Eric Martin - The blog, projects and photography of Eric Martin

The September 2009 issue of JSMag is now available and I’m happy to announce that one of my photos was selected for the cover.

A modified version of this code, with extra features, is now available as a WordPress plugin: WP-Paginate The way WordPress handles post pages is to provide links to the previous posts and next posts, using previous_posts_link() and next_posts_link() respectively. When redesigning my site, I wanted to paginate the post pages to provide users with a [...]

SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) 1.2.4 includes the following changes: Upgraded SimpleModal to 1.3 Fixed the bug that was supposed to be fixed in SMCF 1.2.3 ;) Moved the JavaScript loading to the WordPress init() function Optimized smcf.js variables to reduce file-size Moved close (X) link HTML from smcf.php to smcf.js (the SimpleModal closeHTML option)

After months of design changes and WordPress theme customizations, I’m happy to introduce the latest version of EricMMartin.com! I’ve actually been working on this redesign, on again, off again, for the last year or so. Although the design has been through a number of changes, the technologies I wanted to build the site with have [...]

It has been over 2 months since I released SimpleModal 1.3 and was waiting to finish the documentation until making an official announcement. Well, days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months, but finally, the new documentation along with a new site design, are available!

FindleysLakesideResort.com wanted a new look and the ability to add and modify content easily. The site was redesigned using WordPress for the blog and content management and emAlbum Pro was used to power the image gallery. A custom WordPress theme was built along with jQuery for menu animations. Max Williams designed the logo and provided [...]

SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) is an Ajax powered modal contact form plugin for WordPress. SMCF utilizes the jQuery JavaScript library and the SimpleModal jQuery plugin. SMCF includes built-in security features that fight spam without having to rely on CAPTCHA (the usability killer). Add some interest and flair to your site with SMCF! Download Project Page

SimpleModal is a lightweight jQuery plugin that provides a simple interface for creating a modal dialog. The goal of SimpleModal is to provide developers with a cross-browser overlay and container that will be populated with data provided to SimpleModal. SimpleModal has been used on a number of high-profile sites such as: Woot.com, Tivo.com, USAToday.com, Monster.com, [...]