Band Sites Feb 12, 12, 4:30 a.m.

Feel free to point me in the direction of an old thread, but Filter turned up nothing for me.

What are some great band sites that people have stumbled across, either big bands or local ones? Particularly ones that really push it beyond the usual glorified media kit.

From my recent browsings, it seems most bands have quite samey and generic sites - which is surprising given the subject matter.

Customised Pencils Jun 28, 11, 6:16 a.m.

Do and QBNers have any recommendations of who can do *decent* customised pencils, and allow small runs? Want to stick a logo on 50-100 or so.

By decent, I mean better than the glorified golf pencil rubbish that all the sites google churns up sell, with those crappy gold ringed erasers on the end, and a downright horrible to write with. If they're shit to write with, then what's the point.

Google Maps API Feb 19, 09, 6:21 a.m.

Any Google Maps ninjas here?

I've been rocking though the tutorials here http://econym.org.uk/gmap/ to build a basic map for a friend. She's moving to London, and my gf has done up a list of places to check out.

The stumbling block for me though is the sidebar. I can get a list of markers in the sidebar, but what if I want to break that down into multiple lists? ie.

BARS
Bar #1
Bar #2
Bar #3

SHOPS
Shop #1
Shop #2
Shop #3

And body know how to achieve something like that?

It strikes me as something relatively obvious, and yet can't find anything online to explain how one might go about it.

The Stig Jan 20, 09, 4:14 a.m.

Those British newspapers just couldn't let a good thing be and just ruin it for everyone. Bunch of wankers.

iPhone / Wacom interference Sep 28, 08, 4:12 a.m.

Just noticed that interference from my iPhone when there's an incoming call, makes my Wacom tablet go mental. Watch the cursor dance around the screen randomly clicking on stuff.

Granted my iPhone dock is right next to the tablet...

Real Estate Agents Sep 24, 08, 9:06 p.m.

Is it humanely possible for them to not be arse holes?

Face Your Manga Aug 25, 08, 5:38 a.m.

Is anybody else already fucking sick of seeing those stupid "manga" avatars everywhere, or is it just me?

Brand - Plus / Extra / Growth Aug 12, 08, 11:19 p.m.

Does anyone know of some good identities/logos where the brand has expanded on themselves. ie. to indicate large expansion of the company, or to moving into new markets, they tack on a plus or similar indicator to the name and logo?

I'm looking for interesting ways to convey that kind of company extension.

Online Style Guide - Wiki or CMS? Jul 30, 08, 11:54 p.m.

Has anyone developed an online branding style guide for their clients? If so, what did you use to run it - a CMS or Wiki software, or something else entirely?

Custom AJAX Map Jul 27, 08, 8:51 p.m.

Does anyone know of any frameworks or tutorials on how to build a custom interactive AJAX-y map?

Everything I've found is some kind of link with Google or Yahoo Maps, which isn't what I want.

I guess say you wanted to do a map of a shopping centre for example, with all the stores. And have things like tooltips for each store, clicking on a text link to take you to a specific point on the map, switches to turn on and off icons for amenities. That kind of thing.

Cheers

Practical CMS May 12, 08, 8:42 p.m.

We been looking into LightCMS as a means of powering smaller sites that we have developed. All well and good, except for some real pain in the arse restrictions in terms of no PHP, and no way of making your own forms out of their quite limited form builder.

So I've been hunting for alternatives, and can't find a practical alternative. Hosting isn't an issue. It seems the majority of CMS' are geared towards blogging, and lack something as simple multiple editable regions on a single page, and multiple levels of navigation. I just want to have 5 or so main sections, and then each section has a number of pages. Does anyone know a good CMS that allows that, and has a half-decent interface that we wouldn't be scared letting our clients loose in?

Pixish Feb 11, 08, 2 p.m.

http://pixish.com/

Is it just me, or is this just massively organised free pitching?

Grids - Convincing clients Jan 29, 08, 8:24 p.m.

OK, we all know the advantages of using grids for layouts, be it in print or online, but how do you all convince clients and or bosses the value of sticking to them?

It infuriates me constantly when I go to all the effort of setting up a good, flexible grid, and make sure I stick to it through everything, only to get a request for "can you move that one element over just a little bit. I don't care about the grid, do it anyway!". I need a good clear comeback, that an idiot would understand, about why that's bad idea.

Photography guides Jan 11, 08, 11:49 p.m.

Any recommendations on some good books and/or sites for (re-) learning photography?
I did a bit back in Uni days, but now I'm getting back into it, but am very very rusty.

Call me shallow, but I had a look through what Borders had, and just about everything they looked tacky as.

Blog Hosting - Help Oct 21, 04, 8:05 a.m.

I've been hosting my site on .Mac for a while now, but now want to add a movable type photo blog, for which I need php. so I need a new host.

can anyone offer any cheap and reliable suggestions? I'd preferably like a handful of subdomains, and the possibility of hosting 2 or 3 compltely different sites (with different domain names).

I'm not too knowledgable about this, and confused a bit about pointing my domain name to a host properly (it's currently set as a redirector to a site on my iDisk), so some help there is also welcome.

What's Spymac hosting like? http://www.spymac.com/hosting/ would that be suitable for what I want (the cheapest option)? Although the crappy design of the site lowers my confidence meter in them...
also https://www.b-one.net/ ? any thoughts?

cheers in advance

Duotone help Oct 26, 04, 7:55 p.m.

Does anybody know how to do a duotone image - that's mostly plain greyscale, with an area with spot colour?

Basically in this image, the whole think is b+w greyscale, except his shirt, which I want black and yellow. Pantone 129U. This will be printed 2 colour. (the image will be placed into Freehand, with some type overlaid in there)

thanks

Circus photos? Dec 9, 04, 8:23 p.m.

Does anyone have an old circus photo they care to "donate". I'm putting together a site for my band, and just want a large photo (b+w) of an old school circus, big tops of something, to be in the background. The usual stock photo places have been pretty useless. I'll give credit, of course

Insurance company identities? Jan 17, 05, 6:08 a.m.

Anybody got some good identities / logos for Insurance Companies? My research has picked up a few decent big names, and a lot of crap mom&pop ones; but I'm sure I'd be missing some great ones.

Cheers

telco logos Feb 14, 05, 7:17 a.m.

did a pvn search, found nothing.

anyone have any favourite logos / identites for telecommunications companies (either phone companies, or related services)? Particularly successful ones that don't rely on the usual cliches.

photocopy texture Feb 22, 05, 3:55 a.m.

Anybody got some nice (a4, 200dpi+) photocopy toner textures? I need something kind of grungy (but not scrunched up looking), and have no access to a photocopy at the moment. link to a stock site that has one will be good enough ;)

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