Cliff Dutton

Carpenter and website developer. Amateur photographer. I have lived in several western states working on guest and cattle ranches. My profile picture is of my red and white boarder collie, Partner, who helped me on a Montana cattle ranch. I was the Vermont greenhorn. When I came back to Vermont to do carpentry Partner kept busy with squirrel chasing. He died in 2002.

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Early Spring Ice Melt Photos

[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Glen+Lake,+Castleton,+VT&aq=0&oq=glen+lake+castlevermont&sll=43.663802,-73.237464&sspn=0.025705,0.052443&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Glen+Lake&t=h&z=14&ll=43.663802,-73.237464&output=embed&w=425&h=350] Off on a hike at Glen Lake to check how much ice is on the lake and to see how long before I can put the kayak on the water, I took the photos seen at the top of this blog of the ice and the the hike along the shore.The ice was …

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The Chittenden Historical Society Site Rebuild

The Chittenden Historical Society has long been awaiting an update for their web site. Originally designed as a compact size window with scrolling elements within the window, it appeared dwarfed on modern screens. Now wider and with no height restriction, the content height will fill the browser window and scroll when needed. Other improvements include a text …

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Log Addition for DDBuilder

Screen shot of DD Builder web site

DDBuilder has been working on another building project and I was asked to upload photos and display them in iWeb created pages. Log builders, Wooden House Company, drew up the plans and pre-assembed parts of the structure at their facility and trucked them to the site. The same team assembled the log frame. Check out the …

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New Sign Banner for Twin Ford Farm

With a photo of the farm’s sign, I could create an image similar to it for the web site’s top banner. In this instance, full width of the page was not needed for the banner so I allowed the photo column to scroll beside the banner. I fixed a piece of background brown to the …

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New Web Site Client -Twin Ford Farm

Twin Ford Farm has been one of my first non-table sites. Styled and laid out with CSS it demonstrates  the use of fixed elements relative to the browser window. The content appears to scroll behind the fixed elements which, in the case of the footer image, actually overlaps the content yet spacing allows full view …

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DDBUILDER.COM update

Screen shot of DD Builder web site

Added new photos to Dutton Construction’s finished project, Sugar Hill. Photo pages on DDBUILDER.COM are created with Apple’s iWeb and posted to a public folder on DropBox. Completed projects were moved from “ongoing” to “completed” page and thumbnails/preview images were updated. Next will be a new project added to “ongoing” when I receive the new images …

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Fish House has a New Gallery!

Fish House Designs used a MobileMe photo gallery and because that service ends soon I created a new gallery using Simperviewer which works with flash or javascript, on computers and mobile devices. The full screen option really shows off Donna Claytor’s lively and colorful pieces. Check it out! There were a few text changes but …

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Chittenden Dammers Update

The Chittenden Dammers Snowmobile Club is the first of my sites I linked to a WordPress blog. The trail conditions blog has become quite popular. This update changes the welcome blurb, the TMA membership form and some photos.

Ogg Furniture’s TV Console Page

Though the rest of the site provides a preview of the enlargement or detail image in the thumbnail, I imagined the thumbnail could be an overall shot with various hot spots that, when moused over, the main viewer image changes to show detail of that area. (Example) This idea also allows additional featured area information …

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Charles Ogg TV Lift Cabinet uses Youtube

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBc8yVnThkI] So far I’ve found embedding video a challenge with the exception of inserting Youtube video because Youtube provides the code to insert. It is pretty handy and having the video on Youtube helps with recognition of the client’s company. See it embedded on in the Charles Ogg Furniture page.