Jake Rutter

jQuery Highlight Navigation Menu v.02 Script

Jake Rutter — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:49:18 +0000

I have found a simpler way to add class=”selected” to any navigation menu by checking your URL path against links on the page. I’ve only tested this with page slugs in wordpress. But it works very nicely. // Highlight Tab v.02 by Jake Rutter // Website: http://www.onerutter.com // Feel free to use and adapt, please just give credit [...]

Screencast: Optimizing Page Load with YSlow for Firebug

Jake Rutter — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:06:14 +0000

I’m going to try something new, Screencasts! I have found Screen casts are a great way to train clients and its also a great way to share knowledge of things I have learned. This is my first screencast, so please bear with me! I recently stumbled across YSlow and have been impressed ever since, check out [...]

How to redirect non-WWW traffic to WWW using Mod Rewrite

Jake Rutter — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:16:48 +0000

If you are looking to send people to www.yourdomain.com, when they type in yourdomain.com then you can use mod rewrite in Apache to get this done for you. Use the code below in your .htaccess file: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

CSS Grid Frameworks - The What/When/Why/How

Jake Rutter — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:57:19 +0000

CSS Grid Frameworks such as Blueprint and 960 Grid System have been getting more popular. I recently download a wordpress theme that was built with 960gs and I was delighted with how easy it was to use. I’ve always been a huge fan of building my own css, but being organized and separating the stylesheets [...]

jQuery Image Cloning Script

Jake Rutter — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:57:51 +0000

I recently ran into an issue at work where we have been spending countless hours making 6 and 12 bottle shots by hand in Photoshop. We would take one bottle and copy/clone it over 6 or 12 times, then save and resize the image for the web. It became so repetitive that I created a [...]

JS Conf 2009

Jake Rutter — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:47:25 +0000

Last weekend I attended JS Conf 2009 in Washington D.C. with a good friend of mine, we actually brought our wives too. The plan was to attend the conference while our wives saw the sites and toured the town. We couldnt have asked for better weather, all 3 days the temperatures were 80-90 and not [...]

New at onerutter.com - The Lab

Jake Rutter — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:22:17 +0000

I have started doing more little personal projects for fun, the lab will be a place where I can show off these little projects. I have an ongoing list of about 10 ideas for websites that I want to build, plus about 20 domains. I have recently starting learning code igniter which is a php [...]

5 Ways to Improve SEO with WordPress

Jake Rutter — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:35:55 +0000

I have been building websites with WordPress for about for a few years now, I started with v1.0 and have made my way up to the latest v2.7. I started with this blog, then branched out to blogs for clients, and eventually I started creating some sites in WP and using it more as a [...]

Use Twitter Search to find Freelance Web Jobs

Jake Rutter — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:36:04 +0000

Twitter recently updated their search feature, you can view it at http://search.twitter.com. It works pretty well, just type in your search terms and you will be given the latest tweets that match your terms. I found today that it can be a great tool to find freelance jobs, you can use a similar query to find [...]

Amazon.com’s Big Month

Jake Rutter — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:54:32 +0000

I read last week from a NY Times article that despite the recession Amazon.com had a break through month with 6.3 million orders on December 15th, which translates to 73 items each second. Last year they had 5.4 million orders on December 10th. Amazon.com has really transformed their business, from selling their own inventory, to [...]

jQuery Highlight Navigation Menu v.01 Script

Jake Rutter — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:55:46 +0000

A few months ago, I created a little script using the jQuery library which will add class=”current” to tabs, allowing you to highlight your menu for you users. Its pretty basic, but it searches the URL, if it finds a match with the link that was clicked - then it add’s class=”current” to that particular [...]

Appcelerator Titanium - The Future of Open Souce RIA

Jake Rutter — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:06:31 +0000

Yesterday, I received an email from Appcelerator, informing me of a new product of theirs called Titanium. Appcelerator Titanium is an open source RIA platform for developer desktop web apps, similar to the Adobe AIR platform, in that it uses standard, common web languages such as html, css, and javascript. That is what caught my [...]

Helpful Magento Tutorials from the Web

Jake Rutter — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:33:59 +0000

Magento Tutorials Im compiling a list of the best tutorials from the web for Magento. Magento Official Documentation: Screencasts Magento User Guide Designers Guide Knowledge Base Webinar Archive Magento Forums Wiki If after searching through all of these resources on the Magento Site and you still can find what you are looking for, then check out some of the tutorials below. The best thing [...]

Magento: Getting Table Rates to work with v1.1.6

Jake Rutter — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:50:26 +0000

Getting Table Rates to work with v1.1.6 was trivial. Magento has a great tool built-in for uploading a spread-sheet that contains your table rates. I tried this about 3-4 times before realizing that there must be a bug after seeing the words “Sorry, no quotes are available for this order at this time.” displayed on [...]

Magento: Custom Category Images Listing Block Tutorial

Jake Rutter — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:32:03 +0000

Recently, I just finished coding out a website for a client in Magento. You can view the site at www.3graces.com, it was a full switch from some old legacy asp shopping cart to Magento. Im really happy with the way things turned out and the client is too, Magento just has so many wonderful features [...]

Antipodr.com - Find your exact location on the other side of the world

Jake Rutter — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:24:34 +0000

My friend and I have decided to join forces to start building little apps that are fun and easy. Our first app was a google maps mashup. Put in your location, whether it be zip code or address and state and we will map out for you where you are on the other side of [...]

Magento: How to use the Import/Export Tool

Jake Rutter — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:55:55 +0000

The import/export tool is very useful within Magento. Being that there is limited documentation on the topic, I thought I would add my .02. Basically you can use the import/export tool to do mass imports of products. It makes it much easier if you would like to add 50 products all at once, you would just [...]

An Introduction to Magento: Open Source Ecommerce

Jake Rutter — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:26:46 +0000

I have been learning Magento for the past few months, for a client’s website that I have been working on. Its a pretty robust Open Source Ecommerce plaform that is built on the Zend PHP Framework. At first, it was rather daunting trying to find my way around the software - its pretty robust and [...]

Back in Google - Out of the Sandbox Finally!

Jake Rutter — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:48:13 +0000

Ah Finally, after about 3 months of being in the Sandbox for Google Search Results, Im out. I was in the sandbox as result of my wordpress install being hacked and hackers using SQL injection to place spam text in my posts. I was getting 200-300 uniques a day, which dropped to about 5-10 uniques [...]