Posts Tagged ‘design’
Human CD Holders
The other day I ended up on Popgadget, which happens to be a site covering “Personal Tech + Innovative Life Style for Women”. I have no remembrance of how I landed on the site, but I assume it was when – once again – I was googling for some product. Although I certainly don’t have [...]
Version 2.0 Approaching!
I’ve talked about it often enough and have, also often enough, expressed my frustration with getting a new version of livingwithmusic.com out the door. I’ve whined, I’ve bawled at times, I screamed, yelled and pulled out the little hair that God had granted me for my last few decades (hopefully) on this planet. Ever since [...]
Web Design Is A Pain In The Ass
As you may have noticed, things have gotten a bit quiet on the livingwithmusic.com front lately. Besides the technical issues I’ve been experiencing with my current web host, issues which have temporarily been fixed, the reason for the silence is quite simple: I’m not satisfied with my site anymore, at all. What it really boils [...]
Help Me Improve This Site
For all of those Internet sniffing hounds out there, you might already be aware of the fact that I have had an as yet minor affair with that other blogging software, Wordpress. The site I’ve started putting together, a site that will eventually be integrated into the deus62/livingwithmusic network, is still pretty much hidden away [...]
Changed and Screenspired
In the ongoing saga of giving this site even more focus, it has undergone some major design and minor programming changes. The design was brought into line with the deus62.com domain, a process which isn’t quite completed yet, and the programming changes focused on improving the comments page for each post which now works properly [...]
Sigmarail by LOWKON
Although Lowkon sounds more like a Chinese or Asian company, they are in fact object designers hailing from southern Germany. Their design concept is one of simplicity and minimalism, as embodied in the often-heard slogan “form follows function” (and pushed to the forefront of design with the advent of the “Bauhaus” school of design in [...]
Expression Engine
Around weblog publishing and content management programs, whole flame wars can erupt. Everyone has his or her favorite and more often than not defends it as is life depended on it. Without wanting to start one of these flame wars here, I would like to tell you why I used Expression Engine (EE) [...]
Groove
If you have rather large collections like I do, it’s always nice to have a smaller selection close to your stereo if the collection, which is often the case, is stored in a rather elaborate shelf or container system wherever it fits – and that’s usually not right next to your stereo equipment.
So, what I [...]
Reboot Fall 2005
I don’t know for how many years I constructed these utterly wild table-based sites, but sometime around January of 2005 I decided I had had enough. No more tweaking with transparent gifs, no more setting of endless table properties, no more bandwidth wasting.
It turned out to be more complicated than I thought, and this site [...]
Blue Note Covers Online
Blue Note is perhaps the most famous jazz label, especially amongst collectors. It was founded in 1939 by two German immigrants, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, and became virtually synonymous with jazz, also due in large part to engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s Blue Note sound and designer Reid Miles’ asymmetrical but harmonious cover designs.
Reid [...]