Playground of Shaun Walker

This Web 2.0 thing

I’m not one to rave on about a subject, but in this case i will. What is with the whole web 2.0 thing? I mean like the only difference is that the sites uses a ‘cleaner’ layout, and may have a bit of AJAX chucked in, and uses XHTML code. Apart from that its all the same. I see some sites go a bit crazy on the images for every button, its not helping those who are still stuck with the old 56k modem. And these new terms like ‘flickr’ and sites that have an extra character like ‘pagerank2′. Although if you are obsessed with the Web 2.0 age, visit web2.0foru.ms and share you love for it.

Browsers

Why can’t anyone agree on a standard? They have W3C to base it off, so why cant they just get along? IE would have to be the worst one ive come across when dealing with compatablility for code. You get it all working nice and fine in both FireFox and Opera, and you go to check it out in IE, and some list is off by a few pixels.

Graphics Design

Yet another render. This one is using Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, and a small bit of Apopysis. The crazy swirls came out like that by using a Max plugin called ‘greeble’, the water drop type things in the corners is all Photoshop, using different effects.

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Domain for Sale

I am currently selling ImgHost.net on TalkFreelance, the thread can be seen here.

Other things

TalkPHPBB – Not sure how sucessful it will be, but it will be a good challenge. I’ve never started a forum before so I reackon i will learn alot about it. I’m hoping to open it just after PHPBB3 final release is out. Design and domain is ready, just needs uploading and fixing the forums up.

TurnkeyFind – Yet another interesting one. Basicully just a directory/search engine for TurnKey scripts. Will have some ad places for Turnkey script providers, and maybe one Google Adsense ad. I recently saw on (tf) someone selling a site similar to my idea. Hopefully mine goes just as good if not better. No design as of yet, waiting for some money to come in from the last Wordpress theme coding.

TutDen – Yes still working on it. Just had it moved to another server, but the version they copied over is an older one. So thats going to require reuploading some files. But all in all, its nearly done.