Category Archives: Coding

Sep
01
2012

by James
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Happy Birthday, Zen Insights!

One year ago, I launched a website called Zen Insights as a place to post inspirational quotes and articles. The goal was to collect and analyze spiritual and philosophical thoughts, inspirations and personal experiences gathered on the way to enlightenment. I feel as though I have changed and grown over the past year, expanding my outlook on life and hope to keep opening my mind in the coming year. With the help of some wonderful people, and all you readers the site is going strong. If you have … Continue reading →

Aug
09
2012

by James
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Website Design for Ben Jeapes, Science Fiction Writer.

I just completed a new website design for Ben Jeapes, author of one of my favorite books (The Ark, also known as His Majesty’s Starship). The website is a modified WordPress theme featuring custom CSS, spam blocking comments, a fully functioning blog, contact form and over 100 pages of content, making it my largest scale project to date in sheer amount of content. Ben is already happily blogging away, having picked up the use of WordPress quickly. There is a reason it is so popular: it’s extremely user … Continue reading →

Jul
26
2012

by James
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RSS Feed News Ticker

I decided to create a news ticker tool which pulls RSS feeds from some of my top sources for news coverage. Using this tutorial, I adapted some code to suit my needs. Features: 4 separate RSS feeds Shows article title, description, link and date Auto rotates through the top articles Pauses the rotation when article is hovered over The ticker features 4 feeds from the most trusted names in journalism to aid in my efforts to stay informed: Al Jazeera, BBC, New York Times and NPR.

Mar
22
2012

by James
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Change CSS style based on time of day using jQuery

I wanted to build a site that was responsive to the time of day. My idea was to have the background shift gradually throughout the day to reflect whether it was day, sunset or night. I originally used one coded in PHP, however, since PHP is a server-side language the theme would change based on the time for the server rather than the user. After realizing I needed to use Javascript in order to get the user’s local time instead of the server I spent some time Googling … Continue reading →

Nov
17
2011

by James
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Website Updated

Hello everyone! Recently updated my site to WordPress so I can take advantage of easier content management, updates and blogging. Still ironing out some issues with my theme and I intend to keep on tweaking. All my old content should be up and live within the next couple days. Hope you enjoy the new look.