Selino.com
Small Portfolio
After years of having a very static site up here it became obvious that selino.com needed a major facelift both visually and functionally. Now the site is a mini-example of some of the major methods that prospective clients and managers almost always ask me about. This site is 100% hand coded without any WordPress or Drupal framework to do all the lifting.
The scrolling menu is dynamically populated from a database of thumbnails, beauty shots, and descriptions. This was done by modifying the JQuery Tools slider. I'm basically building Javascript dynamically with PHP there. When you click on a thumbnail the database is queried and the area is updated via JQuery ajax calls. Find the Snowdrift item to see how I handle failure on the data return.
Google analytics are tracked on any relevant Javascript event. People often assume that you have to have href's to track an event but there's no reason that you can't track any event in a Web 2.0 application. Given my audience, no IE6/7 users, there was no reason for a progressive enhancement approach.