Job Offer: Experienced WordPress Developer

May 13th, 2011 | Posted in Blog, Uncategorized | No Comments

Effective Dates: Immediately

VR Interactive is a full service web site design shop located in Jackson Hole, WY. This is a great opportunity to jump into a fast paced established and growing web design firm. A large portion of our client base is outdoor, travel and action sports oriented clients.

The Ideal Candidate:

We are looking for a WordPress developer who is experienced in building and supporting custom WordPress themes and plugins. The ideal candidate should display attention to detail, show creativity in solving problems, and shall demonstrate a thorough understanding of php, mySql and website design. The ideal candidate may also have knowledge of ASP.Net. This position is in-house only.

Qualifications Required:

• PHP

• mySQL

• jQuery

• HTML

• CSS

• Design

Position Responsibilities:

• This position requires the ability to work well in a team setting, while being detail-oriented and self-motivated.

• Foster a collaborative working environment, accept and encourage new ideas from the team for both internal and external projects.

• Special consideration will be given to any candidate with experience in Object Oriented Programming.

For more information or to apply, please send resume, cover letter and include links to top 3 sites you have built in WordPress and top 3 plugins you have built to Natalie@vrineractive.net.

HTML/CSS/PHP Web Design Internship

May 13th, 2011 | Posted in Blog, Job Posting | No Comments

Spend your summer vacation in beautiful Jackson Hole!

Effective Dates: Early June – Late August

*Dates flexible based on availability.

VR Interactive is a full service web site design shop located in Jackson Hole, WY. This is a great opportunity to jump into a fast paced established and growing web design firm. A large portion of our client base is outdoor, travel, and action sports oriented clients.

The Ideal Candidate:

We are looking for someone with a good knowledge of web development. The ideal candidate should display attention to detail, be a self-starter, show creativity in solving problems, and shall demonstrate a basic understanding of website design and programming. The ideal candidate should also have CMS experience and be familiar with working in the WordPress platform.

 The Ideal Candidate will be competent in all of the following topics:

• HTML

• CSS

• JQuery

• Photo Shop

• PHP

Position Responsibilities:

• This position requires the ability to work well in a team setting, while being detail-oriented and self-motivated.

• Foster a collaborative working environment, accept and encourage new ideas from the team for both internal and external projects.

• New media initiatives.

• Will assist in all aspects of the web development process.

 *Position responsibilities may change to fit the specific needs of the chosen candidate based on skill set.

Qualifications Required:

• Knowledge of Office applications (Word, Excel, Access)

• Knowledge of HTML/CSS

• General degree of understanding of web programming

For more information or to apply, please send resume and cover letter to Natalie@vrineractive.net.

jQuery Sniplet to make a website phone number dial on mobile browser.

May 12th, 2011 | Posted in Code, jQuery, tips and tricks | No Comments

The Problem

The other day I was looking for a way to make a websites phone number dial the phone number when viewing the site in a mobile browser.

Solution 1 :

The Easy and not fully supported version is to add 

<a href="tel:555555555">555-555-5555</a>

to your telephone number. The tel: code is supported by most mobile browsers and works great. However when not in a mobile browser you will get this error -

Alert – Browser does not know how to open this address, because the protocol (tel) isn’t associated with any program.

The Solution

I decided to write a quick little jQuery script that will check to see if the view-port is less then 500px wide – if so it wraps any item with the class mobile_tel in the appropriate link.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Hello</p>
  <p class="mobile_tel">Click Here with your Mobile to dial 555-555-5555</p>
  <p>World</p>
<script>
if (screen.width <= 500) {
	$('.mobile_tel').each(function() {
	    $(this).wrap("<a href='tel:5555555555'/>");
	});
}
</script>
</body>
</html>

Most mobile browsers will try and “sniff” out phone number and make them link automatically. This makes sure they can find the phone number