Peep in my mind

Picking the right colors for web design can be hard at times. I know I’ve ran in to those days where any color I pick just don’t work with each other. Or I just ran out of inspiration and really didn’t feel like creating another blue or black themed web site. So I go online like most people and start searching the web for great ideas.

As I go through zillions of site with titles like ” Top site for color inspiration” or ” Picking colors the award wining way” I’ve noticed one thing they all use the same colors “blue, white, black” (yes yes black and white is not a color” but I’m sure you get the point). Any hoot enough of my ramblings and time for the meat.

So here my tip on trying to use different colors. Try using the color explore from Behr, Benjamin Moor, or whatever paint matching application you can find online and start picking some colors. What I like about these applications is that they pick some nice accent colors where you can start working with to generate your overall web theme. Another bonus is that the colors that are generated are nice and soft and easy on the eyes.

Well I hope you all give this a try. With some minor tweaks and adjustment you’ve got a great start on your next web site that is not blue.

I thought I would share with you all one of the best drinks in the world.

1oz Sambuca
1oz Kahlua
1oz Blue Curacao
1oz Bailey’s Irish Cream

1. Pour the Sambuca and Kahlua into martini glass.
2. Light the glass on fire, and start drinking it with a straw.
3. As the person is drinking it pour the Blue Curacao and Irish Cream together.
4. Drink it all till its gone Cheers!

Scanning can be very beneficial in every stage of your design; it can greatly decrease your design time in the early stages or help you through quality control in the latter. Let me give you an example. Say you made a prototype part and you’re ready to create CAD? You could quickly scan your part, start surfacing the data and have your scan as reference to make sure it’s accurate to your real model (imaging surfacing the part above +/- 0.05mm with out any scan data.).

Mid-way through the process hand changes where made to the part/tool. How would you justify the change? You could CMM a few points or quickly scan the object (the part above took 5min) with billions of points it can accurately show what has changed when compared back to CAD.

Oh and the billions of points makes it really nice to see what going on with your part. Hopefully this has been a good intro to implementing scanning in to your product design. The part above took me roughly 2 hours to scan and generate a cad model (Not bad for +/- 20 microns).

1. Download XAMPP you can download XAMMP or light version doesn’t matter.

2. Install in your C drive You can skip the next few steps if you want if you’re not installing WPMU

a. C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\host change localhost to localhost.enter_a_name

b. Go To apache\conf\httpd.conf

c. Change

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
to
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Continue with WP/WPMU install.

3. Download wordpress or wordpress-mu extract the files into your c:\xampp\htdocs dir.

4. Now run C:\xampp\xampp-control.exe and click on start button for apache and mysql.

5. Open your web browers and enter in the url: http://localhost/ or http://localhost.enter_a_name if did steps a, b, and c.

6. Select a language and click on phpMyAdmin.

7. In the Create new database fields enter wordpress and select utf8_unicode_ci and hit the create button.

8. Change url to http://localhost /your_word_press_folder/ or http://localhost.enter_a_name/your_word_press_folder/ in the Database section enter the following

Database Name:wordpress

User Name: root

Password: erase whatever is there and leave blank

Database Host: Leave it as “local host”

9. Fill in your Site Details and press Submit and your done!

1. Create black background.

2. Create New Layer and draw white lines to define shape.

3. Give it a Gaussian Blur (just blur it so that it’s nice and soft and you can still kind of see the strokes).

4. Filter\Other\Maximum to give it some shape for the center of the smoke lines

5. Duplicate the smoke Edit\Transform\Warp and Warp it a little to make it look more natural.

6. Apply a Twirl filter Filter\Distort\Twirl.

7. Adjust the opacity and you should have your smoke.

Another animated theme I made its the shot after the big Sasuke and Naruto fight.

Feel free to post it anywhere but please put a link back to “http://peepinmymind.com/” Thanks!

Download Link:
Animated Naruto Sasuke Z610 or 176×220 Resolution Theme

I recently made this animated Wow Wrath of the Lich King theme for my cell phone and thought I would share.

Feel free to post it anywhere but please put a link back to “http://peepinmymind.com/” Thanks!

Download link:

World of War Craft Wrath of Lich King Z610 or 176×220 Resolution Theme

World of War Craft Wrath of Lich King W580 or 240×320 Resolution Theme

1. Go to File\Scripts\Load Files into Stacks… (This option will add all your image in as one file with separate layers).
2. Add all your images that you want in the animation.
3. Open the Animation Palette from Window\Animation
4. Click on the Flyout Menu on top right corner of the animation window and select Make Frames from Layers
5. Adjust the timing of each frame by selecting the 0 sec. on the frame

To save as animated Gif
Go to File\Save For Web & Devices Choose your Image Settings and Looping Options
Click Save.

To save as a Movie for Flv, IPhone, IPod, Quick Time, MPEG4 and so on
Go to File\Export\Render Video Choose your Settings.
Click Save.

So after an hour of pulling my hair out wondering why my image won’t display on my categories page. My theme had set my Categories or Archive page to display in summery mode. To change this or any of your page from summery mode back to a regular post. You have to find the code.
“the_excerpt” change to “the_content” to display the full article.

In my case I found it in the “archive.php”

Ingredients:

8 Ounces of your favorite Dark Chocolate (or Chocolate of your choice)
4 Large Eggs
1 Cup of Flower
¾ Cup (11/2 sticks) Unsalted Butter
1 Shot of Espresso
1 Teaspoon of Vanilla

Steps:
1. Whisk the Melted Butter and Sugar until they are blended.
2. Whisk the 4 Eggs one at a time in to the Butter Mixture.
3. Whisk in your shot of Espresso and Vanilla.
4. Whisk in your Flower till all your ingredients are nicely blended.

5. Pre-Heat oven to 450 Degrees and Butter up your Soufflé Dishes.
6. Pour your cake Mixture in to the dishes and add a piece of your favorite Chocolate in the center of each cup.
7. Turn oven down to 350 Degrees and bake for 8 – 10 min.