I’m pleased to announce that last night we flipped the switch, and the brand new site for Karl Slezak Eventing went live.
karlslezakeventing.com
Karl’s site is a custom design, and is built upon my favourite platform, WordPress. We chose WordPress because it enables Karl to easily update his site when he’s on the road. He’ll be sending updates throughout the season. There’s a lot of great content to explore as well – I know I learned a lot about equestrian eventing while developing this site. Have a look and let us know what you think.
Congrats, Karl!
I generally try to keep the pontificating to a minimum here (see my Twitter for all the soapbox screaming you can handle) but I felt that the open letter published on Apple.com today, written by Steve Jobs and detailing his thoughts on the controversy surrounding Apple’s stance on Adobe’s Flash on their iPhone OS devices, was worth posting. Jobs takes an uncharacteristically transparent stance, and calmly outlines several points that collectively sum up Apple’s reasons for disallowing Flash or Flash-based apps into the iPhone OS walled garden.
As a designer and developer who appreciates the value that open standards offer for the future of the web, I think Apple’s stance on this issue is valid. Yes, Flash has performance issues on the Mac, and is vaporware on mobile devices, but that’s not really the point. The point, as pointed out by @benmcdowell on Twitter, is that Flash is this decade’s floppy disk, and Apple has drawn the proverbial line in the sand to say that they no longer wish to support dying technology.
I, like all other web developers, have a real stake in the outcome of this little war, which ultimately is why I’m bringing it up in this context. But my money, and my heart, are on truly open standards coming out on top.
I’m pleased to announce that we have started working on a brand new website for Karl Slezak Eventing. Karl is a top equestrian eventer and riding coach based out of Caledon, Ontario, and Ocala, Florida.
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Earlier this morning, during one of my thrice-daily checks of versiontracker.com, an app in the list caught my eye. It’s called Layers, and it allows you to take screengrabs of your entire screen (or web pages) and capture each individual element within them as layers in a Photoshop document.
Have you retrieved your jaw from the floor yet? No? It’s okay, I can wait.
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In yet another bit of exciting news, earlier this week we launched a brand new WordPress-based site for Barb Murphy (aka Barbara’s Shop), a graphic designer based out of Moncton, New Brunswick. Barb has been a fixture of the design community in southeast New Brunswick for years, but this is her first proper website, and I couldn’t have been happier to be a part of the launch.
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The site design for the past few months has been a mess, to say the least, and I’m finally getting around to cleaning it up. I’ve just launched a cleaner, meaner, simpler design, stripping site features down to the bare minimum – blog posts and a search form, down there in the footer.
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We’ve just wrapped up the first phase of development on a new site for Janet Crawford, a good friend who is just about to release an album of her own songs inspired by the poetry of Douglas Lochhead.
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Thank you for your interest, but after surviving a ridiculously busy summer, I’m taking a little break. As a result, I won’t be looking for any new work in the short term. If you need to get in touch with me, choose your weapon down in the footer.