http://www.chrisesler.com Web Design, Book Design & Illustration Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:07:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well I've been rather obsessed lately with getting mootools running in a server-side environment. I've had some minimal experience with Helma, but I decided to try and build my own. At this point its rather simple, but I have managed to initiate the jetty webserver with mootools and to write ... http://www.chrisesler.com/2007/12/26/introducing-mooserver-server-side-mootools-web-framework/ Been working on a new Dibolmi.com after some morrocan hackers decided to deface my website due to some vulnerabilities in the portfolio software I was using at the time. Wow what a mouthful. Anyways, I've been learning Ruby on Rails, so thought I would take this as an opportunity to ... http://www.chrisesler.com/2007/06/02/new-dibolmicom-on-rails/ I'm currently working on a mootools javascript fisheye dock menu example. You can see the fisheye example here: http://www.chrisesler.com/mootools/fisheye/index.php. I've taken some inspiration by the fisheye script developed by John Pennypacker at http://www.pennypacker.net as well as some help I got from Inviz (from mootools fame). The script is still a ... http://www.chrisesler.com/2006/12/15/mootools-javascript-fisheye-dock-menu-example/ It seems some of my javascript experiments with Mootools inspired (in part) the new joomlaOS theme (see post). Thats a first for me! Guess I will still keep hacking away at mootools to come up with more useful javascript examples! Go see my current Mootools examples. http://www.chrisesler.com/2006/11/10/joomlaos/ I originally posted this on the freewebsfarms.com forum.Mootools is the latest incarnation from the Mad4Milk team who brought us MooFX javascript library and Mooglets. Mootools takes the best from prototype and MooFX and makes one lean and powerful little javascript library to do some amazing effects. I plan on posting ... http://www.chrisesler.com/2006/10/04/mootools-javascript-draggable-window-example/ I stated in my last post I was going to redo my website in more detail. I'm trying to follow the direction setforth by Kelly Goto's book "Web Redesign 2.0" - which is a great book by the way.I've gotten so far as to trying to layout and simplify the ... http://www.chrisesler.com/2006/08/01/progress-of-new-website/ First and foremost I like to see myself as an artist. And with that I tend to always reinvent myself and my website which, more or less, is a reflection of me. I'm also pretty heavy into freelance work, so time for myself is limited when I'm trying to get ... http://www.chrisesler.com/2006/07/19/problems-being-a-web-designer/ I enjoy book cover design. Over the years I've managed to come in contact with various authors, and some I try to write somewhat regularly. Dyanne Davis is one of the authors I've designed covers for and she asked if she could interview me about how I got into book ... http://www.chrisesler.com/2006/05/23/interview-by-author-dyanne-davis/ I don't know how else to get it out to people other than pushing things really hard about the fact that I'm a book cover designer. I've pretty much split my website into two websites now. Dibolmi.com is my new website tht is focused more strictly on book cover design ... http://www.chrisesler.com/2006/05/22/im-a-book-cover-designer-among-other-things/ I do a lot of book cover designs for Genesis Press who distributes through Kensington Publishing Group. I recently did a major design run of about 30 books for for their 2006-2007 market and trade books. According to my contact at Genesis Press, "we (Genesis) received a standing applause for ... http://www.chrisesler.com/2006/04/26/praise-for-my-book-designs/