Lifestream re-design – brendanserashriar.com
Dec 16, 2009Recently I decided to re-design brendanserashriar.com a.k.a. Lifestream. Lifestreaming is a continual broadcast of events in a person’s life through digital media. the idea was to stream all my social network feeds in one place. I decided to this based on a presentation at WordCamp Montreal by Erin Blaskie.
However, after much deliberation I have temporarily disabled the Lifestream feature, and decided to go with a portal page instead. I was inspired by quite a few one page sites. Check out One Page Love, its a great showcase!
The making of
The site is running on the current version of WordPress, yes I know, it’s probably over kill for a one pager, but you never know where it will grow from there.
One of the coolest features of this new design is the tool tips over the social icons. I know it’s nothing new but I really love this package I stumbled upon, jQueryTOOLS by Flowplayer.
Credit where credit is due
Thanks to evablue for the awesome photo of me from WordCamp Montreal! The social icons are a free icon pack from ThinkDesign.
Future work
I have plans to renovate dropthedigibomb and digibombinc as well…who knows what the future will bring!
Hey Brendan,
Best ToolTip for jquery ever.
http://craigsworks.com/projects/qtip/
Use it.
@Paul why is qtip better?
It’s got to be one of the cleanest, and semantic plugins I’ve used for qtips ever.
The guy who runs it is awesome, updates, and provides consistent free support.
And it’s multifunctional. can use it for all sorts of things, and he’s even integrated a modal box function.
So you can use tooltips, notices, and lightboxes all from one lightweight script of awesomeness.