Pixelounge Gets a Facelift
After redesigning my freelance design site – colourform, I thought it was about time my blog here got some lovin in the design department. I’ve added some nice new graphics and generally tidied up the place. The retro brown and yellow colour scheme is one I’ve been playing around with for a while. I wanted something easy on the eye that evoked a laidback loungin vibe. All I need now arre some furry cushions and a lava lamp!
The online shop will be up and running fully once I’ve got time to upload new t-shirts and art. RedBubble will handle all the manufacturing, payment and delivery. You’ll be able to buy shirts, hoodies, cards, posters and framed artwork. Plans are afoot to get lots of gorgeous products up there so stay tuned.
I hope the new design works better. I’ve added tags so it’s easier to find articles of interest. New posts will be going up more regularly as I’ve been a bit slow recently. If you find any glitches with this new design, please drop me a comment below so I can fix it.
Deeper House Soul Mix
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any new mixes, work has been getting in the way of my aural hobby. I joined a cool new DJ Mix community called Letsmix.com. It lets you upload mixes and features a nice flash player to embed in your blog (as above). The quality of the members mixes is generally good. There are some big name and less well known DJ’s with active accounts. It’s great discovering new music this way. The extensive tracklisting and artist info makes it easy to find the tune you want to buy. You can skip to selected tracks and it even lets you know the start time, which is useful when the mixing is seamless. read more…
Wacom’s New Pen & Touch Tablet
Working with a mouse, as a designer, is not the most fluid and creative way to input to your computer. I used the Wacom Intuos tablet a few years ago when I worked in an Ad agency, and really missed the feeling of drawing and navigating with a pen. It was so much more like using a sketchbook rather than the dull point and click experience you get with a mouse. Mice are great for quick repetitive tasks such as data and text input, but quickly become bothersome when trying to retouch photo’s or draw organic shapes. read more…
New Colourform Site Goes Live!
Well, it’s been a long time coming but I’ve finally completed the redesign of colourform; the website for my little creative studio. The final tweaks and testing were completed at 16:00Hrs today and I’m happy to let the site go live now.
The new site has been completely redesigned from the ground up to run on WordPress. My old site was static xhtml, and while it ran well and did what it was supposed to, I found updating content tedious and time consuming. The new system greatly streamlines my workflow and allows me to edit copy and update my work with the click of a few buttons. read more…
ProLab Photography Theme
ProLab is a WordPress template for photographers and visual artists. I based it on the Hybrid theme framework. It features Flash and Javascript image galleries (you get to choose which type you want) all created and edited via your WP dashboard.
The ease of use was important for non-techy types. Creating and editing galleries is as easy as creating a gallery, uploading your photo’s and copy pasting in a shortcode. You can tag your photo’s add captions, resize images and embed slideshows in the sidebars if you wish. read more…
