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Posted by Michael Coyne at 01:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Would you like to add dynamic sea turtle content to your site?

I just happened across an old post (from 2004!) where I promised to make little widgets available that would allow other web site owners to easily add dynamic sea turtle content from seaturtle.org to their own site.

At the time I had created a small javascript image library widget. I've just updated it so that it is user configureable. Simply copy the code below and add it to your own web page and you will get a browser with the latest uploads to the seaturtle.org Image Library.

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
<!--
//set to desired width of photo widget
var slidewidth=130
//set to desired height of photo widget
var slideheight=150
//set to desired background color of photo widget
var slidebgcolor='#CCFFCC'
//set to desired delay between image rotations (in milliseconds)
var slidedelay=6000
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://www.seaturtle.org/jslib/imagelib.js">
</script>

Which will look something like this:

Stay tuned, more to come...

Posted by Michael Coyne at 02:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey

Posted by Michael Coyne at 11:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Are you interested in knowing what kind of tools and resources are under development?

Check out seaturtle.org Labs

You will find a number of projects, big and small, that I am working on for inclusion in seaturtle.org. Have a look and contribute by providing feedback.

But you have to be geeky enough to be reading this blog in the first place :)

Posted by Michael Coyne at 12:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

SEATURTLE.ORG is completely developed and runs on Apple hardware. I find this to be a highly efficient and cost effective way to work. Mostly because of the Unix underpinnings of OS X, which gives me access to a huge world of free and powerful software.

However, since going solo with SEATURTLE.ORG I no longer have access to Windows boxes, and since Micro$oft no longer develops Internet Exploder for the Mac, I have no way of testing pages, tools and resources in IE. Since most people on the internet are (unfortunately) using IE, this presents a bit of a problem with some of the new advanced features that I am trying to develop (Come on, people! Please switch to Firefox!). Perhaps the most difficult aspect of all of the things I do is coding around all of the idiosyncrasies in IE. Just try searching for "idiosyncrasy internet explorer" on Google for a sample of what I am talking about.

If you or your organization has a surplus Windoze box (preferably a laptop for space considerations), and more importantly, can spare a licensed copy of Micro$oft Windows XP, it would go a long way toward supporting development of resources on SEATURTLE.ORG, and help me ensure that everything functions properly for all users. We don't need much, just something powerful enough to run the latest versions of Internet Exploder.

Posted by Michael Coyne at 11:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)