by Joe on February 17, 2010
I just helped a client set up a tabbed interface for their Google Earth placemarks. It took a lot of searching to figure out how, but in the end it wasn’t that tough. I used the “tabber” javascript and css tabifier. It looks good “out of the box” and it’s the lightest I found. Here: http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/tabber/
I tried to find a way to have the Javascript and CSS as part of the placemark code, but ended up hosting it on the client’s server.
For the header I also pulled in an image from the client’s site and we made it a clickable link with the same technique people use to put header graphics in their Thesis WordPress themes.
I’ll expand this post with details if anyone’s actually interested. Make a comment if you want to see code and more tips.
by Joe on February 17, 2010
If you touch this, it will fall down
The other day at a coffee shop in Anacortes, WA, I saw one of these nail balancing puzzles at the counter where people stand to wait for their espresso drinks.
It had a sign under it reading:
If you touch this, it will fall down.
I asked the woman making my latte how often people touched it.
She laughed and told me that she was performing an experiment.
At first the sign read,
Don’t Touch.
But people touched it all the time. It got knocked down four or five times a day.
Then she changed the sign to:
Don’t Touch. For sale. $500.
People STILL touched it.
But once she changed it to a clear statement of action and consequence, people stopped touching it.
The lesson: People pay attention not when they’re told what to do, but when they’re given the tools they need to form their own conclusions about whether or not a certain course of action is a good one.
Photo by Elisfanclub via Flickr
