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Using dynamIt Portals
dynamIt loves Portal. Unlike the Aperture Science Laboratory, you will hopefully find navigation through our site easy enough without the portal gun. However, we decided to give you one anyway. During your stay here at www.dynamItTechnologies.com you will be able to jump from page to page by placing portals and stepping through them.
To place a portal: (Shift+Click and Alt+Click)
Move your mouse to the spot on the page you would like to place the portal. Then, to place the orange portal hold down the
Shift key and click the left mouse button. To place the blue portal, use Alt+Click.To walk through a portal:
Click on the portal you wish to walk through.
How to get dynamIt portals on your site
You are welcome to play around on our site as much as you’d like. But, you can take it a step farther and place our portals on your own website or blog. All of our source code is provided for download below.
To install dynamIt portals, copy the following files to your web server: portal.php, orange.png, and blue.png. In addition, you will also need to get a copy of jQuery as the dynamIt portals depend heavily on it. Please visit http://www.jquery.com for more details. Note that dynamIt Portals was developed using jQuery v1.2.3. In the download, we are supplying this version unchanged.
Once the files have been placed on your server, open portal.php and make a minor modification. On line 28 you will find:
define(HTTP_ROOT, ‘http://www.dynamItTechnologies.com/’);
You will need to replace our web address with the URL to the directory in which you have placed the portal files.
Then, you will need to place two things into every portalable surface of your website (that is, every page you wish to be reachable by dynamIt Portal). First, you will need to have an active PHP session, so if it does not already exist, place the following code at the very top of every page, before anything has been output to the browser:
<?php session_start(); ?>
Second, inside the html <head> of each page, include portal.php like so:
<?php include ‘portal.php’; ?>
That is all there is to it. Download the code by clicking the link below to get started.
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Dynamit was honored as one of the “Best Places to Work” in 2010 & 2011 by Columbus Business First newspaper and Interactive Agency of the Year. Times are even better in 2012 and we’re hiring a Web/Graphic Designer for our aggressively growing team.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting edge projects for well-known brands in a dynamic, entrepreneurial and highly creative environment. Please email resumes/cover letters and portfolio information (documents or links to online examples) to Gary Moneysmith via gmoney@dynamit.us.
A web/graphic designer on the Dynamit team will:
- Be well versed with Adobe Creative Suite: Strong knowledge of Photoshop, experience with Illustrator and InDesign.
- Have a strong understanding of Usability & Web Trends: Experience with user interface design, knowledge of best practices & examples of this in a portfolio or live site/application design. They will also be up-to-date on web trends and design tactics with examples.
- Have experience in user experience design (UXD) designing application and system interfaces. This experience is crucial for this position.
- Have Basic Programming Knowledge: We’re not looking for a developer here, but the designer should have the ability to design for web with a knowledge of the boundaries and how to design for execution by a programmer.
- Have a Strong Portfolio: We’d like to see much more web work than print.
- Be eager to learn, with a passion for design & the web. The designer should have a strong internal drive for industry knowledge and be committed to furthering the craft.
Experience is important, but personality is key. Our culture is what drives us, and we’re looking to build our team with someone who both fits and contributes to it.
The position is full time at our office in the Arena District in Columbus, Ohio. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package as well as a fun, high-energy, intellectually-stimulating work environment.
Benefits Include
- Competitive salary (compensation will be based on skills and experience)
- Fully paid medical/dental insurance for employees
- Paid parking
- Unlimited vacation time (within reason)
- Office bar + climbing wall — not recommended together
Don’t sit back. If you want to work in a fast paced work environment with great people who love what they do, apply today.
About Dynamit
Dynamit is a digital agency based in the Arena District in Columbus, Ohio. We work with clients and brands on digital initiatives that include strategy, design, user experience and development. We influence communication and commerce. Client work includes Hilton Worldwide, Charley's Grilled Subs, McGraw-Hill, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), E-Z-GO, American Electric Power (AEP), Columbus College of Art & Design and the Ohio State Medical Center (OSUMC) to name but a few.
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