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An Introduction to jQuery for Designers » JavaScript, jQuery » Design Festival

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:01:45 GMT

Site Building Best Practices (part 1)

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:18:56 GMT

In this webinar, we start with a stock HTML/CSS theme and set it up in the Webvanta system. We show how to update the file paths, install all the files, create templates, move code into snippets, and set up the dynamic menu.

Creating Great Mobile Sites Quickly with jQuery Mobile

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:08:34 GMT

Contact form submission @ Tue Jan 31 02:44:33 -0800 2012

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:44:33 GMT

Tyler Wantulok

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:37:10 GMT

As a designer, I had been looking to partner with a developer who would work intimately with me — like having an in-house department without investing in a dedicated staff. I wanted a developer who would listen to my ideas and then work with me to brainstorm the best possible solutions. I found that relationship with Webvanta. They use their depth of knowledge and experience to help me in all stages of our projects.

Josh Woodlander

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:31:59 GMT

One of the North Bay's leading law firms (www.smlaw.com) came to us to redesign their website. Webvanta was a perfect partner to build this site with us. 1stWave was able to focus on the design and user experience, and Webvanta ensured we had an easy-to-use CMS. The Webvanta team used their platform to build the dynamic database-driven pages at a fraction of the cost that we would have had to pay an engineer to build from scratch.

Contact form submission @ Mon Jan 30 13:28:41 -0800 2012

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:28:41 GMT

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15 Responsive CSS Frameworks Worth Considering

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:06:24 GMT

Home | www.applicationcraft.com

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:50:39 GMT

Drag-and-drop jQuery Mobile site builder.

jQuery Mobile

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:42:23 GMT

jQuery Mobile

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:31:26 GMT

Top 10 jQuery Mobile Code Snippets that you need to know

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:28:24 GMT

jQuery Mobile Framework – A Forms Tutorial

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:26:40 GMT

jQuery Mobile & Rails @MetaSkills.net

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:25:04 GMT

Creating jQuery Mobile website themes in Fireworks using the CSS3 Mobile Pack | Adobe Developer Connection

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:23:41 GMT

Customizable starter design for jQuery Mobile | Adobe Developer Connection

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:23:52 GMT

Resources | jQuery Mobile

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:19:05 GMT

The ultimate list of all things jQuery Mobile: sites, books, apps, frameworks, plugins, extensions, tools, themes, and articles.

ThemeRoller | jQuery Mobile

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:15:23 GMT

Drag-and-drop CSS file creator for jQuery Mobile. Lets you customize colors with ease.

jQuery Mobile Examples - JQM Gallery

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:12:23 GMT

Directory of jQuery Mobile sites, with lots of inspiring examples.

Download | jQuery Mobile

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:10:30 GMT

You can download jQuery Mobile here -- but typically you can just load it from the jQuery CDN.

jQuery Mobile: Demos and Documentation

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:09:02 GMT

The official documentation site for jQuery Mobile.

Designing for the Mobile Web

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:00:31 GMT

Use of the mobile web is exploding at an incredible rate. More than a quarter of a billion web-capable phones and tablets are being shipped annually. Within a few years, most sites will have at least as many accesses from mobile devices as from desktop and notebook computers.

Deciding how to best take advantage of mobile devices can be difficult. Not only can it be daunting trying to figure out how to fit everything on a tiny screen, but you need to choose between mobile websites, HTML5 web apps, and native apps.

By the end of this class, you'll understand when to simply build a mobile website, when an app makes sense, and when going native is worthwhile. You'll know how to approach user interface design and content structure for mobile devices, how to give tablet users a great experience, and what frameworks like jQuery Mobile can do for you.

jQuery for Designers

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:49:46 GMT

The modern web is a three-legged-stool: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Without all three legs, your sites are very limited.

jQuery provides a relatively easy way for designers to use plug-ins that encapsulate all the JavaScript required to provide features such as slideshows, calendar widgets, carousels, form validation, tabbed areas, accordions, and more.

