Thursday, February 28, 2008

ajax auto-horntootin

I'm just putting the finishing touches on my first website that uses Ajax. Behold! MagicHatFilms.com! If anyone's interested in the code to make those sexy dis/appearing sections, I can post the basic template that Roger hooked up, and then the ins and outs of applying it to some real content.

I build this website for my homie Justin, who as you can see, has some badass mothafuckin camera gear. He's also one of my best friends out here, a burner, our age, and a really good filmmaker - you can see his stuff on the site. Y'all would love this guy. Course, it's hard to swing Director as a day job when you're first starting out. So he applied for a low-interest arts loan of some kind, to the tune of 20k or so, and got it! Used that money to buy all the gear, and only has to rent it out a few days a month to make his payments, and that's with the lowest prices in town. He gets to work with lots of indie filmmakers, he owns his own shit, and now he's got a sick website. Pretty sweet gig if you ask me.

2 comments:

bearvsgriffin said...

perhaps i'm missing a browser component. I see no transitions or codage.

I click on each button and it goes to the next page. Straight up HTML stylie.

Nice vids, BTW. If he was out here it would be very tempting to rent some sweet gear for a good cause

Squidelephant said...

oh naw, you gotta click on the ARROWS next to the components of the various rental packages. then the sections just pop out and back. but if you didn't get that intuitively, then I need to improve the interface. maybe just a lil' "click for more" by the arrows. peep it.

And those vids ain't EVEN with his new HD shit, those are just examples of his directing and camera work. that larken girl is cool as shit, btw, she'd totally party at the Sweet.