Today some members of BSAPR attended the AAF-FW luncheon featuring Christi McNeill, Emerging Media Strategy Specialist at Southwest Airlines.

First of all, kudos to Christi – great presentation, great presenter, great organization, great handle on the social media world!

While Christie covered many important points, one especially struck me:

“Tweet as often as you eat.”

You don’t eat 30+ times a day—I don’t think the HHS would recommend it – so, don’t tweet that often either.  If you tweet/eat three to five times a day your tweets/food are bound to be more valuable/nutritional.

Your followers are looking for value – information they care about and will actually use.

On another note: Sara, our awesome VP, was inducted to the board of AAF-FW today. Smartest decision they’ve ever made.

Cheers to my first blog post, well second if you count the Santa hat.
~Kristin

decodering:

Setting a Google Map as the Background of your Web Site

So the other day I was Googling ways to “set a Google map as the background of your site” with little luck at all on finding a good solution. So I decided to create one using CSS properties and utilizing the z-index/absolute positioning of elements.

To get an idea of what I did, visit: http://wadehammes.com/dewey-beach/

I shared this on my personal blog, but I thought this was so interesting I thought I would share this little nugget of goodness with you folks as well. I’ve seen some site designs that have implemented interactive maps on their about pages, but this implementation seems like something that would be accessible to front-end-developers without too much headache.

This could be advantageous for business to consumer companies wanting to share franchise locations, or show off their location in the region in a fun way. The applications could turn into some very aesthetic web design.

-Alex

One of the cool thing of CSS3 is that you can style even further your webdesign with customized fonts. i’ve been playing with this all day on this place and if all went fine for Chrome and Safari I spent hours struggling with the stupid Fox.

Read the rest of his article here

If you read further in the article, the author mentions the root of his frustrations with firefox and @font-face support (custom font embedding): blocked cross-domain support. Yes, firefox has an idiotic security measure that keeps you from embedding fonts from another domain as well as other certain files. It’s supposed to protect stealing fonts and hotlinking, but all it does is get in the way of delicious typographic design. He mentions a certain solution that will work around that:

So how to easily use @font-face on Tumblr? The short answer is FontSquirrel with Base64 Encode in Expert mode. Basically just upload your font(s), download and extract your kit and copy paste the heavy generated CSS code into your default stylesheet.

This will work. However, I have run into this issue a while back when I was working on the current version of my blog now. There was quite a bit of head banging and crying while drinking Shiner to dull the pain of it all. I discovered a simpler solution, and all it really requires is that you have access to your hosting space/domain.

How did I do it?

What I did was create an .htaccess file, by simply opening a new plain text document, writing in a few lines of code (see below), and literally saving it with the name “.htaccess” and nothing else. I then dropped the file in the same directory as wherever I’m storing those fonts on my server and voila! Firefox is embedding on cross domains again.

Here is the code embedded below for you to copy and paste:

This is pretty much saying “Hey, I am giving whoever permission to use these filetypes on their own domain”.

Boom. There goes the dynamite.

-Alex

(via gregbabula)