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jazzsequence.com redesign
i’ve been thinking of redesigning jazzsequence.com. i love this design, i do, and it was a huge project to design, since much of it was written by hand, but i’ve been thinking of ways to monetize the site, if possible, and this layout isn’t very conducive to that. it’s a good blog layout, and if i just wanted to do a small strip of ads down the side i could do that (and sacrifice the ridiculous widgets i have now), but i don’t really want to do that. plus, i’ve been really into magazine-style layouts recently, and i came across… { read more }
quick note about jazzsequence network…
looks like the single sign-on thing isn’t working right….when you create your wp account it doesn’t pass the authentication to the members/community site. sorry about this folks, i’m getting it worked on. UPDATE well i got the join link up top working…sorta. it’s just not using the single sign-on. but it’s a temporary fix… UPDATE 2 okay, so the links at the top work to get in but the user registration is separate from the wordpress registration for the time being. i’m leaving it that way until i can find a solution to integrate the two. :/
thinktank makeover, jazzsequence network
verily it was decided that it was time for a makeover of the thinktank site. this came down from on high because we went to some other web designers’ sites and realized most, if not all, our contemporaries tended to be a lot more conservative in their presentation on their own website. now, this seems counter-intuitive to me — i mean, it’s your site — you should show off how insanely badass you are. but no, most of them are fairly boring, professional-looking sites. well we didn’t want to do that. but we did want to make it a bit… { read more }
thinktank affiliate buttons, vista experience, computer woes resolved, and other stuff
so we got a new client for thinktank. it’s a wordpress blog, and it’s mostly maintenance and updates, but it’s still pretty cool. our client wants to build/integrate a social networking component, so i did some researching and found KickApps Social Networking Software. the more i read into it and compared the alternatives, the cooler (and more KickAss) KickApps became. they run a SaaS — Software as a Service, an intriguing concept Wired wrote an article about a while back. what it means in this case is that the social networking software is provided by and hosted on KickApps’ servers. … { read more }
site update
it’s been a long time coming, i finally updated the blog design. i’ve done a couple custom wordpress themes for thinktank clients now, and it was about time i did one for myself. it’s not really anything new, although the banner is totally new. but the css was recoded by hand. the overall design is keeping in line with the thinktank site — i really like that look. so, if you haven’t heard, firefox 3 is coming soon. the mozilla organization is trying to set a guiness world record for most downloads in a 24 hour period. so head on… { read more }
