http://www.imaputz.com/uportal uportal theme and skin development Wed, 09 Feb 2005 05:11:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Last week I updated the Bullet Resistant Scrollable Table. It now includes some form elements to test scrolling and also has some Javascript to hide SELECT elements in Window IE 5.x/6.x http://www.imaputz.com/uportal/index.php?p=20 I've had this sitting around for awhile now. Originally I was going to write up an article describing this technique, but that fell on the wayside. Anyways, I present to the Web Development world: Pure CSS Scrollable Table with Fixed Header - The Big Four Version and The Bullet Resistant Version This ... http://www.imaputz.com/uportal/index.php?p=18 While I things may seem idle here, I've actually developed a rather interesting CSS technique and am hoping to get an article published on it. Will post an update when possible. Development on integratedModes has been painfully slow for the past 2 weeks. I recieved a few comments regarding Alpha 2, ... http://www.imaputz.com/uportal/index.php?p=17 I've posted a zip distribution of inductiveModes Developer Alpha 2. It is still through a quick-start distribution, but it can now be deploy from source. I don't have instructions for registering the theme into another DB, so please continue using the included HSQL script. A changelog and TODO list has ... http://www.imaputz.com/uportal/index.php?p=16 Sakai has just made available their first public release. I messed around with their online demo, appears that they are using some code from my Nested DIVs theme (and skins). Nice! They removed most of the eye-candy DIV markup used for the channels, and seem to be going with a minimalist ... http://www.imaputz.com/uportal/index.php?p=15 A screenshot of skin dubbed the "University of Nested DIVs" is posted. Will be cleaning up some code, write up a changelog, and hopefully post a new alpha release within a week or two. One last additional feature to the theme (skin) is the ability to define custom icons per tab. ... http://www.imaputz.com/uportal/index.php?p=14 The skin for new theme is just about finished. The hard part will be modifying the default channels and the preferences section. This is what makes a complete theme. No ETA on completion for this part. What's new thus far in the theme Introduction of unobtrusive JavaScript (UJS). Any feature enhanced with ... http://www.imaputz.com/uportal/index.php?p=6 I've posted a developer alpha in quick-start distribution. It's based off a uPortal 2.3.2 distro. This alpha release introduces some unobtrusive javascript for increased client-side interaction. Try the Minimize/Maximize and Focus controls. I haven't tested it with a wide set of browser yet, and this is only a couple of ... http://www.imaputz.com/uportal/index.php?p=7 Progress on the theme update has been steady for the past two nights. I've made several nice usability enhancements that increase uPortal's "perceived" speed while reducing un-necessary server load. There's one more enhancement in the works, but it's giving me problems right now. I'd would like to thank Patty Gertz and ... http://www.imaputz.com/uportal/index.php?p=8 If you didn't know by now, I left Virginia Tech near the end of March. I traveled ~3000 miles to start working at a new position located in Bellevue, WA. I live a stone shot away from Microsoft and a dollar short of Seattle. I'm settling nicely and am ready ... http://www.imaputz.com/uportal/index.php?p=10