Ok boys and girls, I’m gonna launch this to the real world for a few hours so you - the faithful reader can test it all out for me. (hehe there’s always an ulterior motive!) There’s still a bit of work to do but believe it or not, I am on top of it all. Please feel free to leave your comments and if anyone can help me with why the Asides titles are not showing up on the sidebar - I will be forever grateful. It’s got me absolutely stumped and I have no idea how I can fix it.
Bugwatch:
- Page feels much snappier & faster in Safari. Sluggish performance in Firefox and weird cache issues
- Asides tiles in Sidebar do not appear
- Weird alignment of Feed icons in Safari sometimes
- Weird font flickering in Firefox when selecting links
I’ve been wanting to start over with Dogmatic for quite a while now. Online since April of 2003 in various incarnations, I felt it had become a bloated, sluggish beast that needed a facelift both cosmetically and content wise. Although it collated a fair historical slab of my life over the past few years, it is a chapter that has now closed and I wanted a new beginning.
At one brief point, I considered shutting shop but in all honesty, I enjoy the blog and the contacts it has allowed me to make. It’s fun to maintain and I find it to be a creative outlet in times of inspiration seeking.
If Dogmatic was to continue however, it would have to adorn a new coat of paint and take a (slightly) more radical approach to how and what I blog about. In essence, I needed to strip it back and get rid of the obesity that was insanely clogging its arteries.
I decided to flush it all and start all over again.
I hope to introduce a little bit more of me this time round and all the projects I am involved with be it my photography or design. My usual slab of interests will still be covered and the essence and spirit of the original Dogmatic will always remain.
The blog is powered by Wordpress. The theme is my version of K2 and I have called it Illuminati. It features photography by yours truly and is proudly hosted by Dreamhost.
Welcome to hell, kiddies!
A work-in-progress: The site that won’t see the light of day
Back in September of 2003, I was contacted by South Florida’s Gods And Monsters. The guys were a young up and coming band and upon a recommendation from Universal Records sought out myself to design and develop their new site. Since September, I had developed a great working relationship with the band’s lead singer, Joshua Reed, and we proceeded to build the band’s site piece by piece. I was very proud of where the site was heading and we were all looking at a February 1, 2004 release. Today I received contact from Joshua who informed me that the band would be calling it a day. The site would, obviously, not be going ahead. It felt like I had just been kicked in the guts. I was bitterly disappointed as there had been hours and hours poured into this project. I wasn’t disappointed in the financial loss of this project - even tho the band had paid us for the work we had done so far - but I was most disappointed that this site won’t ever be completed. The entire site was being constructed in Flash - and featured some wonderful animations of various ‘insects’ and ‘beetles’ scurrying around the design at certain moments. The site was developing into something very atmospheric and I was very confident it would have been a wonderful site.
I’ve spent the past 20 of 24 hours sick in bed with an ungodly virus which has rendered me a sickly and vomiting wretch. I felt a little bit better today and got out of bed to check my emails and what not. There was one email from a band called Dopestars Inc who were enquiring about Marilyn Manson’s Posthuman Records record label. I emailed them back to inform them that Manson’s label went bellyup sometime in 2001. Anyway I decided to check out the band’s website as I am want to do. I was quite shocked when I saw that the band’s site was a *direct* ripoff of the Godhead site we had developed at dogbite media sometime ago. I mean… this was an exact rip! I guess I should feel flattered but in a way, it does piss one off somewhat. I guess if they can live with themselves then fine.
The site I designed for Godhead in 2003
The ripoff Dopestars Inc website
You be the judge!
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