Really liking Ben and Eric at www.svwh.host. Once they had created the Ubuntu 14 instance, I installed nginx, which was like two terminal commands: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nginx Then the nginx welcome page came up at with the IP address in the browser. Thanks again, Digital Ocean. Configured Name Cheap, the registrar, … Continued
I had made so many updates – well – not that terribly many – but it seemed prudent to just check out the basic ofn_deployment Ansible script, transfer in my vars.yml file and see what happened. I had named the location of our Localization repository wrong so fixed that. Now Ansible and Vagrant run through … Continued
So we finally have a server and a team for OFN US instance. I Git rebased the latest updates to master ofn_deployment repository on top of my fork. First I had forgotten to install Ansible dependencies: ansible-galaxy install -r install_roles.yml There was a little misspelling needed fixing, i10n_repo was l10n_repo. Now having an error on … Continued
So we are thinking we want our own color pallet for a new site built using the Material Design Lite framework. Explored a bunch of links: http://knizia.biz/mcg/#/ https://github.com/mbitson/mcg https://angular-md-color.com/#/ http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/ http://www.materialpalette.com http://materialdesignblog.com/tools-for-creating-brilliant-material-design-color-pallets/ http://zavoloklom.github.io/material-design-color-palette/#custom http://mdlhut.com/2015/08/creating-an-mdl-theme/ Asked on SO: I’d like to use a “customized version” of a Material Design Lite “theme”. MDL is basically the CSS … Continued
Pricing can be hard to determine. From this blog: A typical breakdown of expenses required to get up and running might look something like this: Domain: $12/year Hosting: $10/month – $30/month Premium Theme: $50-$200 Premium Plugins: $15-$200 (each; some are one-time purchases, others are monthly/annual licenses.) Rough Totals: $200-$1,000+ You could also be a domain … Continued
Sara Soueidan Also use Source Sets and Size parameter for images. Image Media Queries: Device Pixel Ratio explained on SO. CSS Tricks
On the URU site we’ve been using the mz-mindbody-api plugin to pull in class, student, teacher details from Mindbody’s SOAP API. But there were a few of significant limitations: There wasn’t a way to “share” classes or teacher on social media There wasn’t a way for search engines to index the details The search function … Continued
Adding a new video on the streaming Yoga site after a while, I had mis-configured something in the Elastic Transcoder settings and was getting an error in the JW Player instance: cannot load m3u8 no levels to play. I tried updating the contents of the index.m3u8 file that was supposed to concatenate all of the … Continued
Static Web Sites without a database? Had to add the following code to my ~/.bash_profile to make Jekyll work on OS X: export PATH=$(brew –prefix ruby)/bin:$PATH Excited about the prospect of static site generation – trying it for Cobra Posse site. Might look at some of these themes from a developer on the Ruby list. … Continued
Still getting my bearings with Bootstrap 3, but Materializr is based on Material Design, which is a really well-developed system and philosophy developed by Google – I think for App development for the Android – that uses a layered, flat approach to interface design.