Mortfiles Evolved

Adding posts into a page

// July 23rd, 2009 // Comments // Development

My plans for adding posts into a Jquery tabs area had to be revised a bit because it was more difficult than I thought to get to work  the way I planned it…

Using custom fields to filter out posts was a bit tricky since it does not work to parse out an input field inside a function as i hoped, so instead I will use the AJAX function of Jquery to automaticly add contents from posts. It means I’ll have to add the post URL and a custom title field, but it works and it does not cause more headache

This makes it possible to manage all sidebar tabbed areas from the core blog as well, which is a great bonus!

Starting to come together

// June 30th, 2009 // Comments // Development

I am pretty happy with my new design so far and I am adding both the TweetBoard and the counters for digg and Tweetmeme as default.

Adoption a design I saw some time ago (atebits.com I think) I have added a sidebox that can use the jQuery library to load tabs of information and still look very clean. This will allow for several uses such as list subcategories, special notices, information andprettu much everything else you can think of.

With 2 ordered VPS’s I hope to be able to get started on this project soon…I am itching!!

JQuery inspiration

// June 22nd, 2009 // Comments // Development

JQuery is quickly becoming my new favorite language and I keep struggling to find uses for all the wonderful ways you can enhance the website, but I’ll have to restrain myself or the website will be to cluttered again.

The Fancybox has many uses, like popups for different information areas and things like that, so that is on my deskof things that might be used. Stylesheet switching has always been something I wanted to try and now I can add it through the SwitchStylesheet script. Dropdown menus are always useful and its one of those things I have wanted to add for a long time. MarkItUp just looks so nice and is just waiting to get used somehow….

Jtip is another thing I think will be great to use as is the simple slider menu, that I will use like presented here. The tabbed interface also has a ton of uses and I probably have at least one of those around. NiceForms would be great for the signup forms and things like that, probably along with jQuery UI or something like that.  RSS will be much easier using jQuery Feed Menus and I love the graphics that Komodomedia do so well.

Mortfiles:revised

// June 22nd, 2009 // Comments // Development

Its been a while now since my last re-design of Mortfiles and to tell the truth its getting a bit bloated and unfocused, which is not exactly promoting sales and its holding me back from getting creative.

In order to fix this I am starting a project where I will rebuild Mortfiles to be a more focused project that IS focused on business and not as a playground for my mad ideas. This project will also merge Mortfiles.com and Mortfiles.se into one dual language website using Wordpress as backend. The new design will be more focused on sale and it will take advantage of JQuery to make things easier and better looking.

I am also going to work with WHMCS to build a better orderform to make things a whole lot nicer, which is something that I have put off for a while now as my heart has not really been in it. The WHMCS package is still the best for the job, but I will now merge the two installations into one, which means dual languages and dual currency setup.

I am going to change the project manager for Mortfiles Evolved and will go for Active Collab instead as I find it more intuitive and nicer in design to work with. I will rework it a bit to make it even more awesome, both through design and hopefully by extending it with some modules down the road.

Right now I am in the scribbling phase where I poke design thoughts and try to figure out what should go where and why, but hopefully it will come together soon enough.