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Friday, July 15, 2011

Friday Links: Google Maps, Web Design Best Practices, Mega Menus

Dan and Eddie we’re messing around with this:

  1. Open Google Maps and click Get Directions
  2. Type Japan as your starting point
  3. Type China as your destination
  4. Read step #42 – the folks at Google are hilarious

If you thought that was fun, try Japan and then USA (#40).

Are you using the +1 button?  Did you know it can be integrated into your site and your visitors can help you improve your relevancy? Find out more about the +1 button  Note: we now have one on our blog, feel free +1 our blog! 

We are getting super excited about the opening of the Legacy Theater, can you tell?

I know we already showed some great uses of jQuery this month, but this photo gallery from RA Sushi is awesome! We also noticed RA is still using Flash on the homepage with graceful degradation for iOS.  What’s graceful degradation you say? Read more about here.

While we’re on the subject, just some web design best practices.

Because many of us here have experience working with computers that somehow qualifies us as Customer Support for all our friends and family.  Alexis has found the solution… LifeHacker’s How To For Beginners.  Priceless!

If you think computer geeks only know computers, you’re wrong!

  • Check out Tracy’s blog post about how a sandwich turned into a pizza.
  • Check out the site Alexis uses to stay on top of her gardening.  Yes, she found it on LifeHacker

Our manager, Jeff Enlow shared an incredible mega menu from Sandals.com.  Hover (don’t click) over The Resorts button in the main nav bar, then hover (don’t click) over any of the names of the resorts and watch the photo and description of that resort scroll like the wheel on Wheel of Fortune. Awesomeness!

If you have kids and like taking video of them with your iPhone this app is a must have!

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Eddie Ebeling is not the main contributor for the LRS Web Solutions blog. Can you tell? Email Cassandra with feedback!

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Meet the Team | Tracy Dyer

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Curious about just who that person is that designs & programs your website? Well, wonder no more! We hope our “Meet the Team” series will help you feel more comfortable and friendly when you walk through the Web Solutions’ doors. We are a fun team with lots of talent and conversation to share… and not just about websites!

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Tracy is an Application Developer at LRS Web Solutions.

Fun Facts About Tracy:

  • By simple luck of the draw & hiring order, he has the smallest cubical in our office – poor guy!  It even has a giant column in the middle of it so if anyone wants to chat with him, we have to talk around the column.  Tracy never complains though.
  • He’s holding a serious grudge with his parents about giving him a girl’s name.  He even named his blog A Boy Named Tracy.
  • Tracy is incredibly talented with JavaScript & JQuery.  Like super-de-duper talented.  Like always-impressing-the-important-people talented.  Oh, and he’s also a DNN know-it-all.
  • He is the most laid back person in our office.  By far.  Andy jokes that Tracy’s heart rate must be incredibly low (Andy’s is high).

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Tracy built the applications and set up DNN for Crisis Nursery.