Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts tagged with javascript
09/14/2011
Atlantic Records is Hiring a Freelance Web Developer
Atlantic Records is seeking a front-end developer who can drive the creation of artist websites, social media applications and help grow our mobile web/app offerings. You’ll be joining a team of 20+ digital creatives working in a fast-paced, exciting environment where your work will be seen by millions of people. You should love researching new [...]
01/25/2011
Launching Mobile Websites for Artists
Last June we launched a group of mobile websites along with Adobe for their Flash 10.1 for mobile announcement. Since then Mike Mignano, Jackie Balzer and I have made frequent updates to the framework to give our artists the most feature rich and portable sites in the business. We’re now in the process of rolling [...]
06/03/2010
Using Google Translate
As my blog has grown in traffic I’ve noticed more and more readers coming from outside of the US, and while not surprising it does pose new issues. As more and more non-english (or non-native) speaking readers began to read my blog started looking for an automated way to translate into their language of choice. [...]
04/26/2010
Flash Runtime Written Entirely in Javascript
Gordon is a open source Javascript based Flash Player written by Tobey Tailor that allows users to playback Flash content without having the plugin. It currently only supports Flash 1 & 2 so Actionscript users are out of luck. Right now browser support is pretty limited but it’s an interesting project worth keeping your eyes [...]
04/15/2010
Twitter launches @anywhere
Yesterday Twitter launched it’s @anywhere service which makes integrating most Twitter functions as simple as adding a few lines of Javascript code. You can easily: Auto-link @usernames Create Hovercards for @usernames Create follow buttons that don’t require users to leave your site Add a “Tweet Box” which allows users to tweet without leaving your site [...]
03/30/2010
JQuery Plugin for the iPhone
JQTouch is a JQuery Plugin for the iPhone that lets you add animation to mobile websites similar to the interactions found in native applications. Developers just need to include the most recent version of JQuery from Google code, a JQTouch js file and some css to get up and running with native webkit animations, swipe [...]
10/22/2009
Type on the Web
Smashing Magazine has a great new article on options for typography on the web. It covers javascript image replacement, Flash image replacement and the use of actual fonts on the web through new services like Typekit. Check out the article.
05/21/2009
Flexible Scalable Background Images
My friend Michael Bester (another former WMG Digital Properties employee) has a great blog post about creating scalable background images. I’ve built similar components for Flash Projects but this is the first really great example of this I’ve seen using javascript. Check it out.
04/27/2008
Improving upon Lightbox
I’ve been a user of Lightbox for years. It’s an amazing step forward in usability for websites, a beautiful way to display modular information without annoying pop-ups. Recently two new frameworks have come to my attention. Slimbox is a Lightbox compatible framework that is MUCH smaller than the slightly large Lightbox framework. Built off a different [...]
