Saturday, February 28, 2009
Very Brief Note
Due to the ongoing campaign, I'll be changing my posting icon. Previously, it was from the famous cartoon Futurama. Anyone not getting the reference should google "all glory to the Hypnotoad".
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5 comments:
Congratulations, Hardman.
I guess you’ll be pretty busy for a while with the campaign & the TJH business.
Hey, I just noticed that fellow contender Cary A. Lamari has some cheesy custom gfx for his campaign. (Every time I see that guy’s name can’t help but think of calamari. He should work that cephalopod angle into his campaign somehow; it would make it far less boring.)
Hey Hardman, if you want, I’ll do some slick campaign graphics for you, gratis. (I’m more comfortable with online vs. print gfx; although I’ve done the latter, too.)
Hell, I enjoy sloganeering, too, but not necessarily electioneering.
Shades of H.P. Lovecraft!
Thanks for the offer, I think I will stick with as much simplicity as I can in terms of design. I realize that it's just so Web-1.1 but you never know when people might be trying to read your site at the default 800x600 setting on their 1280x1024 monitor.
I used to wonder why the County kept making these teeny-tiny little postage-stamp web-pages with itty-bitty unreadable fonts, then I borrowed someone's Windows(tm) machine and it looked pretty good. Then I reset their computer to use the whole of the graphics card and monitor capabilities, and voila! Itty-bitty postage-stamp County website with unreadable tiny fonts.
There are ways around that, but I'd rather spend the time on campaigning on the blogs and the Post site, instead of hacking javascript to get around Internet Exploder Quirks and hoping that people haven't disabled the javascript as an intolerable security risk to their Windows-98 and IE-4. ;)
Then again I want to appeal to the technophiles, so maybe I'll offer a dual-version campaign site. Maybe with a Flash banner featuring
(all glory to the) Hypnotoad.
That should at least give the "Futurama" fans a grin.
Good luck with your campaign.
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