Philosophy: I have to come clean on this one... I didn't really have much of
a philosophy when I made this. Erick Knepp left me without a boss for two days
so I just went nuts on the only thing he told me to work on. Looking back, I can
probably fake a philosophy, though...
Philosophy: Search results are soooo plain text!! When the opportunity arises to
kick it up a notch, one probably should! Here's an example of me doing just that!
Using another "cheap" trick, I took a two-tone PSD file of our school's over-head map,
cut out each building that had a lab in it, made a highlighted version, and then using
negative margins I placed the highlighted cut-outs ontop of the blank two-tone map. If
the search results included a building, I ran a script that showed all applicable buildings.
Very easy concept - only took two 4hr shifts to execute, and the result is much fancier looking
than a list of links. Click the image to see a real working version hosted at Susqu.edu! (I
would syndicate it, but it uses a very fat access database (get out, a fat access database?!))
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Dynamic Image Drawing
