“The page you seek is not here.”I really don’t know what they were thinking when the web designers selected this happy girl photo.. but I love the exuberant error you get when you search the www.ikea.com web site!!!Error! Error! But don’t let that stop you. Well… actually you should have more control when presented with more data.
So these guys do a good job of controlling the way the Flash elements load on a page. It’s a very orchestrated visual loading for a fairly straightforward media site. I liked the web site more than the movie.
Warner Brothers — Harry Potter’s and the Dark Knight’s studio
I’m writing this in July, 2008…
back in December 2007, I stopped blogging/writing posts, and did not get back to it until July 2008. That’s a long time without updates. I did however keep notes of things I wanted to blog about when I had the time. I still don’t really have the time , I feel that I must refresh a few things. I have only changed a couple small items and some headers in the last 6 months… but I haven’t paid any attention to the website or written anything new.
Anyway, around the beginning of this year, I changed one of the wordpress headers, to “Blogging with a quickness”. Or something like “2008 with a quickness” with the anticipation of making a lot of fresh updates in the coming months. Well that never happened. It’s been more like “blogging with a slowness” since nothing has happened here for 6 months.
While it’s a dated term, the street term “with a quickness” means something, in a street sense. However, my context is from college, where a buddy’s law school roommate was a African-American man, hailing from Philadelphia, he introduced me to the term.
He liked to reply to various questions with it.
“Ready for the movies?”
“with a quickness!”“Did you remember the pizza?”
“with a quickness!”
This writing kinda makes him seem really dumb, but I liked him and he was one of the nicest and coolest guys.
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Anyway, like I said, it’s now July.
Also I’ve written some controversial posts, regarding the economy, housing, Chris McCandless’s mental illness, various other things that catch my interest. But I want people to think, not get angry.
At any rate, I also had some provocative images of bright orange fires, and bright orange type. (Currently There are still many fires burning in California, and environmentalists predict more fire prone dry scrub-land in the coming decade. It’s useful to mindful of this. Bu I also liked the orange and it fit my theme.)
I also had used terms like “with a quickness” and “smack down” in geeky ways. I can imagine that these items can be taken wrongly as well. So I’ve redesigned the site just a little bit to be less visually provocative (not that it was much to begin with.) But I don’t have time to totally do the “complete redesign”. I want to add a video page at that time as well, ok.
So, here are my action items.
So, yes, it’s a lot more bland, but it’s ok.
But after 6 months of no real writing, it needed a change anyway. I hope to come up with a better design, in the autumn.
Anyway.. For now, gentle readers, please just enjoy what it is… and let’s all get back to our careers and outdoor swimming.
This is a useful website with subway maps and commuter rail schedules.
They manged to redesign this site a year ago and it’s still looks good and is fairly easy to navigate around.
Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority
Props..