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Tag archive for ‘Design’

Made My Week

This email from a friend (who had no idea of my involvement or lack thereof with the website in question) made my week:
“Why does Forest Grove’s website kinda suck now? What is this annoying “I bought my website at monstertemplates.com” flash menu doing on here?”
I offer no further comment because of something someone told [...]


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I Think I Want

I can’t quite decide if I like this desk design from Heckler Design. It definitely appeals to the Mac geek in me the way it’s built with an iMac in mind, but I still have a lot of papers (some might say mess?) on my desk that I’d just end up putting somewhere else. [...]


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Mixed Blessings

I got word today that I wasn’t chosen to look after our church’s website. Obviously that kind of sucks as I was looking forward to possibly being actually paid to do something I’ve been doing on a volunteer basis for the last few years. Without going into great detail, it’s frustrating as one [...]


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Yet Another New Design

Yeah, I decided to try out a new design today and it might have stuck. It’s a beautiful (IMHO) Wordpress 2.6 theme designed by Darren Hoyt and co that’s got the web 2.5 buzz word in mind - lifestreaming. Really it’s just whatever-you-decide-to-put-on-the-net-streaming. So over in that little “Find me Elsewhere” box [...]


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Web Design, Proper.

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Another New Theme

I’m editing a friend’s wedding video today and there’s lots of time spent waiting for things to render - so that means lots of tinkering on my laptop while the iMac slugs away.
I wasn’t a huge fan of the theme I was using for the last few days, I just knew I wanted something different [...]


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