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A Case for RESS

Erik Runyon — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:13:23 +0000

On the new ND.edu we used a combination of server-side detection, media queries and javascript to determine content. We made the decision that not all content needed to be initially loaded for mobile devices, and instead made it available through (…)

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Hi-res/Retina Display CSS Sprites

Erik Runyon — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:31:45 +0000

My 2010 article about hi-res background images gave a pretty simple example of how to replace a background image with a 2x version for the fancy hi-res devices that are hitting the markets. In this example, I’ll show you how (…)

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Simple Feed Caching with PHP

Erik Runyon — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:24:54 +0000

The latest version of ND.edu makes use of A LOT of external data sources. To make sure the site runs reliably, even in the case of an outage by one of the external feeds, I put together a fairly simple (…)

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iOS 5.1 Position Fixed Bug

Erik Runyon — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:46:07 +0000

While building the most recent ND.edu, I ran into a little iOS 5.1 bug (at least I think it’s a bug). One of the features of the site is a menu with “position:fixed”. Another feature is we load a number (…)

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CSS3 Multi-column lists

Erik Runyon — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:23:05 +0000

Over the past couple of months, our group over at the @NDWebTeam has been redesigning the main ND.edu website. What we quickly realized is that ND.edu has a lot of lists. And since part of our design process was to (…)

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Emergency Notifications: Getting the word out at Notre Dame

Erik Runyon — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:33:15 +0000

Back in November, Chas Grundy wrote about our emergency procedure for ND.edu. When we implemented this feature for ND.edu, we based the functionality on a single-source file. This gave the ability to update the message on both ND.edu and emergency.nd.edu (…)

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HighEdWeb 2011 Slides and Notes

Erik Runyon — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:22:22 +0000

Last week I attended HighEdWeb which took place in Austin, TX. This was my first trip to this conference, and perhaps feeling a little over-ambitious, I co-presented a talk with programmer extraordinaire Jeremy Friesen titled “Feeding the Beast”, which was (…)

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Accessibility Basics: Access Keys

Erik Runyon — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:55:13 +0000

As developers, there’s a number of things we should be sure to include into each site we build to help with accessibility. One of the most basic of these is access keys. Access Keys Access keys are a very simple (…)

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Educating Our Clients About Responsive Web Design

Erik Runyon — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:52:00 +0000

A couple days ago in a post-meeting chat I mentioned to my Project Manager Extraordinaire @GtownNick, that I’d like to extend our development time on custom sites by a couple of hours so we could spend a little more time (…)

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Consuming Remote XML as JSONP

Erik Runyon — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:52:23 +0000

It’s All About Sharing Content One of the basic tenets behind the internet is sharing data. Initially, that was primarily done with HTML. But with the rise of web applications, sometimes plain HTML just won’t do. That’s where API’s and (…)

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