This is so cool!


:cool: I’m in total geek-girl heaven right now! I finally got the SimpleModal Contact Form working! Yay!

SMCF is is an Ajax powered modal contact form which utilizes the jQuery JavaScript library and the SimpleModal jQuery plugin.

Go ahead – click that little link that says Contact nina aoki at the bottom of the Welcome box on the right side of the home screen and see what happens! (you will need to have javascripting enabled in your browser for it to work - if you don’t have java enabled the link takes you to a static contact page set up to work with the plugin)

I know! It’s sooo cool! Now send me a message! :lol:

I’ve also added two Messenger buttons in the sidebar. One of them is supposed to show when I’m online/offline and the other adds me to your Live Messenger contacts – and since I’m running Pidgin on my Ubuntu workstation, I can message across networks and protocols! Try adding me to your contacts!

Told you I was in geek heaven! :eek:

The buttons tho are being a little funky and I can’t tell if they’re really displaying properly. On two of my computers they show up – on one other nada. So – please use my new Contact Form to tell me what you see.

Special thanks to Eric Martin for giving me a little extra direction on getting SMCF running! I’m a happy girl tonight! :razz:

The other thing which is incredibly cool is the new plugin auto-update feature in Wordpress 2.5 — the plugin page on your dashboard tells you when a new version of a plugin is available, and you can do a single-click install/update which downloads the new version right to your server/plugin folder, unzips it, deactivates the old version, removes the old version, installs the new version, then re-activates the plugin — all in under 15 seconds. Simply Amazing.

On Edit: There seems to be an issue with the contact form working/displaying properly in IE7 - thanks jade!
I’ll effort to see what’s up with that! :cry:

On Edit 2: SMCF now works with IE7! All fixed!

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jade
Posted on:
April 10, 2008 at 11:47 pm

I love your sense of humour in finding the geek in you…and I can`t seem to access your contact page from my end - a wide screen pops up with the comment box partially visible from the bottom left! For the life of me, I can`t figure it out…

I cannot claim geek-dom-ness *sigh*

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Written by:
nina aoki
Posted on:
April 10, 2008 at 11:54 pm

Hi jade!

Okay — I see what’s happening. I just tested it in Firefox on my Linux, Mac and Windows machine. Also tested in Safari - it works in all of those.

It doesn’t seem to be working in IE7 (is that what you’re running?) - I can see what it’s doing to the screen. I’ll have to email Eric about this and see if he knows what to do. I don’t have IE6 loaded on anything so I can’t test in that. Drats! :cry:

Damn Microsoft! Grr!!

Thanks for the feedback and the nice words!

nina

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nina aoki
Posted on:
April 11, 2008 at 12:21 am

@jade

All set! I had to modify some code in my header.php file which IE7 was reading improperly. I’ve just tested and it works now! Thanks! ;)

nina

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saratoga
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April 11, 2008 at 8:49 am

Hi Sweetie-

Shall I be waggish and welcome you to the world of on-blog messaging shortcuts?

I think I’ve had mine for, oh, over a year…..

:)

Seriously, I”m so happy you did this and are psyched about it.

Here’s hoping it doesn’t increase your creep quotient and create more inbound headaches!

xoxox
-saratoga

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jade
Posted on:
April 11, 2008 at 9:33 am

It’s working now!!

:-)

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larokkaku
Posted on:
April 11, 2008 at 10:46 am

three posts in one day!

whatever happened to the “lazy” part?

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nina aoki
Posted on:
April 11, 2008 at 10:56 am

saratoga,

Good morning hon! Well - yes, I saw yours and wanted one! :lol:

But - As I was playing with it last night, I decided to pull down the online/offline button for now; couple of reasons why, the creep factor being one of them, but also because I’ve never been a fan of Yahoo’s ecosystem. Since Pidgin is GTK+ and works across protocols (I believe most messenger clients are getting to that point) I figured I’d see how this works first and then decide if I want to broadcast my status globally, kwim?

Yeah! I stayed up way past my bedtime working on this! Hubby is ready to have my head too! lmao! But - you know, he understands me… so, it’s okay.

nina

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nina aoki
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April 11, 2008 at 11:00 am

Hi jade!

I know! It’s sooo cool too! Thanks for catching that so quickly for me. I usually test everything across multiple browsers and systems just to make sure things work properly - but I hadn’t got around to testing SMCF in IE7 when I posted this. Soo…. you were a big help there. Imagine - one line of code, one line! was enough to piss IE7 off. ugh! Sorry - I have this visceral hatred of all things Microsoft! :lol:

I’m glad it’s working for you now - and yes, I got your email. Check yours in a bit! Thanks!

nina

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nina aoki
Posted on:
April 11, 2008 at 11:03 am

larokkaku,

:lol: Oh honey - the ‘lazy’ in ‘lazy geisha’ is a bit of an anachronism and has a lot of subtle metaphor attached to it…. Way too much to explain right now - but it never meant ’sloth’ or any other literal definition of the word! ;)

I know! Busy girl! I took the morning off so I could sleep in a bit — (I didn’t have any calls or meetings scheduled this AM) - but I actually have to get some work done this afternoon! Tho I’ll have something new here later on I’m sure!

Thanks!

nina

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April 19, 2008 at 10:54 am

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