Archive for May, 2007

EatonWeb beta launch and Valarie’s Place 0

Just a quickie, I’ll post more on this later on but time is short…

My buddy Micah over at SeaWaves have announced the beta launch of the world’s oldest blog directory, EatonWeb. Yep, beta, so expect a quirk or two. I did the design for this mammoth project which is nice, again, beta and a quirk or two to take care of, but I’m pleased with it. Doing websites with lots of content and links is always hard, but I think this one came out alright. Do submit your blog!

Also, I did the basic design for another SeaWaves launch, this time a restaurant website called Valarie’s Place. If I lived in the New Jersey area I would check ‘em out.

Now I’m off for some much needed rest and some, hmm, secret errands…

Looking for blogosphere bloggers 0

Are you a kick-ass blogger with lots of knowledge and passion for the blogosphere, blog networks and the theme scene? Then I need you for a gig… You’ll be paid per post.

Interested? E-mail me: tdh (at) palepublishing.com

Moneyizor Network Magazine launches 0

The Moneyizor Network Magazine just launched, with design from yours truly. It’s based on the previous network magazine designs (Allusionz, LifeTimes and 21st-Century Phi) that I made for Syntagma way back. John wanted Moneyizor green since it’s all about money and things like that, and who am I to argue when he comes running with his wad of notes?! Also, I like green.

Moneyizor screenshot

Pretty sober design, as it should be when money’s involved if you ask me. Check out Moneyizor and read John’s launch post over at the Syntagma blog.

The Blog Herald redesign (Verdict: Still Work To Be Done) 0

Disclosure: I’m involved in business with The Blog Herald owners, Splashpress Media, and also blog at 901am, another Splashpress site.

The redesign of The Blog Herald, where I blogged when it was maintained by Matt Craven, is long overdue. The concept change when the Herald was bought by Splashpress didn’t fit the old layout (by Chris Pearson by the way). Honestly, I think The Blog Herald should’ve gotten some design love under Matt Craven as well, but then again I’m a bit picky when it comes to these things. Go figure.

Brian Gardner is the guy behind a bunch of free themes, as well as a few for Performancing. It looks like this nowadays:

The Blog Herald

My buddy Tony Hung, editor of The Blog Herald, have got a launch post up. Check it out, and click around a bit. What do you think?

I think they went the right way with focusing on the features to the left, with news in the middle column a little way down. That’s logical since it’s all about the meaty post over at The Blog Herald these days, the road they chose to tread so to speak. The basic layout decisions is OK, but I’m having some problems with this design.

  • The footer is bland and unbalanced when it comes to spacing on the top/bottom. It needs a little action and graphic love. Too clean, and that’s from me…
  • I think there’s too little contrast between the columns. Spacing, changing the fonts and/or font sized, color alterations… They’re too close to each other in every aspect.
  • There are some pixel issues with the menu/main content column.
  • I’d like some vibrancy in the header. Going clean gray with a little red is alright, but something to give it a more three dimensial feel.

Don’t get me wrong, I think this is a step in the right direction for The Blog Herald and the type of content they’re doing these days! Brian did a nice job and I’m sure the site and design will improve during the coming days.

Officially back at 901am 0

Yep. First post in almost a month. I plan to do a couple each weekday, we’ll see how it turns out. Regular readers saw this coming of coure.

Returning to 901am 0

I never really left, it just got sold, redesigned and then redesigned again. My first posts will appear tomorrow if all goes well.

In other news, I’m going to try and relaunch this blog next week. It might not be possible, work comes first, but I’ll try to get it out in 2.0 beta. It will look like this, sort of.

The fine art of catching up 2

Getting back online means having lots of stuff to catch up on. The obviously screaming inbox is one of them, reading another. Not counting work (wether it is blogging, designing or something else), that’s what I need to catch up on.

E-mail is my primary mean of communication. Being away for almost two weeks leaves me with a lot of spam and newsletter cleaning in my inbox (although filters help a lot) and 200 or so e-mails marked urgent reply needed. That’s a whole days work at least, so I’ll try and trim it down to 50 e-mails a day, and also take some extra time to get rid of the ones where a short reply is enough. Marking you e-mail with labels to help you prioritize is a good way to relieve you of some stress. Labels like urgent reply needed, research first and in due time will help a lot if you like me receive a lot of mail. I also label my e-mail after what project they correspond to. That will help me to find all the urgent reply needed e-mails that belongs to a certain design gig. Unfortunately I’ve been sloppy with my labeling so I have my work cut out for me… Read more

Slevel going down the drain - do you MMORPG? 0

Well, hopefully not. Online gaming blog Slevel, which I started and Petter have managed for me, will be closed down or sold, unless some brilliant MMORPG freak shows up at my doorstep. It’s a shame, ’cause it’s a nice little blog really.

Why is it going down? Well, Petter’s new employer won’t let him blog about games for me. I think it’s pretty silly but fine, since Petter wants this new gig I’ll just settle with being happy for him. A few words in his goodbye post.

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