Jason Zerbe’s logbook

Today I finished up a major contract coding job today for this clothing company called Hullabaloo Apparel. They create very unique designs and then print them on various clothing items. Their idea of clothing is not for quick laughs or in-crowd designs (like most online clothing shops), but universally sweet designs. From the various things I’ve heard from Erik and Yuriah (the co-founders), they have already been doing quite well, and needed a web-presence to expand their market and for explaining their brand. Which is where I came in.

About two and a half weeks ago, after showing Yuriah a few tricks with his Mac, he asked me if I would be up for doing the website for Hullabaloo Apparel. They needed a website up asap. So I cracked out various designs from what Yuri described to me and settled on the fourth design in a series of high-contrast xhtml/css designs I put together.

So I jammed away this past week, after getting approval, and am now done.

A couple of things I wanted to write down:

1. PayPal has an integrated shopping cart that can take in many different variables (such as sizes)
2. PayPal has integrated shipping calculators (for various locales) when a user checks out
3. Instant Payment Notification works best for subscriptions and individual (digital service) items; it looks best to have the IPN script running on a SSL host
4. It is possible to give site owners access to Google Analytics on the fly, by setting up a Google account with an email of your choice; and then use said account via an auto-login script
5. Submitting a form via a JavaScript link is done like so (where “monkey” is the name of the form. <form name=”monkey”></form>: <a href="javascript:document.monkey.submit();">Submit Form "Monkey"</a>

Business, Web google, Hullabaloo

I am going to attempt to write a story on various notable web pages that I viewed this week in case you, the reader wants to follow in my footsteps.

After finishing up with my math homework, I turned on my laptop. “Come on, you can do it,” I cooed to my computer as Vista finally loaded in my desktop after 3 minutes. I had been doing some problems related to money, and after finding Google Will Eat Itself the night before (based off of an irreverent email ;-p), I decided to dig a bit deeper. I didn’t want to spend too much time on the subject, but I did find a bit About those so called “Bots”. Needless to say, I didn’t want some Google tech, getting nervous about my search queries so I decided to quit for now …. muahaha. ¡Guau! Sin embargo.

“And he nails the upper-cut! The crowd is going wild!”

“But Tim, what crowd?”

“Oh, that’s right we are in your basement.”

Surprisingly enough, such conversations can occur in the homes of seemingly mild-mannered cubicle warriors.

Later that night, I had to arrange driving instructions for my dad, based off of the MN/DOT Highway Webcams. All of a sudden I’m told to take a look, I never knew that the DOT had such a network in place. Maybe I should tap that …. api sometime.

Web fight club, google