google Calendar or iCal
- Enhanced Maps using Google’s Map API
- Consistent Social Media Properties and Branding
- and Up-To-Date News Posts with RSS feeds
Tumult’s Hype app helps us with quick advertising banners
Quick post of some work we’re doing with Tumult’s new Hype application. We’re able to quickly mock up a Flash-free, HTML 5 version of an ad in less than 20 minutes.
A great looking application, complete with keyframeable timeline, opacity and positioning tools and lots more. Love it! Here’s a link to the final animation.
Didi’s Chocolates – eCommerce site
Well-known pastry chef and chocolatier, Dorothy Mercier, approached us to create an ecommerce site for her business, Didi’s Chocolates.
Until this point, Didi’s Chocolates has been a small business that sells their chocolate confections to local Bucks County gourmet grocers. Recently Didi decided to expand. An e-commerce site was the next logical step for her business. An online store would create an uncomplicated and dynamic forum to reach more people and to sell her handmade chocolate bars, squares, ganache, barks, cordials, cookies, cakes and tarts.
New eCommerce Magento relaunch – MapResources.com
Project URL: http://www.mapresources.com
We recently completed a new content managed site for MapResources using Magento to create their new custom store.
Map Resources, in Lambertville, NJ is an online, digital vector map retailer with over 4,000 downloadable products and nearly 300 pages of content. They sell editable, vector, multi-layer, city, US state maps, country, continent and world maps for print, multimedia and web graphics applications, compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms. (more…)