I’ve been publishing web pages for over 12 years now and an advocate of the open source movement. A few years ago I started following the OSWD (open source web design) and have found some really great themes and templates there, actually it’s largely because of reverse-engineering other designers web pages that I’ve learned what CSS, HTML and PHP that I know. Recently I came across some designs that are in my opinion a “quantum leap” beyond anything I’d previously seen.
The template design in Gerhard Wolfgang’s work is extraordinary, like a perfectly balanced composition. As long as there’s incredible programmers him, putting his work into the public domain for others to use and improve, then I’m going to continue taking them up on the offer.
Month: June 2006
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Gerhard Wolfgang
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Vegas Conferences
All webmasters who already do, and those who are interested in promoting and affiliating with online casinos will want to attend this free conference at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. The event is September 12 and 13, 2006 and includes a welcome party the evening of the 12th. There is no admission charge whatsoever for webmasters, and Lunch Buffet and drinks on both days are provided free as well! www.gpwa-conference-2006.com/registration.html
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The Casino Affiliate Convention (Las Vegas 2006) event will focus on global marketing for the Gaming Industry. It will be held on September 14-15, 2006 at the Stardust Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. -
Discipline and Consistency
If discipline and consistency are maintained over a sustained period of time towards a fixed objective, then it stands to reason that a favorable desired outcome would result. Probably one of the hardest things in life is to remain consistent about the things that bring affluence and yet not to lose sight of the day-to-day enjoyment of life and the people in it. There needs to be discipline to keep a good balance but get the work done every day, even when all the things around are extremely distracting. Progress must be made.
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Breakthrough Thinking
We live in a world of compiled ideas, accrued over time, reinvented with applications of old ideas combined with new breakthroughs. Every day pieces of this enormous cosmic jigsaw puzzle fit together, making clear new ideas to manifest into improvements in the things we use to make our lives better, or more comfortable. So many independent minds, adding improvements on so many already effective tools and systems, that we’ve brought this planet and it’s inhabitants to this level of technological sophistication is amazing. Almost every person alive today has the ability latent in them to make the world a better place.
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Enthusiasm and Perseverance
“In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm;
in the real world, all rests on perseverance.”
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Crown & Anchor
My first effort of image development for a web site design started over 10 years ago with the “crown & anchor” which I believe offers image correlation for “invest & offshore”. Back in my early days of learning Photoshop this was a good practice subject, one which I’ve continued to devote time to right up till present day. Now I’m challenged with the task of making all sizes of banners from this icon, and the very difficult small buttons (120×60 pixels). Far from being a graphics wizard, everything comes to me from trial and error.
The Crown & Anchor image featured here, originally started out in the pages of a book about Naval insignia from the library. The symbol from the Dutch Navy is that of an Ensign, was scanned from the book, enlarged and then pixel by pixel transformed to become the icon I’ve used all these years for Invest Offshore.
My favorite colors to use with the crown & anchor are royal blue, gold and purple. Recently the blues and purple colors I’m fond of were found in an image taken from inside a large and powerful breaking wave, which lends the effect of motion and I find the effect to be very pleasing to the eye – see the design mock-up. -
Mind Altering
Over 12 years ago I first started reading the book called Urantia and attended several study groups so I could ask questions and attempt to understand where the book came from, why it was written, by whom, and why more people weren’t reading it? One of the answers that had meaning to me was that it matters not why or who the book was written by but rather how I felt about reading it? and what impact the message would have on me?
Without having read a single page of the Urantia for over 8 years I can say still that it’s amongst the most profoundly effecting things that I’ve ever read, it’s so profound that most people who read it feel no compulsion to promote it afterwards, rather just let new readers find it when they’re meant to. -
Body of Evidence
My writing assignment today is to write something suitable for this Blog’s category “body” and since I’m not feeling inclined to write about my own body, which is getting fitter but fatter, I’ll save that for another article. So I ran a search in Yahoo News of the word “health” and read a round-up of the days news stories related to health. The 2 stories which were news-worthy to me, and relevant to “body” were about Bird-Flu reaching Canada and another article about substance abuse and painkillers in USA.
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Embu das Artes
Rarely I travel in Sao Paulo alone and usually never more than I have to but there’s a place about 45 minutes from my home that I thoroughly enjoy visiting. It’s a little town called Embu das Artes or just plain Embu. We have some good friends living there and they have a house on a 5 acre lot, both of which are prime but the combination is nothing short of exceptional. Getting to the house is challenging because of the many very poor neighborhoods I need to drive across on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, however the destination is worth the risk.
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Invest Offshore
Today marks the beginning of a new project, as an affiliate to the world’s largest Independent Financial Advisory group, specializing in the offshore marketplace and operating in more than 30 countries around the globe. The website Invest Offshore has been slated for a re-design and now with the distinct purpose of promoting information for and about investing offshore with deVere & Partners.