Sticky Footer and the 960 grid
Lately every site WordPress site I build uses the 960 grid (I know, I know…CSS frameworks are bad, but a client wants a site in a week flat…things happen!)
I have been using this really great sticky footer code from:
http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/
But it never seems to work right in Safari UNLESS I omit the following line:
So there you go. Get rid of the text.css file and you’re good to go. This is bit of “extra” css in the 960 grid and seems to interfere the most with my own css anyhow.
Using the Gaia Framework – How to add your own custom preloader
Gaia Flash Framework – How to use your own preloader animation from Nicole Chung on Vimeo.
Lately I have been messing around with the Gaia Framework. I think for certain kinds of flash sites – for example, sites that aren’t Flash games or complex applications – that this framework is a great thing. I know that there are developers out there who feel that it’s better to roll their own framework, but Gaia really does a lot, especially if you use SWFAddress (which – once you get into making larger sites with more than one “/level/” of linking – isn’t easy without employing some design patterns).
A really great thing about the framework, in addition it the constant updates (which I suppose if you were on a longer project, might end up working against you) are some terrific mods (for example, to control cacheing and memory management) and a pretty easy-to-use API.
Gaia Flash Framework – How to create Timeline-based Transitions with Actionscript 3.0
Using the Gaia Framework, it’s possible to use timeline-based transitions that are controlled by Actionscript using Frame Labels and Frame Scripts.
Even though there is an option to choose “Timeline” transitions, just use the “Actionscript” option instead
When you create your timeline transitions, add frame labels to your timeline at the start and beginning of each transition. Then, when the end of the timeline transition occurs, write a frame script that dispatches an event notifying the project that the end of the transition was reached
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Trying out the Gaia Framework: Assets and Site XML
So today I am starting to build a small site using the Gaia Framework.
The first thing I noticed is that when creating assets, the asset ID has to be alpha-numeric, so the following:
- won’t work at all. It has to be:
No dashes.
No ending with a number.