Wix is a place where you can pimp out a website in a few minutes and make it quite pretty. The only real difference of note between this and other sites like Weebly, is that Wix comes across as if it feels the need to dress up in a new outfit to go to work.
Something about the shiny, new car smell having, bright interface is a bit off putting. Unfortunately it fits with the demographic they are going for, promising Free MySpace layouts in the headline of the editor. As nice as the site is, one cannot help but think about how the service is contributing to the ugly parts of the internet. If it is simple to add a load of flash/slideshows/junk to your site and the web page that serves it caught your eye due to its good looks, then your site must look great, no?
This is one of those websites that you hope does not pick up in popularity not because of the service it provides, but because it is geared toward MySpace users (the ones who you would definitely never let decorate your house).
Having said that, it will probably make quite a few Graphic Designers do a happy dance.
It is still summer. Usually nothing happens in the summer and everyone cuts back on blogging. Last summer Twitter kept everyone yammering on, and kept the posting up a bit at the beginning of this one. Now everyone is sick of posting about the same old stuff and many have decided to take extended blogging siestas. Top that information off with some of the popular blogging networks cutting back for cost and you can almost see tumbleweeds flying across your screen.
Finally went thru all the PHP in the header and footer and stripped it down to HTML…now the load times on the site should not be so long anymore. We may have lost part of our handful of readers due to that, but I hope people are really not that impatient.
Since most of the information circling around has been a bit boring, I spent the day cleaning up code and moving things around. For a second I thought about putting a Feedburner subscribers link on the page, until I saw this: Continue … »
As everyone should know now due to the blogstorm, Sitemeter hurts a whole bunch of sites on Friday and Saturday. The javascript code went wonky and shut down anyone using IE to look at the sites.
I find it hilarious that many of the folks who had sites affected had no idea and went about normal business, simply because they used Firefox, Safari or Opera and did not notice anything wrong. I just wonder how many people completely reformatted machines to remedy the problem. There were lots of fixes discussed on webpages that people couldn’t read, so I guess that is understandable.
Was clicking about on Mashable and saw a post about Vigster, a social networking site for gamers. Being a bit of a gamer, I got excited about it. Went to the site and was bored. Bored. I had seen another site named dropped by a semi anonymous poster named Gary. GiantBomb.com. I went to GB and found that their silly logo really brightens up the site. It seemed easier to navigate, and it looks like it has potential to amass games to it catalog much quicker due to a nice submit button on the games page.
What really sold me on GB was the silly hype video they made for users to embed and promote them. Continue … »
Ok, we all know how much I despise Twitter. And if you do not know, that is very surprising. Me and James have growled about it many times.
Today, I noticed that we were picking up a little bit of traffic from FriendFeed. While I do not hate FriendFeed as much, it is along the same vein. I decided since some of the people that check us out hang out on FriendFeed, that I would chill out about it and check the place out. It’s one of those situations where you really hate doing something, but you basically have to. Continue … »
[We] have a contest going on right now on the website. Any user creating an animation from now until October 1st has a chance to win a US$5,000 cash prize.
Well we already love ToonDoo here for the comic panels, but there is another animation site vying for our attention. Its called GoAnimate and it guides the user in making simple animations. It is not as intuitive to as ToonDoo (but only by a little) and there seem to be way less characters to choose from. But here is Tom (yes the characters are pre-named) with a demo.
