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Eric Foster

Eric is our in-house comedian. But when he’s not making everyone laugh (or roll their eyes), he can be found working with his OSB teammates to craft creative and innovative solutions for Orange Sparkle Ball’s awesome clients. He, like the rest of the Orange Sparkle Ball team, loves a tricky design problem, and relishes in finding elegantly simple solutions.

Eric Foster

i like

logo design
typography
web design
web programming (both front and backend)

CSS 101?

I learned a CSS trick today that seems like basic CSS knowledge.

CSS 101?

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If you only want to select an element that has, say, BOTH of the classes “first” and “selected”, but not all the elements that have EITHER classm you can just use “.first.selected” (no spaces between the class names) as your selector, and presto, it selects just elements with BOTH the “first” and “selected” classes. Not sure of the browser support, but it seems to work in all the browsers I tested.

Google attempting to take on JS?

Can Google, with its daily stronger foothold in both the browser and search markets, conquer the JS community as well? Enter Dart.

Google attempting to take on JS?

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Can Google, with its daily stronger foothold in both the browser and search markets, rise to be a true replacement to pure JS?

iPad Portfolio App

Orange Sparkle Ball enters a new era with our own custom-built iPad Portfolio App!

iPad Portfolio App

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With new technology comes new challenges and we at Orange Sparkle Ball strive to stay ahead of the curve! To answer the introduction of the iPad 2, Orange Sparkle Ball has developed an iPad Portfolio Application to showcase our work.

Using the Baker Framework, the About OSB App makes sharing presentations and ideas with colleagues and prospective clients that much more engaging and eye-catching!

To see more, visit our Facebook Page!

Hearing Doctors of Georgia

Hearing Doctors improved their site, with a little help from OSB.

Hearing Doctors of Georgia

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After initially designing and building the Hearing Doctors of Georgia site in 2009, Orange Sparkle Ball recently updated the site with improved social media integration and an online coupon system. Please check out the new site below:

http://www.hearingdoctorsofga.com/

Tricksy

Rockin’ with Tricksy, Orange Sparkle Ball helped this Roller Derby band enhance their online presence by creating a site as edgy and fun as their music!

Tricksy

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Orange Sparkle Ball helped the Roller Derby band Tricksy (http://www.tricksyrox.com) turn it up to 11 by collaborating with the band on a refresh of their website.

The site features a new look and offers a pop-out music player! The player uses modern HTML5 technology, with Flash as a fallback, to play the latest and greatest Tricksy tunes!

Another new features is the band’s new photo gallery: powered by Javascript and using jQuery, the gallery allows for a fun, extremely interactive experience. Be sure to check out this rockin’ site!

Bonni Farmer

Bonni’s main focus is on speedy assistance and efficiency.

Bonni Farmer

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tetris
humor
fuchsia

Coming from over a decade of customer service experience, I am constantly pondering how best to serve my team and clients’ needs while being the newbie in this ever-changing industry. I find that I’m detail-oriented and a darn good assistant. I enjoy things of tedious nature and following things through to the end. I look forward to Orange Sparkle Ball’s future as well as my own evolution within this organization. We are moving towards some exciting endeavors!!

I am a librarian at heart in that I love finding systems for organization. For example, my books are currently in rainbow order (ROYGBIV) and my dvds are in alphabetical order.

Awesome HTML Trick

This trick is insanely useful for anyone working with CSS.

Awesome HTML Trick

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http://paulirish.com/2008/conditional-stylesheets-vs-css-hacks-answer-neither/

Ever have to choose to add an IE specific stylesheet or an IE hack to your existing styles? Use this trick in future projects and you’ll always have a simple way to make IE only rules in your existing stylesheets.

Ruth Fowler

If you asked me, I would say that what I do is tell stories and solve problems through design.

Ruth Fowler

i like

the right shade of yellow
mid century furniture
the number 5
hearing laughter

After nearly ten years in design and branding, I would answer to the titles Graphic Designer, Product Designer, Brand Strategist or Visual Communicator. If you asked me, I would say that I what I do is tell stories and solve problems through design.

I have an undergraduate degree in Industrial Design and an MBA in marketing. For the first six years of my career, I worked for a Fortune 500 company and was responsible for bringing brands to life through consumer products. In recent years, I have been teaching design and independently consulting.

One of things I love most about design is the means it provides for fostering viable, elegant and meaningful solutions to a variety of problems. Lately, I have seen those problems be more and more about finding ways to close loops in responsible and sustainable ways.

Clear Rock

We recently helped ClearRock in their quest to make their mark on the social web, with the help of some updates to their website!

Clear Rock

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ClearRock, a New England based executive coaching and outplacement firm, began the year by increasing their online visibility through the utilization of popular social media outlets, thereby delivering improved avenues of communication with the company, and generating more opportunities for ClearRock to receive feedback and interact with their audience.

Orange Sparkle Ball, who designed ClearRock’s current website, added the following new features, which can be found when visiting the ClearRock (http://www.clearrock.com) site:

• Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn icons that allow users multiple ways to connect and share information about ClearRock with online friends via social media

• Links placed throughout the site to ClearRock’s social media profiles on LinkedIn and Facebook

• A newsletter sign-up form to connect users to ClearRock’s e-newsletter – an e-mail publication created by ClearRock for clients and industry professionals, filled with invaluable insider knowledge.

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