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Exciting News! "nü web designs"
07/07/10 - 7:35pm
After many rises and falls in the past few months, my developer and friend, Michael Godin, and myself have decided to take the leap and start a production company named nü web designs. No, it's not french ;) or german, it's phonetic for new. It's also a smile with eyes. It's 2 people standing next to each other. It's social. It's about sharing, and succeeding. It's our motto: learn, share, succeed. And we really believe in it. It's about never turning away an opportunity to grow and share our experiences and knowledge. We want to bring my Sandbox idea as the center of this company. Which is great, because the best part of the sandbox is the ability to play and have fun in the process.
Google Custom Search Is Now Functional
07/05/10 - 5:30am
Google Custom Search is now functional. Pretty excited that I got that all styled up and everything working. Downside is that Google hasn't crawled my site in a while and all the search results are wrong. Hopefully, I'll be able to find a way to force Googel to recrawl or submit a sitemap or something.
I also decided to remove the resources section, mostly due because all of my resources are already nicely kept in my delicious account. Feel free to visit it as well.
Changed the nav name from Work to Portfolio, I thought it would make more sense this way. The user would get a better idea of what to expect.
Added the upcoming projects section on the left side, mostly to try to keep me on track, I tend to get sidetracked sometimes.
Sandbox Online!
06/28/10 - 4:30am
Wow! I went from idea, to design, to development, to the launch of a whole new site and a Wall Of Tweets done in one weekend! And I got all my sleep ;) I hope you like it, I think it's a drastic improvements from my earlier versions. I've actually used a grid this time, and it'll be much more adaptive to my future needs. What do you think?
Not bad... a Wall Of Tweets within 24hrs. It was actually incredibly easy and anyone can do it. Seriously, if you know any html/css at all, this can very easily be done. Just look at my source code, it's pretty much all copy and paste from twitter.com/widgets with a few twists. Next step: implement php so that anyone can enter their info and see their own lists and profies.
Visit the Sandbox page for a look at some snippets of code that I've accumulated in the past couple months. We'll see what else I can put in there as time goes by.
My Work/Portfolio page is totally up and running, visit there for some concept web designs, motion graphics and more to come.
Wall Of Tweets
06/27/10
I had this idea of making something like TweetDeck on a website that I could check anytime, anywhere and be able to share. Sort of like iGoogle (which I use constantly to keep me up to date with everything). So I came up with "Wall Of Tweets". A place where I put all my interesting Twitter Lists in one area. The next logical thing to do was to research if anybody else had done this; and obviously, someone had already coined the term. But I'm sticking to it :P
Welcome To My New Sandbox
06/26/10
Until just a few days ago, I had a hard time figuring out what a "sandbox" meant. I heard the term all over the designer/developper world but I just couldn't make a relation. So, like the nerd that I am, I went to Google and queried "define: sandbox". This came up "a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in". Not sure why but by the time I got to "a plaything" it just hit me. Duh! So I made one of my own :) Welcome to my virtual sandbox: where all my code snippets, motion graphics, photography and anything else I create or find will be living from now on.
