Posts in category: porcupine colors
This is the new porcupine colors. Fresh and “city-fied”.
It has been 2 and a half years since the last re-design. In such a period a whole life could be changed, so why not a website?
The new version of the website aims to take advantage of the flexibility of Expression Engine, which runs in the background. Indeed, almost all pages embrace a different layout, especially the work area.
The excellent illustration has been created by Helen Gizi, a good friend and also a great illustrator. I think her sketches make the website even friendlier but most of all they let it tell a story. That’s why I found this illustration work absolutely essential.
I am pretty happy of this work. I hope it will help our tiny studio get noticed again in the world map and move on.
Here’s to it.
High Quality Bookmarks or hqbk is a pet project I developed some months ago. It aims to provide great links which deserve to be amongst your bookmarks. hqbk cares mostly about technology, design, lifestyle and science.
Until yesterday the website published content in Greek. Not anymore. From now on hqbk is an 100% English website.
Visit it or even better subscribe to its RSS feed. It won’t disappoint you.
Happy news.
Previously I randomly mentioned the CMS that makes this website and some of the projects we have developed, Expression Engine. From now on I will have one more reason to do so, because from now on porcupine colors is the only Greek web agency which belongs in the Professionals Network of Expression Engine.
To me Expression Engine is a great tool but I understand that many people never had the chance to realize this. I won’t say much. I only want to add that you can find in the Pro Network some of the most important design agencies such as Happy Cog, Blue Flavor, Erskine Design, Mark Boulton and many more.
If you dare, refresh some times the central page of the Pro Network and you maybe see this logo among the ones I just mentioned.
I love Expression Engine because it’s flexible and at the same time powerful and solid. Each time I needed it it was there for me and I never worried whether I could cope with a project thanks to it.
This is what I write at the relevant page where our studio is presented. It is the plain truth.
The best is yet to come.
After a long time, I managed to publish the work section of this website. It is not complete, but this is minor.
Go, explore it, if you feel like.
A new project is on air, the CSS3 website. CSS3 is an online magazine for Greek people who are professionally engaged to the Web.
Such people could be designers, developers, marketers, bloggers, tutors etc. We aim to create and publish helpful content for them and make their Web life easier and more fruitful. We want to involve readers in the project, so we wholeheartedly encourage visitors to send us their articles and see them being published.
CSS3 is being developed and supported by a dream team of designers and developers and I must say I feel lucky I work with these people.
As I implied before, CSS3 is a project for Greek people only, so if it all sounds Greek to you, you ‘re right. It is Greek. For the rest of you dear readers I can only say, do visit us and play with us.
Just like I promised, the fresh porcupine colors is here. The new design now is the same with the one in the Greek website.
Some of the areas of the website are still empty, but I will soon take care of them, so please be patient. There are also some minor bugs, which they should definitely be ignored as well.
porcupine colors begun as a blog but it soon grew up. It never stopped being my virtual home and that’s why I love it so much. At the same time, porcupine colors is a design studio. We are a small but effective team and we aim to make a living by designing and developing websites and Web applications. This website should cover both things.
We are pretty happy because the greek website is getting popular and it remained both hospital and an agency website. We ‘d love to see this version becoming the same.
So here it is dear readers. I ‘d be very happy if you like it.
P.S. Don’t forget to subscribe to the new RSS Feed. Just click on the guy with the newspaper up and left on the page. That’s all.
It’s been a while since my last entry in the weblog. This is because I was wholeheartedly dedicated to the redesign/realign of the Greek version of my website.
The new edition could remind you a newspaper or that was my intention. You might also detect some marvelous sketch work. OK, enough said.
Go, take a look at the Greek porcupine colors website. And tell me if you like it at all.
Lifestream idea is an effort to scan the daily activities of the owner of a website. If he writes something in his blog, the particular activity is recorder and displayed at the Lifestream page. If he uploads a photo in Flickr, the Lifestream page can present it too. And so on.
So we are actually talking about an aggregator which works just for one. The aggreagator collects data and displays them at the relevant page. Sounds simple. No? Anyway, the idea behind lifestreams is quite interesting. I think that it could work not only for people but for companies as well.
I first heard about lifestreams at the website of J. Keith. Since then I made some efforts to create my own but I didn’t make it until today. So here it is my own stream. (It has been added to the menu as well.) Right now I collect information from this website (posts and comments), Ma.gnolia (my bookmarks), Flickr (my pictures) and Last.fm (my music). I am thinking of adding more services by time.
The specific page is a bit heavy, because I wanted to style it a different way than the rest website. It is an experiment anyway.
[UPDATE 08 Oct.] There is an enhancement in my LifeStream. An RSS Feed so you can spy my activities without having to visit this site.
You can grab it from the Homepage or the LifeStream page.
The most important Greek IT magazine, RAM, this month includes an article about this site and my participation in ILG (International Liaison Group).
I have written several times about ILG. In a few words it is a group consisted by Web professionals who aim to promote standards to ensure an equitable Web.
The article is written (in Greek) by Ms Irini Voutskoglou (aka diVa). Irini approached me very politely and very professionally. Her interest is real and the way she treated the whole thing is great.
Unfortunately, the magazine is in Greek so there are not many things you can do in order to read it in case you wanted to.
Anyway, I ‘d like to thank Ms Voutskoglou for everything she did for me. Irini, thanks a lot.
I recently wrote about 404 error pages, what they are about and why we should take good care of them. The 404 error page of this website was among the best selected by Smashing Magazine.
Let me say a few words about Smashing Magazine: it is an online magazine which is relatively new. However, the quality of the articles it contains made it tremendously famous in a few months. It mainly covers issues about Web design and it presents excellent content such as beautiful websites, excellent software or handy scripts.
Being amongst the best was a great surprise for me and it also a good way to return to work after summer vacations. You need such fuel from time to time to carry on.
[Update]
CSS Juice selects 20 weblogs with monochrome style. porcupine colors is one of them.
CSS Juice is another magazine which presents tutorials, code snippets and websites around CSS and not only. I was greatly surprised because I never mentioned my website to the magazine. What makes me even more happy is the fact that all designs are awesome. Thank you CSS Juice!
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