web non-sense : blog on web design, photography, music and jeeps

It’s December 1st and 24ways.org is up and running with a GREAT new design. Lots of talk on twitter, etc… about it and personally, I LOVE it! Tim van Damme is behind the re-design and it’s a fresh new look to start this 2008 season of awesome posts.

The Design

Far from the very minimalistic design of the past 3 years, this design shows what power CSS has. It’s original as in you won’t see another design remotly close to it. Notice the background as you scroll! WOW! The navigation is very cool and different in the way that the background extends all the way down. My only thing is the colors … not my favorite colors but who cares when you’ve been staring at the site for 5 minutes and you’re still finding things you haven’t seen yet!

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Yesterday I started working on a redesign for the blog. I was getting tired of the swirls and yellows. I’m not a yellow person really so I don’t know what prompted me to put them in the first place. So it’s back to the “darker” colors for now. Colors I’m more comfortable with … more at home with.

I’ll be cleaning up the categories too. As you can see, HTML, CSS are gone and they’ve been replaced with Design instead. Jeep will stay of course, but I might combine Jeep Write-Ups into Jeeps. I’m looking at only have 4 categories maybe and color coding them. Each category will have it’s colors and the posts will reflect that.

I’ll also be adding a lifestream. Since adii’s redesign, I’ve come to like that section very much. Since I twitter quite often and use delicious almost daily, I think it’s a vital part of me “blogging”. And I’m hoping to add The Web Squeeze in there too.

More to come!

I’m not one to blog about movies but I will make an exception this time for Sharkwater. It’s a documentary that I just saw this afternoon on The Movie Network and it really blew my mind. It’s only 1:30 minutes long but at about 1:20 minutes in, I almost started to cry.

Not something you would normaly do when watching something on sharks. Yes … you heard me. Sharks! Did you know that shark fins are almost as covetted as drugs? Yeah … poachers grabs the sharks, cut their fins off and put them back in the water. WTF?! How would you like it if I cut off your limbs and left you on the streets with nothing but the shirt you are wearing?

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I feel like if I don’t put down all my ideas somewhere, my brain might explode from trying to save them all. I don’t know what it is really! Sometimes the creative juices are just overflowing and at other times… nothing! Well… seems like I’m in one of those creative slots.

There’s a few things I want to do with this blog and hopefully I will be able to keep it up. I want to start making backgrounds … don’t ask why but I’ve got just a bunch of different designs in my head right now that would be great for that.
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A month or so ago, I bought my first Apple product - a 8G iPod Touch - and I just love it.

I’ve also been looking at Macs for quite some time. I’ve always wanted one. Yes… I know they are expensive but when you think of all the time you can spend “repairing” a PC with Windows on it, swearing at it, cursing it for the stupid OS that it is sometimes well… to me the price out-weight the troubles that PC sends my way. It’s an opinion and I do not want to get into a PC vs Mac debate.
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