Mar 08 - Apr 08

Solar Associates: www.solarassociates.net

Solar Associates is a sub project With MakeMode. jQuery is used to change the banner image and hover text according to the client's need.

One thing I don't like about online blogging application is that there is always an unsupported function the client really really wants. Yet it can be done, but not without a little bit of sweat and tears.

In a normal situation, users get to change basic things such as site name, theme, logo and slogan etc. Advanced blog application like Squarespace lets users to customise more or less everything from CSS to page templates. This is brilliant.

So what's the trick not supported in this case? The answer is... the client wants to assign different banner images to different pages or categories with specific hyperlinks and hover text, which they can easily change or add in the later stage. In Drupal way what I need to do is to simply add a block into the header region and set its visibility properly, but I can't find an easy solution like this in Squarespace.

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As a beginner of jQuery, I figured out that append(), css() and hover() may be a good direction to reach the goal. See here if you are interesting in how it works: jQuery for Solar Associates. Any comments are appreciated!