Off to Agile IT Experience Tomorrow.

mikewitters — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:46:18 +0000

Well, a colleague and I are off to Agile IT Experience in Reston, VA tomorrow. It runs Thursday, Friday, and a half day Saturday. Im so ready for it. There look to be a lot of very good sessions and I plan on attending all of them that I can.

Hope to see you there. If you see me, say hi!

My first attempt at a ‘Web 2.0′ look

mikewitters — Fri, 04 May 2007 01:28:01 +0000

If you’re one of the 142 people who have visited my site since its inception last month then you’ve probably noticed that I have changed the theme often. I was trying to find what would fit the times and what I liked at the same time. I spent at least 4 hours on each one that I tried – making a logo, customizing the colors, fonts, etc. This is my latest attempt, and for now I’m happy with it. I went with the web 2.0 look which from what I understand is bright colors, big fonts, big graphics (just my RSS buttons), but nothing too flashy.

I made many of the graphics using Gimp. And, yes, I know they suck. Thats why I do the programming and leave the artistic stuff to graphics designers. I tried some curved divs and a few other tricks, but after hours of looking at it, I kept coming back to this basic design – leaving out all of the super elegant stuff.

I’m sure I need to work another color or two in there somehow, but for now, this is it.

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Off to Agile IT Experience Tomorrow.

My first attempt at a ‘Web 2.0′ look