Shoreland Motel on Bagnell Dam
Perched atop scenic Bagnell Dam, the one that started filling up Lake of the Ozarks a whole lot of years ago, Kenny at Shoreland needed a little content update help.
He had moved his site from a former hosting service to godaddy. In the process the site had been zipped into an archive and wrapped and pointed until it was difficult to figure out what was going on. For site visitors, for Kenny, for me.
After better than a week of trying to convince him he needed a full featured content management system, he finally convinced me to just take look at the problem. I told him if I could work at the raw html level in godaddy I would try to figure it out.
Well now, a couple of hours later, his site is a whole lot cleaner than it was. He has a serviceable billboard presence on the Web. Doing copy and paste once for each page to build a common menu structure is a reminder of why a content management system is so much better. Especially with all the funky CSS and javascript that goes into this one.
It wouldn't take very many rounds of touch ups like this before it would have been better to go to a full fledged CMS up front. It may be a pay me now or pay me later scenario, time will tell.
In the meantime it was a fun opportunity to do a little work for Kenny!
A very unique atmosphere for business lodging with clean comfortable rooms at unbeatable rates weekdays during the off-season.
Very intriguing to me, how users can change the virtual interface in real time to suit their needs. Web 2.0 started it, HTML5 embraces it. Signs of a fifth generation information technology where users will change the environment to suit their needs in real time.
Point, click, boom! You just blew up the HTML canvas right where you were pointing. The canvas in this instance is an animated movie.
A neat way for users to interact with the virtual environment using the html5 Canvas tag. Demo by the folks at craftymind.com. Don't worry, the video will slowly re-assemble as it progresses. See the video in action here.. http://craftymind.com/factory/html5video/CanvasVideo.html
Recommended for the latest Webkit browsers only, tested and works great with Safari 4.0.5 on a Mac. Google Chrome is another webkit browser option.
Update Feb 2011: Almost a year has passed, where are the developers? All in iOS?
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Video from Big Buck Bunny
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Video from Big Buck Bunny
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Video from Big Buck Bunny
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