Emerging Technologies

March 18, 2015 by jason

It certainly has been a while since I've updated anything on this site, and a lot has changed in that time. I'm not really a website builder / web developer any more. At least not in the way I used to see myself. The freelancing version of me was focused on creating sites on open platform content management systems. I was really into Drupal (still sort of am) and thought it was the way of the future. Well times they have been changin'.

Custom Scroller with 'Snap Points' using jQuery and jScrollPane

June 22, 2012 by jason

A customer requested a custom content scroller that would showcase a grid of products on a single page. Unlike a typical scroller, they wanted horizontal only scrolling and the addition of "prev" and "next" links to advance the scroller one product column at a time. The challenge came from a user interface constraint that I imposed myself: I wanted to add "snap points" to the scroller.