I'm happy to announce that the new and improved SlideSix is now live. This new look and feel is a complete overhaul compared to the original design of the site. The new design uses a lot of gray, blue and black in order to make the site more closely resemble the Flex pieces that were already in place. There are also a lot of rounded corners to take the edge off of the deep colors so they hopefully don't overwhelm. Thanks to some feedback there is also a shiny new logo. Here's the new home page:
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I quietly added a new feature to SlideSix earlier this week which now extracts the text contents of each slide and displays that text as a transcript on the view page of a presentation. The reason behind this enhancement is to dramatically increase the search engine visibility of your presentations since search engines will be basically indexing the content of each of your slides.
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SlideSix is slowly gaining traction and some changes were pushed last Friday that should help in getting the site some more market share in the vast online presentation sharing community.
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Posted At : August 5, 2008 10:09 AM | Posted By : todd sharp
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Last night I pushed a small change to SlideSix.com. This change was the simple addition of yet more jQuery in the form of the UI Uploader. I wanted a way to provide some feedback when uploading files (via a progress bar) and just improve the presentation upload experience a bit. Here is a screenshot of the new upload utility:
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Posted At : July 17, 2008 4:32 PM | Posted By : todd sharp
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Ajax
I had a request via IM for a more complete example of doing validation within a form submission. I threw together a quick example here to better explain my thought process. Please remember I'm new to jQuery so what I'm doing might not be an example of best practices. Feel free to suggest an alternative.
So essentially I need to capture the submit event of my form. In this case I'm assuming a single form so I simply refer to the tag name in my selector, but I'm sure you could just as easily refer to an id. Here is a simple wrapper to capture the form submission:
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Posted At : July 17, 2008 10:05 AM | Posted By : todd sharp
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Last night I wanted to implement a simple measure to prevent double form submissions so I of course turned to my newest best friend for a little help. My goal was simple - when the form was submitted just swap out the submit button for a little animated gif and a 'Saving' message. My first thought was to capture the click of the submit button like so:
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A reader (ironically named Todd) commented on my post yesterday:
I'd also like to see some discussion about Ext vs. Spry.
Dreamweaver CS3 seems to have settled on Spry while CF8 has settled on Ext (1.0). Apparently, Adobe divisions do not talk to each other.
I can't decide between them. I find Ext (at least teh 1.0 version used in CF) to be difficult and frustrating to use. Prototype.js was easy. I haven't yet tried Spry.
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