By the end of this course, you'll know how to set up all of these features, without needing to become a programmer. We'll teach you just enough JavaScript so you can feel confident installing a wide variety of jQuery plugins, and provide recipes for all the common things you'll want to do.

HTML5 and CSS3

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:42:42 GMT

HTML and CSS are the heart of the web. If you aren't comfortable with them, your ability to design web sites and create web content is severely limited.

Even if you depend on others to do much of the technical work for you, your understanding of the web and your ability to evolve sites that you've designed will improve dramatically when you have a good grasp of these two key technologies.

By the end of this four-week class, we guarantee that you'll be comfortable writing HTML and doing simple styling with CSS. And you'll be up-to-date on the latest HTML5 and CSS3 techniques.

jQuery Mobile Basic

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:19:49 GMT

With this SmartTheme, intended for a mobile-only site, jQuery mobile is all set up with a variety of pages that demonstrate different techniques.

Create custom jQuery mobile themes

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:25:13 GMT

Using and customizing jQuery Mobile themes | Adobe Developer Connection

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:21:27 GMT

Tricia Joseph

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:17:50 GMT

A complex, dynamically driven development job could take 60-90 days. The average now with Webvanta is 30-60 days or less. By completing sites faster, we can take on more projects, which increases monthly revenue.

Ginny Laughlin

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:09:44 GMT

Working with Webvanta has allowed me to offer clients the features they want, with customized interfaces specific to their needs. Webvanta comes through with good ideas, solutions, and consistently high quality work. It has allowed me to spend more time designing, which makes me happy, with the confidence that I can turn the development over to a trusted partner. When it’s done, clients are pleased with the easy-to-use interface of the CMS.

Toby Cowan

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:42:29 GMT

Designing websites is an essential part of what I do. Developing them is an entirely different matter. Over the years, I have relied on a few developers to support me. I have always felt vulnerable. Webvanta has the depth, knowledge and experience to give me the confidence to pursue just about any web project that comes my way.

Mia Morelli

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:11:07 GMT

Webvanta was able to take all our input and create something that worked better than anything we'd used before. I add content almost every day, and I've found the back-end to be intuitive and easy to work with.

Dan Gilbert

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:24:59 GMT

Webvanta has been vital in growing my web design business. Working with Webvanta allows me to offer my clients sites with features beyond what I had been able to provide. In addition, the company's webinars and support staff have taught me so many new skills. Being a graphic-designer-turned-web-designer, it has been a tremendous benefit to find a partner that helps me bridge the technical gap. It lets me focus on my aesthetic skills, knowing they can step in and help me deliver whatever my clients may need.

Tony Sanchez-Corea

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:16:35 GMT

Webvanta designed our site database structure and input capabilities to satisfy our requirements and beyond! Webvanta’s design allows us to update project information whenever we need to. Now that the Webvanta system is active, we edit the site whenever we like and always are supported by the Webvanta team.

David Hehman

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:14:23 GMT

Webvanta dramatically lowered our cost and shortened our timeline to launch Spartina.com. We like the flexibility to quickly add more content to grow our site, and the ability to categorize content easily. Most impressive is that within minutes of writing content, it appears on-line, visible to the users.

Richard Mains

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:12:17 GMT

We needed a flexible, simple tool to create and launch our new knowledge-based Commercial Space Gateway site, fast and at very low cost, and Webvanta fit the bill. Just as important to us, now that we’ve launched, is that anyone can add, delete, and update any type of content. Webvanta truly rocks!

Tod Brilliant

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:09:06 GMT

Before we switched to Webvanta, we didn't have a way to easily update or manage the content. When you can make updates yourself without knowing any coding and still post videos, reports, photos, and links to news, you do it more frequently, which keeps the site fresher and increases our traffic. Plus we've saved money because we didn't have to hire someone to manage the site.

George Grant

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:07:10 GMT

I was pleased to discover that Webvanta is an SEO's Dream Come True. The built-in SEO features for on-page optimization are easy to use and make it easy to implement pages optimized for your targeted keywords. The built-in search-engine-friendly URL structure, blogs, and other features make content organization something you don't really need to worry about. Bottom line, sites built with Webvanta quickly rank well on Google.

