Ze Home of Evan Samek

Inspired by @gayadesign on twitter, I’ve have decided that all designs I work on will be posted here for criticisms and review by other web developers/designers on twitter.

Below is a screenshot of a concept for a local musician, Robbie Cooper, that I am in the process of developing.  What do you guys think? Criticise! Suggest! Compliment! Enrage me!  Anything goes.

Oh, and please retweet if you wouldn’t mind! Thanks!

I have decided, after about 4 or so hours of usage, to do a quick critique of the new Tweetie for Mac app.  This is different than a review, in which I would outlined every aspect of the program with criticisms along the way.  In contrast, this post will only list my criticisms of the app.

Make direct message and ReTweet more accessible

Don’t make me right click to get this menu.  Make the menu appear when rolling over the picture or the ege like the reply icon as in Twhirl.  These functions are not secondary, they are primary to the twitter user.

Why are hashtag subjects (#) so gray against a gray background?

This just makes it hard to see the subject in a tweet.  Increase the contrast, it is not something that should be hidden with the background.

Everything else is pretty damn good.  Haha.  This was a shorter critique then I thought.

Hey All!

Welcome to my new blog.  It hasn’t changed that much but at least I’m finally heading in some direction with it.  I thought for my first new post I would write about the plugins I’m using this time around.

• Contact Form 7 – This plugin is amazing.  Really simple to use AJAX form, that even has a form generator in the admin section for a truly customizable experience.  It even has a built in option for a CAPCHA area, to prevent spam. (However you have to download this as a seperate plugin to use the functionality.)
• Flickr Gallery – Really simple to use Flickr implementation plugin that allows you to important your Flickr photostream in a variety of customizable ways.  Currently I have mine set to display the most recent uploads.
• Twitter Updater – Automatically sends a tweet to my twitter profile to let my followers know I just posted a new blog post.
• All in one SEO Pack- Everyone should know about this one already.
• Google SiteMaps XML – Again, a great SEO tool which everyone already knows about.
• Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu – Now this plugin is incredibly helpful.  It makes all admin section navigation in drop down menu format with CSS.  I couldn’t stand having to click through the various higher-level nav to get to the lower-level admin pages.  This saved me about 15 minutes of clicking time.
• Sociable – Easy integration of social networking and bookmark services. (Which is below this post…tweet me please!)

I’m also using various other plugins, but they are technical and/or aren’t important enough to talk about here.  Anyways, enjoy the new blog look and feel.  Hopefully now that I have a more presentable blog, I will write more.

Evan

I was just having so much fun with this tone matrix, that I had to share it on my blog.  The combination of music and technology combines the two aspects of my life that I love.  Enjoy.

via http://lab.andre-michelle.com/swf/fl10/ToneMatrix.swf