Today at iStudio we are marking the launch of our latest Web site offering – Green Bin Ottawa. This has been a project a number of us having been working for the past few weeks and we are certainly pleased with the end result.
The main attraction of the Web site is the home page which features a scrollable news aggregator that pulls in data from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and site-driven news and poll items.
Now for the geeky stuff – waiting these past two paragraphs was so hard to do… 
I was involved in the template build of the site as well as working on the functionality of the home page scrolling news aggregator, which was a lot of fun. It was the first project that I utilized the jQuery Tools library with, and was really impressed. There wasn’t a whole lot of customization to the tools that I had to do (Scrollable and Overlay) besides adding a method that would poll the server for news items once the user had reached the ‘end’ of the scrollable aggregator.
Lastly, the main headers of the site are rendered using Cufon. Safe to say I’m kissing background images goodbye when it comes to creating graphical headers. Using this (Cufon) method is such a huge time saver and it is completely accessible, which is more than I can say for the old and now outdated image replacement techniques.
Editors Note:
Green Bin Ottawa was featured on the Ottawa Citizen Web site, in an article by David Reevely, on Friday, September 18th. You can read the post here:
