http://kb.ottodigital.com/blog Knowledge Base Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:40:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here are just a few DOM swizzling code snippets I found on my hard drive. I used them for Yahoo store implementations and I decided to place them here so I wont lose them. Basically, this allows you to take a div tag that has an ID as an attribute and ... http://kb.ottodigital.com/blog/?p=53 This deck is used for discovery calls for new Quickstart clients. Very handy, and includes some best practices. discovery_call_slide_deck http://kb.ottodigital.com/blog/?p=52 GMAC public case study This case study is public and can be shared around the world! Great work Joel. http://kb.ottodigital.com/blog/?p=50 Since we're revising the RFI, I thought I would post the old stuff: * two versions of the RFI we currently in play 20080626_otto_freshpair_rfi 20080314_otto_rfi * some key questions we discussed during our offiste (some of which may be better to ask in the course of prepping for a brainstroming session) 20080723_mk_topquestions http://kb.ottodigital.com/blog/?p=45 otto-how-it-works-a_b_c-layout-test-results-summary-07222008 Hi OTTO, So here's a deck where I incorporate Site Catalyst data in a Results Deck for Gotvmail. Background: - The test was a page layout (A/B/C) and Gotvmail went against Omniture guidelines and actually named the new page recipes to correspond with the Recipe that it was a part of so it ... http://kb.ottodigital.com/blog/?p=43 Peter Callahan's OTTO Digital Offsite presentation, July 2008. http://kb.ottodigital.com/blog/?p=40 This is the Weight Watchers Engagement Deck that I created with Kripa and Michael. The client appreciated having background information, traffic sources, brainstorm ideas and wireframes consolidated into one deck. I will update later once we have added the final recipes and test results into the deck. The information included will ... http://kb.ottodigital.com/blog/?p=35 I took what Step Change did, and adjusted their code to make it look like this: Here is a link to the actual page example I have hosted on our ottoteam server: http://www.ottoteam.com/jfavre34/testMagazines.html You can see how to scroll through the magazines on the hero image there. The OTTO Dev team ... http://kb.ottodigital.com/blog/?p=37 This bit of code reads a query string contained in the URL of a page.  This is useful to pass values into hosted flows or other pages. function gup( name ) { name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]"); var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^&#]*)"; var regex = new RegExp( regexS ); var results = regex.exec( window.location.href ... http://kb.ottodigital.com/blog/?p=34 This is a link to all the sites I used to setup my computer to run Ruby on Rails. Rails is the language we use for all of our hosted flow sites. It is easy to develop in and makes for quick application builds. Intalling mysql on leopard http://hivelogic.com/articles/2007/11/installing-mysql-on-mac-os-x Setting up RoR ... http://kb.ottodigital.com/blog/?p=32