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amych - Sep 20, 2007 1:28:51 pm PDT #2809 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Apple's latest product - the iBrick?

OTOH, I've seen the same cryptic two-sentence comment all over the place today, most often interpreted as benignly as "we won't promise not to fuck with your ringtones again". I suspect the truth is somewhere in between, or maybe more likely, that The Steve was digging on sounding all oracular and shit.


DXMachina - Sep 20, 2007 3:24:37 pm PDT #2810 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Yeah, I wasn't quite sure how they made the logical leap to the iBrick out of that. I can't imagine they'd be willing to piss people off that much.


NoiseDesign - Sep 20, 2007 3:32:32 pm PDT #2811 of 25496
Our wings are not tired

I think that some people will unintentionally brick their phones trying to unlock them or applying other hacks and then blame Apple. It's pretty easy to brick a RAZR trying some of the hacks on them.


beekaytee - Sep 20, 2007 6:11:51 pm PDT #2812 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant

Hey. I mentioned a while ago that I am rebranding my coaching practice and that I'd gotten some help from a designer with a new logo, card and web page designs.

For a variety of reasons, it is driving me up an ever-loving tree to have no control over the change process. Tragically, my copies of Pagemaker, Illustrator and Freehand are way, way out of date.

I've discovered that I can upgrade to InDesign from my Pagemaker 6.5.

Does it make sense to do so when my greatest need is to create and update promo materials and webpages?

I don't have photoshop and, quite frankly, can't afford to spend much on new tools.


SuziQ - Sep 20, 2007 6:22:42 pm PDT #2813 of 25496
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Is this the new design you showed me? Nice. No help on the tools...but I liked the redesign.


Ginger - Sep 20, 2007 6:29:16 pm PDT #2814 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I get very twitchy if I can't tweak a design, so I know what you mean. What form is it in now?


beekaytee - Sep 21, 2007 5:46:40 am PDT #2815 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant

The graphics person has given me some jpegs, some photoshop files...which I can't use...and a couple of html pages that I can't seem to make work, despite having been perfectly able to do so for my current pages.

The new pages should look like this:
home page
subpage

And yet, when I try to load the html pages my designer got from her designer, it comes out like this:
homepage
subpage

When I tried to cut and page the jpg images into a new business card because the one shown is too expensive to print...not to mention non-standard (doesn't fit anywhere)...AND, when I asked for the names to be changed they changed the logo but not the contact info... t /rantypants I used appleworks to create a new pdf but the end result was terribly fuzzy.

I'm so frustrated. I can DO this stuff but I don't seem to have the right tools and, as stated above, not so much with the funds. Plus, time is tick-tocking away. I really need to get these materials out into the world.

Thanks for the good thoughts Suzi. I really like to new design too. I'd like it even better if I could get it to work!


DXMachina - Sep 21, 2007 5:59:42 am PDT #2816 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I've discovered that I can upgrade to InDesign from my Pagemaker 6.5.

Does it make sense to do so when my greatest need is to create and update promo materials and webpages?

Probably not if you're happy with Pagemaker. I have upgraded, and InDesign does add a lot of useful stuff that Pagemaker just couldn't do. I really like that you can change pages just by scrolling down the work space. However, there are a couple of things it does that annoy me. I still use Pagemaker a lot for smaller projects, just because I've been using it for almost 20 years, and I'm used to it.


Jon B. - Sep 21, 2007 6:04:49 am PDT #2817 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Beej -- With the html, it looks to me like you're not linking properly to a stylesheet. The html pages are looking for a stylesheet called "style.css" which doesn't exist (or is in a different path). The same thing may be true with the javascript page "css_browser_selector.js".


Ginger - Sep 21, 2007 6:11:02 am PDT #2818 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

The reason the web pages are opening that way is that the css style is missing. There should be a file called style.css in the same folder as these web pages.

If you'd like a cheaper graphics program, this [link] is pretty good. I end up using both it and Photoshop.

If you send me the jpgs, I'll see what can be done with them. Profile addy is good.

(Inevitable cross post. I neglected to mention the js file, but I think it controls the rollovers.)