Foley Family Wines

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:38:16 GMT

Streamlining Marketing Support

Foley Family Wines is wine conglomerate that has grown rapidly and currently includes 34 wine brands. As the company has grown, the sheer amount of marketing collateral became hard to manage, and getting the right materials to the right people had was very challenging.

Mia Morelli, marketing manager at Foley, commented, "Fielding one-off requests all the time became a very big time sink."

Designing the Site

Working with designer Ginny Laughlin of Athena Design Group, Webvanta built a custom site that provides easy access to thousands of pieces of marketing collateral for the salespeople, distributors, and retailers of all these brands.

Mia and others at Foley had used other marketing asset management systems before, and they knew what features they wanted. Mia noted, "Webvanta was able to take all our input and create something that worked better than anything we'd used before."

The site is intended for the company's distribution and sales channel, not the general public, but much of it is open to public view at www.ffwsales.com.

Custom Browsing Interface

The site has custom navigation that makes it easy to choose the brand, type of image, vintage, and varietal. The site's JavaScript code interacts with the back-end database to disable selections for which there is no content, guiding users to productive choices.

Once users hone in on the brand, image or document type, and optionally the variety or vintage, the system immediately displays the selected content and offers various sizes of images for download.

Easy Content Uploading

Mia and the Foley team have uploaded almost 4,000 images and documents to the site. It's simple for them to tag each file so it will appear in the right places, without any coding or technical knowledge. Mia commented, "I add content almost every day, and I've found the back-end to be intuitive and easy to work with."

Because the Webvanta system allows the site builder to specify any taxonomies to be used as metadata associated with uploaded files, it required no back-end customization to present a highly customized file-upload dialog, including the metadata panel shown below.

Tagging Images and Documents

The tagging system allows each file to be categorized in multiple ways.

When the marketing team uploads a file, they simply click on the appropriate tags to specify the brand, varietal, and vintage. They also check boxes to indicate whether the file is a photo or a document, as well as specific types (such as bottle shot or product brochure). One the file is uploaded, it automatically appears in the appropriate places throughout the site.

Marketing Calendar

Among the 34 brands, there's dozens of marketing events throughout the year, as well as many promotions. The site provides an easy-to-use, private calendar that communicates the details of these events and promotions to the sales and distribution channel.

Foley required a very specialized event calendar, since different events and promotions apply to different brands, and may also be limited by state. The flexibility of Webvanta's database system enabled the site-building team to easily customize these aspects of the system to meet Foley's precise requirements.

Saving Time, Helping the Channel

The site has been a huge success for Foley. The marketing staff no longer has to spend time digging up files that salespeople and retailers need. Since all the channel partners have immediate access to whatever marketing materials they need, the materials are used more often.

Six CSS Layout Features To Look Forward To - Smashing Coding

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:37:28 GMT

Schema.org and Microdata Markups for SEO

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:13:21 GMT

Schema.org - Why You're Behind if You're Not Using It... | SEOmoz

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:10:45 GMT

Creating High-Performance Sites

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:19:37 GMT

Many factors affect the performance of a website. In this webinar, our CTO Christopher Haupt reviews all the factors and provides easy-to-follow best practices guidelines.

Do As I Say, Not As I Do: A Look At Search Engines & SEO Best Practices

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:54:40 GMT

CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:19:36 GMT

Modernizr

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:20:36 GMT

Detects what features a browser supports and adds CSS classes dynamically.

Less+ Framework | Webbyrå Norrköping Angry Creative

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:53:04 GMT

InstaCSS | Instant CSS Documentation Search

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:05:05 GMT

Designing Site Architecture and Estimating Costs

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:38:45 GMT

Lost Type Co-op

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:17:29 GMT

Pay-what-you-want type.

Creating Great Restaurant Websites at Low Cost with Webvanta's Restaurant SmartTheme

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:32:37 GMT