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BA21's first Shopification

Over the New Moon this October, BA21 launched it’s first Shopify site. The site is a great example of a simple, elegant, intentional web shop with all the features of a modern website.

Magickal Fantasy Shopified

Here are some notes on Magickal Fantasy :

  • custom SlideshowPro photo/art gallery (right from Shopify’s server)
  • custom product attributes (from the cart, I used):

<h3 class="small">2. Select a Graphic to go with your item</h3> <p><select name="attributes[graphic]" id="graphic" style="float:left"> <option>Select a graphic...</option> <optgroup label="Arabian Nights"> <option value="arabian_genie" {% if cart.attributes.graphic == "arabian_genie" %} SELECTED {% endif %}> Genie</option> ...

  • custom lightbox js class (using the updated lib rather than Shopify’s built in)
  • custom faux-three-column design with CSS / XHTML code
  • The site was fun to work on and Vision templating is an absolute JOY to code

BA21 is available for custom web shop design and development and is interested primarily in Shopify. We are however, preparing to launch 2 more eCommerce sites with non-Shopify solutions. As always we choose the right system for the right project. Interested in learning more? Contact us today.

October 20 2006, 11:54am ∞

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Tags: shopify

 

BA21 mentioned in Charlottesville Area Real Estate Weekly

Techno Tribes

Area Technology Community is a hive for learning, meeting, and working

Real Estate Weekly (note, their website needs help)

Real Estate Weekly PDF

(click for a PDF of the article)

From the article:

[...] Cameron Beers was looking to break into the technology field when he returned to Charlottesville a few years ago. He said that the Guild was continually mentioned as a way to start and he netted jobs along the way.

“It’s a very open source mentality here—share and share alike. People pass along code, people pass along connections and information very freely. The educational aspect is impressive. People offer tutorials and give very good information,” he says.

Beers recently started his own web and media publishing business called BA21 and he found the Guild to be a tremendous help in getting started. “The resources for starting my business were great,” he says. Anything from accounting to legal advice, where to find a location or employees to do what I can’t do. Without fail, somebody always shows up to provide solutions.” [...]

The article is written by Cass Cannon and is freely available in the greater Charlottesville area. Lots of other Guilders are mentioned as well.

October 3 2006, 7:06pm ∞

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Tags: press

 

Blue Oyster Spiral Fractal Zoom

From the author, Dave Kilman -

No matter how deep you go, there’s always more. This movie took quite a few days to calculate.

In 1993, when i first made a poster of the image i call “blue oyster spiral,” which is a zoom at about the 100 Billion X magnification level inside the Mandelbrot Fractal, it took 34 computers 3 days to render it. today, the same poster can be rendered on one typical PC in just a few hours.

Of course, since the Mandelbrot Fractal is infinite in nature, i can still easily find spots i want to explore that take a present day computer months to calculate.

I’m ambivalent about the fact that no computer will ever be powerful enough to let me see the infinite detail to be seen in there. On the one hand, there will always be more to see, every time i have access to more computing power. on the other, it will never be enough. oh well :)

Music: “Breakaway” by Big Pig.

Fractal: animated in much higher resolution than this with fractal extreme.

Fractal Posters available at the link above.

October 3 2006, 6:22pm ∞

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Tags: fractal video

 

C'ville Cover, How to Drink Like a Man... not a frat boy

Sept 26 – Oct 2—I’m blown up on the cover of this weeks C’ville Weekly. This was a lot of fun and one of my first times being a model. Modeling and beer go well together.

Photograph by Ross McDermott, taken at South Street Brewery. (also posted to flickr)

What do you think of the cover? Please leave a comment!

September 26 2006, 2:21pm ∞

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Tags: cville beer cover cameron

 

Conway Chamber of Commerce v2

Just a quick note to thank one of BA21’s associates for the opportunity to help with Textpattern consultation as well as PHP / MySQL coding for the:

Great design, Tracy! Let us know if there’s anything else we can do for you.

July 15 2006, 7:44pm ∞

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Tags: textpattern consultations

 

Live Search Results

Now with improved usability, the live search functionality for the weblog is provided by cbs_live_search—another great Textpattern plugin.

(via Flickr)

July 15 2006, 9:03am ∞

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Related Tags via updated tru_tags Textpattern plugin

Any now back to our regularly scheduled textpattern plugin update. Tonight’s feature is: tru_tags v1.8.

Check out the Flickr photo page for more notes.

(via Flickr)

July 15 2006, 8:05am ∞

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Tags: textpattern plugins

 

#14 - Mt. Madison, New Hampshire Sunset

I think I already posted this to the blog, but here it is again—one of my more professional photographs.

(via Flickr)

July 15 2006, 7:03am ∞

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#5 Most Popular: Home Office Workstation

With Battlestar Gallactica playing from file.

(via Flickr)

July 15 2006, 7:00am ∞

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#2 - "Mac PowerPC - $5 includes monitor, might not work"

Coming in #2, this new gem of a shot—rather gem of an old Apple PowerPC.

This guy was sitting outside at a going out of business sale for 5$.

(via Flickr)

July 15 2006, 6:58am ∞

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#1 - "Upgrades: Home Office Workstation"

Moving into the new home office. Emphasis on “office”. We’ve been planning this upgrade for some time, and today setting up my latest workstation configuration, I find happiness.

Edit: 219 views after just 2 days of posting this photo!

Edit2: Up to 367 views and now 5 fav’s! Thanks for the visit everyone!

Edit3: Up to 500 views!

Edit4: Wow, 758 views! 10 Favs!

Edit5: 1,023 views! Cool!

(via Flickr)

July 15 2006, 6:57am ∞

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Franconia Ridge -- Flickr Most Popular Series

Posting a bunch of my Flickr most popular photos+images. Hope you enjoy!

(via Flickr)

July 15 2006, 6:54am ∞

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A Small Gallery Implimentation

Helped a friend with his client’s web Gallery2.1 implementation. See the Gatski Metal gallery here. Custom theme for the Gallery 2 open source software.

July 14 2006, 7:07pm ∞

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Tags: software theme

 

The Paradox of Choice

Google TechTalks April 27, 2006 Barry Schwartz

July 13 2006, 3:20pm ∞

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Tags: google research

 

[i] analytics: July connection speed

Notice how Cable/DSL connections dominate the BA21.us connection
speed analytics. It’s interesting also to note the increase over the
past week. Almost right on a 5 9 6 10 12 10 13 scale. It’s not
including my internet connection, of course. :)

July 13 2006, 7:43am ∞

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