January 2000
+ Monday - January 31, 2000
As always, I appreciate your feedback to the site, be it good or bad. But there's one thing that bothers me, and has bothered me ever since I started this whole web thing back in '94. People who make snide comments always do so anonymously.
Now, I value personal privacy. But it makes me wonder why someone would take the time to say "your site sucks" or "I hate the these stupid e-zine sites" and not have the balls to at least sign their name, or include an email address to reply to. My statements to all these unreturnable mails is, "what have you done to make the web a better place?" I certainly don't expect everyone to like everything on this site, but if you have some beef with it, or want to see something changed, please, let's talk about it. Enough of this 6th grade playgound bull.
+ Thursday - January 27, 2000
Within the next coming weeks you may experience disruption on vitaflo. We're going to move our server over to a new home. Of course, this could mean that the site is down for a few days so just stick in there. Once we get things back up again it'll be good as new.
+ Tuesday - January 25, 2000
Check out Aexchange. After some conflict, the site deserves props. :)
+ Thursday - January 20, 2000
Yum, Yum, currently redesigning this site. Cool cool stuff in store (assuming it all goes according to plan). When will you see the new stuff? Um, I'm not sure. That's all I know!
In the meantime, check out a couple links you may find interresting.
+ Friday - January 14, 2000
Many MANY people, especially on the net, have been influenced by David Carson. The deconstructionist style that he basically invented has been the source of inspiration for just about any of the younger designers out there. I haven't read many of the things Carson writes, mainly because he doesn't write much (save his books), but Mat Mejia over at Holodeck 73 has an exclusive interview with one of the best modern graphic designers out there today. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
The best quote from the interview has go to be "So far, the best print still drives the best web design, but that will eventually change...." All of you budding web designers take note. We will be the powers that be in the design world in the years to come. Good news indeed.
+ Thursday - January 13, 2000
If you head on over to Praystation today, you'll notice that it's not really Praystation at all, but a redirect to NoFriendo's other design outting, Once Upon A Forest. I'm assuming since I didn't get an email about it, this is only temporary, but it is a nice change nonetheless. I have yet to figure out what exactly it means, or what it does, but perhaps it wasn't meant to do much of anything. A fun break from the normally great gaming fare.
UPDATE. Looks like it was indeed temporary as praystation now has a new navigation system to show off. No new content though. I'm assuming I just caught the time inbetween the upload and testing of the new nav.
+ Wednesday - January 12, 2000
It's time to vote for your favorite experimental design site. I've just updated the HREF section of the site to include the top 20 design sites on the net. Now it's your turn to vote for who should be number one. Each day you may vote once for your favorite, and at the end of each month, we'll take the bottom 5 of the 20 and replace them with sites people have submitted (which appear below the Top 20). So, submit good design sites and Vote Now for your favorites!
+ Tuesday - January 11, 2000
PROJECTA9 redesigns for winter. Ya gotta dig these colors cuz it just says "winter". Be sure to check out the Polaroids in "DEGREE" for a nice rural view of Vermont.
I'm currently working on some back end stuff for the HREF section. When I'm finished, there'll be a "Top 20 experimental sites", where you, the viewer, will be able to vote on which ones should be on top of the list. Every so often (probably monthly) the totals will be reset, and the the bottom 5 sites will be replaced with new entries taken from the list of user submitted sites. So if you want to give your site props, submit it. This will just be the first of many more interactive changes to vitaflo.
+ Thursday - January 6, 2000
I got a nice email from Justin Fox about a new Austrailian site called Australian INfront (instead of outback, get it?). Looks like this site is gonna be a great source for Aussie design in the months to come, as it's dedicated to web design by the people "down under". National pride, gotta love it.
Are you down with the TPC? Test Pilot Collective just launched v2.0, which is, I must say, a very minimal design. I also must say this is a nice change of pace from all the overdesigned sites out there. You can also check out their Minneapolis submission over at the MyCity Project, representin' vitaflo's homeland.
+ Wednesday - January 5, 2000
Kiiroi has redesigned an interim edition to the now popular teamwork driven design site. Added to this teamwork atmosphere is vitaflo's very own subscription script, modified slightly to work with the Kiiroi site. Glad to see someone can actually read my code! :) The new Kiiroi site (the full version) is due mid-February.
Well, a new domain of mine is in the works, which right now is going to remain secret, though I will say the site will be a major project driven site. As I tailor vitaflo into a more news and open source web design site, more and more of my experimental efforts will be ported to the new site (which will be much more appropriate). This will probably be a lengthy process with all the coding involved. More details soon...