There is a great guide to parameters available at the Kissmetrics Blog. Also, Google provides a URL builder that formats URLs [...]]]> To get a better sense of how visitors find and travel through a website I’ve been building, I’ve added a few Google Analytics events & parameters to parse out traffic.

There is a great guide to parameters available at the Kissmetrics Blog. Also, Google provides a URL builder that formats URLs appropriately for campaign tracking.

Color Oracle is a free color blindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux. It takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real [...]]]> Super handy, free tool for reviewing any screen design to test against common color blind impairments. Thanks to Bernhard Jenny for sharing the work. From the website:

Color Oracle is a free color blindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux. It takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real time what people with common color vision impairments will see.

http://colororacle.org/

The concept is crisp and elegant, I wanted to figure out how to accomplish it. [...]]]> I visited BigStove.com’s headquarters yesterday and, when talking about video streaming, was introduced to the beautiful Path.com homepage. The webpage has a background video that is sized correctly for any screen and doesn’t rely on FLASH or javascript to play.

The concept is crisp and elegant, I wanted to figure out how to accomplish it. The answer lies in html5′s new video tag. It took an hour or so to get the code to work in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. I relied entirely on the work at CamenDesign.com and RobWashOnline.com.

My demo includes an autoplay attribute and a loop attribute, making a movie of the longest escalator in the world. I ran into some looping trouble with Safari and Firefox, so ended up using a javascript snippet (onended=”this.play()”) within the video tag to get it to run continuously.

Full-size demo at http://www.jacdehaan.com/films/escalator/

For the title and credit, I borrowed some CSS3 from Nikesh.me.

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