Jarrod Rathjen's Portfolio

Europe Travel Map

Other Design Inspiration

Thursday, October 01, 2009 | Permalink

So, during my recent eurotrip I started thinking about ways of jotting down everywhere I had been on my adventures, tracking my travels and including the means of transport, cost, distance traveled and more! I’m not normally a graphs and charts nerd, but I was also keen to graph the temperature from Melbourne, compared to all the exotic destinations I traveled too. I’ve done a print piece for my wall, check it out.

Life’s Simple Pleasures

Design Inspiration Web design Web development HTML + CSS JavaScript

Monday, January 05, 2009 | Permalink

I have recently developed a site as a personal project to experiment with CSS3 and few javascript items.

Life’s Simple Pleasures has a scrolling list of exactly that, simple pleasures and moments in life that bring happiness and smiles to our faces. Visitors are also able to submit their own simple pleasures to the site.

I have used various CSS3 techniques such as rounded corners, opacity and drop shadows on the site - meaning that the better your browser is, the better the site will look – as well as the fact that the CSS does not validate.

The site has a simple javascript marquee scroller and a toggling sliding content area, as well as a more complex AJAX form that handles the simple pleasure submissions and contact form.

Credits for the site include the AJAX form, from dustindiaz.com as well as the Marquee from Dynamic Drive, dynamicdrive.

lifes-simple-pleasures.com