JasonThings
I'm Jason Rhodes, a designer and webmaker in Baltimore, MD. You could say I'm obsessed with a kid named Malcolm, his hot mom, Alton Brown recipes, pale ale microbrews, and awkward family comedies.
A lot of my fellow alumni are responding to this with sadness, but also with a reaffirmation about what makes Penn State great. I understand why, but I disagree with it. Our university spent years trying to duck this shame; I think it’s our duty now to wear it for a time.
Keep reading →So at Johns Hopkins, we have to review changes on our production servers pretty often, and aren’t sure if a change didn’t make it or if it’s being obscured by the long production cache. A quick way to fix this is to just append a query string at the end of the URL, like this: [...]
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Time for a little honesty: I can’t decide if I actually care about attending Brooklyn Beta or if I just want to be thought of as someone cool enough to be found at a conference that gathers in a place called The Invisible Dog. It’s probably a little of both.
Keep reading →Lots of talk about responsive design, one web, and the mobile context these days. Like everyone else, it seems, I wanted to get my own thoughts down on the subject. I’ll probably be editing and adapting this article as I keep thinking about it over the next few weeks.
Keep reading →I really hate blog posts about blogging, so I’ll keep this really short.
Inspired by Chris Shiflett’s plea for more blogging, along with some really interesting conversations I’ve been having, I’m pledging to figure out a way to write more.
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Mike Brenner and Myke Nahorniak built this new directory for Baltimore tech folks. Mike asked me to help build a WordPress plugin to connect people to meetups and startups and vice versa.
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This network of church missionary blogs is built using WordPress 3.0′s Multisite functionality, as well as a custom-built YouTube manager plugin that allows users to upload and manage their videos from within the WordPress admin. It’s also a partially responsive design.
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I originally designed this site for Habitat for Humanity to be built in a custom PHP content management system. After building the custom CMS and turning it over, WordPress 3.0 launched. It was the perfect long-term solution for them so I am moving their site into WordPress 3 now.
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Gilman Hall, an iconic building on the JHU Homewood campus, reopened this fall. Our team came up with a concept for telling the story of Gilman Hall in 95 scenes. I built a responsive, flexible grid of images and videos to showcase the 95 scenes in a unique, user-friendly way.
Keep reading →Exit polls indicated most voters will be content with what they’ve got coming to them as long as they see sharp reductions in taxes, health care costs, home foreclosures, economic regulation, unemployment, and the national debt by the time the 112th Congress is halfway through its first legislative session.
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