Flock has been slowly changing, and I haven’t been paying attention. I took a look about a year ago and thought…”meh” what’s the deal? I don’t think it’s that social. But now, I’m looking at it, and it really does seem to add that extra littlebit for internet socialization. Matter of fact, I’m blogging from it right now….fancy no?
Did you notice Google Transit has Vancouver on their list? Translink had a press release back in November. I would think there would be more fan fare for something like that. But I didn’t hear a peep on it. Stumbled on it through the translink site. It’s pretty handy and accurate. Check it out.
Site update of: http://www.vamcdonald.com
I’ve been working on my friend Vanessa’s site for some times. For the original site I think we collaborated quite well to give a gallery feel. However that was some time ago. As a bit of an internet enthusiast, I felt the pressure to update her site with the times. I’ve learned a lot since the original site, and every time I clicked “view source” i could see all of those learning. So update it was.
I know the code isn’t perfect, but I’ve made it so that adding and removing pieces from the website has the feeling of hanging real art. There is the step back to wonder if it’s aligned in proportion to the piece next to it. There is the hand sign of moving the image up or down “just a shimmy”. If the site was to be a gallery, then hanging should be no different.
I’m not a fan of catch phrases. Especially when it comes to fad phrases like “Web 2.0″. It’s essentially the same stuff that’s been around for a while, except a few javascript libraries, some faded backgrounds and large fonts have all spun together. Someone I guess just needed to find one phrase to encompass it all. Well, which some AJAX, some XHTML, CSS and even some bulky fonts here and there with a dash of gradient, I’ve tried to keep up.
I wanted to take a page our of Carmon Moll’s article about Redesign vs Realign. I wouldn’t call myself a great designer by far. But if I could follow a couple of guidelines, I could be not half bad.
It was a pretty good venture to try and keep up to par with the virtual world. Lot’s of cursing because of IE. Lot’s of problem solving, and a bit of crazyness. But all in all, it’s out in the world to view. Take a look, feedback is always welcome.
I’m in the process of transitioning over to Dreamhost. There are several reasons why
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As time progresses, I add in new tools. Lately del.icio.us has become the keeper of my bookmarks and last.fm the keeper of my music. I didn’t want to bog my own blog down with too many sources, but I figured some people might like to see all of this in one quick snapshot. So…bring in a new tool: Squidoo. My topic, simply me.
Right now I’m not that interesting…according to the stats, I’m ranked 11,706 3,442 (update: since I posted this I’ve shot up tremendously in rank. Yeah!) . So I encourage visitors. I don’t care to be 1 but maybe a 3 digit ranking like 400ish, would be nice. Want to get a snapshot of me? Visit my lens, http://www.squidoo.com/tumbleweed/
Came across Last.fm because one morning I had a great Idea. “How ’bout a community website, where people can upload music and share them?” I thought to myself.
Shortly after looking around I raised my fist in the air “Damn you!” Not only has this been done, it’s been done very well. So well in fact, that not shortly after, I made the biggest compliment. I gave money; not because someone called me begging, but because I felt it was a worthy cause.
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I knew that they were making progress with interactive navigation for computers, but this is mesmerizing
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With the help of google reader, here are items I've decided to share.
Mmmmmm, del.icio.us
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