Archive for November, 2007
Inspiration – Park View Baptist Church
Posted by Terry Apodaca in Design, Inspiration on November 29, 2007
I am more and more enjoying this Inspiration (even though I am not updating this as much as I want to) theme for some of my posts. I seen many others like it…but this isn’t just for the heck of it. A lot of people always say, don’t take someone’s design, instead use other designs for NEW inspiration. And the more I archive, the more I can look back and take the best of a select few to create a new design.
Anyway, next up is Park View Baptist Church. There are many visually appealing things about this site. The colors are wonderful and the layout itself is great. The flow of information on the pages were designed very well too. But there are a few things I would like to point out about this site that I do not like.
First, the main navigation on the right side of the page could have been a different font, IMHO. Second is how the navigation is set up relative to the page/colors/etc. I almost don’t even know what’s links and what’s not because the mouseover or hover is so subtle that I can’t tell if it’s changing. The same goes for the links in the header, the icons to change…ever so slightly…to alert to the user that you can click. Those are my main issues with this site. Everything else is GREAT!
Park View Baptist Church
And I also want to give a nice round of applause to Ken Woodworth for doing such great work, and this being his second site in my very short list of Design Inspirations. His site alone needs to be in this list at some point…go check it out…nicely done Ken!
Photo Sharing Services
Posted by Terry Apodaca in Web Service on November 12, 2007
There’s a new kid on the block. With the existence of such powerhouses like Flickr, Photobucket and Webshots I am not sure it’s needed, but it’s nice to see something new (or redone perhaps). I introduce you to:
I haven’t used it yet and I may not since I already have Photobucket and Flickr accounts. And it would just as easy to go to my yahoo or google account and start uploading photos to those as well.
Or, the list can go on and on:
Smugmug
MyPhotoAlbum
SnapFish
ringo
slide
faces
PictureTrail
dotphoto
tinypic
putfile
imageshack
shutterfly
zooomr
pickle
and I am sure there are plenty more. If you know of some, link them up in my comments!!!
*** UPDATES
How could I have missed the first two comments? As Eric and Joseph have pointed out…these are two very nice sites…ones that I have seen before…just forgot (or got lost under the countless others that I’ve only just started to list).
Texas Tech Coach vs Officials
Posted by Terry Apodaca in Football, Red Raiders, Sports, Texas Tech on November 12, 2007
Hmmm…is anyone really surprised? TSO isn’t TSO for noth’n. I also think that some things come at the right time and others don’t. Like in Basketball, when a coach will take a Technical for the team…get the fired up. Or when a someone is ruled out at home plate when it was clear to the entire stadium that he safe (tie goes to the runner)…and the coach is thrown from the game from getting into the umpires face. So, bad example is that silly coach from Okielite going off on a reporter because they wrote something about one of his players in question…
Another may have been Leach’s reaction to the game. Now, I will not say that I agree, disagree, or even condone it. What I will say is this though…he had better start taking this much passion for ALL sides of the ball and on the field before he’s no longer a Head Coach.
Leach awaits news from Big 12 office
I guess now it’s just a waiting game…but I have a feeling it’ll be a lot more of nothing in the end.
The GIMP
Posted by Terry Apodaca in .NET, Design, Technology on November 9, 2007
Most of you know that I fully support the open source world, while I hack away as a ‘jack of all trades’ developing currently in .NET (C# and ASP.NET). I also don’t mind NOT having to pay for things like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I have both because I love to support and there are soooo many tutorials out there that even an amature can pretty much achieve a goal. I do most of my graphics in AI or PS.
But, I also love to use Inkscape and GIMP. These are the two open source rivals to the Adobe line. And let me tell you this…if you don’t mind the minor learning curve, you can do anything and everything you can do in these two free graphic software that you can do with Adobe’s AI and PS. Now, I should also let most of you know that Inkscape is Vector based and GIMP is Raster. To most that doesn’t mean much so I won’t go into technical details.
Anyway, the main reason for this post is to let those of you know that the GIMP just released a new and improved version: 2.4
I’ll load it up here in a few days and give it a spin. Maybe I’ll write a review this time!
Inspiration – Denver Seminary
Posted by Terry Apodaca in Design, Inspiration, Thoughts on November 7, 2007
Here’s my next ‘Inspiration’ post…Denver Seminary. This site is classy. That’s really all I have to say. I’ve seen several sites that are similar in their classy look…but for some reason this one is my favorite so far. The colors, the layout, everything. They even left the design layout in 1024×768 optimized. That’s cool.
Denver Seminary
