New Website Sneek Peek

[Rusty]

Just a home page layout and design. I'll be adding the additional pages and sections in the next few days with a launch in Jan.

http://www.severitydesign.com/etc

[Tracie Pannell]

Looking good Rusty!  Thank you for all of your hard work on redesigning the site.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Rusty <rusty.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just a home page layout and design. I'll be adding the additional pages and sections in the next few days with a launch in Jan.

http://www.severitydesign.com/etc

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[LF Gibson]

Wahoo, we's going to be stylin' in 2013!!! ;-)) 

[Dean Pannell]

Where are all the blinky things?
Shouldn't there be blinky things?
And tons of flash?

Can a website be good if it doesn't make your eyes hurt and wonder how
the %%@$?# you do what you're trying to do or find what you're trying
to find?

Just another perspective.

[LF Gibson]

Ha ha Dean.... yes, we also need a MIDI file to play music with no way for the visitor to 'turn it off'.  tee hee.

[Rusty]

Deans kidding right? :/

[Tracie Pannell]

Yup!!  He's kidding big time.

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[Tom Printy]

Looks nice!

[Dean Pannell]

Oh my --

If that's not obvious, I'm doing something REAL BAD WRONG!
The site looks very good.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Rusty <rusty.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Dean Pannell]

Laurie Faith --

I can't believe I forgot about MIDI!

Yeah, that too!

(Show of hands from everybody who mourned the passing of FrontPage)
;0)

[Rusty]

Dean its not you, its me. Lets just be friends...:)

On Friday, December 21, 2012 2:32:21 PM UTC-6, Rusty wrote:

[Dean Pannell]

Seriously, though -- it does look very good.

[John Uhri]

I think the banner should read "Programmer's Hour" (with apostrophe).

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[Rusty]

thanks John, I'm a horrible speller!

[Jeffrey Pierce]

Looks good! Sorry for the ignorant question, but Is the blue power button the official ETC logo, or just a placeholder?

Jeffrey

On Friday, December 21, 2012 2:32:21 PM UTC-6, Rusty wrote:

[Rusty]

official....

[Rusty]

Jobs Posting Section...http://severitydesign.com/etc/jobs/

[m...@darrenholland.com]

I was hoping that it was just a placeholder. 

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[Rusty]

Darren where did you get your PHD? (Playa Hater Degree)

[m...@darrenholland.com]

The school of hard knocks. The logo looks more like an icon for a mobile app. 

[Michael Copeland]

Yes! Now you see how versatile it is.

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[Darren Holland]

generic != versatile

[Dean Pannell]

As I think more about it, I think the logo should incorporate an Edsel grille.
Or maybe not.

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Michael Copeland <mscop...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Dean Pannell]

So -- Darren --- and this is a serious question, not a rejoinder:

Got any good alternative ideas?

I think you make an excellent point about conflating generic and versatile.

On the other hand, a "Power me up" button does neatly convey what the
ETC is supposed to be about.
Of course, in the vein of "everybody's a critic", I think it would be
neat if we could make it seem to glow in the fashion of a lighted
button on switched-on device, but that's a rather small nit to pick,
and -- for all I know -- would look stupid.

[Michael Copeland]

We already had a meeting about logo design and website. Everyone was invited.  From those who attended, what you see was what decided upon.

Think about what ETC is and what it helps people and businesses to do.

[Dean Pannell]

Excellent point, Michael.

[Mark Zeman]

I dig the new logo. Also the new look and feel.
-mz

[Dean Pannell]

I have to agree -- wait! I already did!

But y'know -- it's like agile software design: Sometimes the big
revelations don't happen til you've got it in your hands.
We all have something (whether we admit or not) that makes us go,
"Wow, that's really cool! I just wish they'd..."
Human nature.
Can't be helped.

We must also remember a couple of things:

1. Nothing is every going to make everybody 100% happy.
2. Perfect is the enemy of good, and maybe even the enemy of great.
At some point you just have to say, "Man, this is pretty good. I like
it."

[Rusty]

I actually produced 5 different concepts and this was what was chosen. Also keep in mind, generic=FREE. BP spend 3.5 million dollars for their logo design...I'm just way too expensive for ETC. I produce generic logos for my customers all the time who don't have the budget to spend on the serious research, sketching and custom work that goes into producing quality logo designs. ETC can always update the logo in the future, but I think this is simple, clean and 10x's better than what we previously had. :)

[Jeffrey Pierce]

I would be glad to render this as vector art for 1- and 2-color print use, if that's something we need. 

Mainly need to know the name of the font, and if its negative tracked or anything.

If you got that covered, great ... 

Jeffrey Pierce

[Michael Copeland]

We will be setting up the ETC Academy for Spring classes and will probably need some print material created. Vector might be good for printing, even screen printing too.

[Dean Pannell]

Sorry, Rusty -- I disagree.

16.73 X better.

[Mary Beth Huffman]

there's nothing attached.

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[Francisco M]

Hi guys,

Happy New Year.

I just wanted put in some quick initial feedback about the ETC website content.

I think the power button is definitely a great idea and it would be a big plus to have the power button glow.

I queried google images with "glowing power button" and I saw there were a ton of great ideas.

 

Also, the image of the front of the tower building on the ETC landing page is also a must have.

When people land on the new webpage, they immediately see that the Elgin Tech Center is associated with the Elgin Tower versus the old webpage where it wasn't immediately clear where or what the Elgin Tech Center was for someone new to the site.

However, the "fogginess" should be avoided (on the right). It should be a crisp clean image.

 

I also recommend to give the picture or the building itself, a warm tone instead of a monotonish (b&w) image.

I did a quick screen shot of the image and played around with the tone and sharpened the detail a little.

I used Corel Paint Shop Pro.

The Tower has some extraordinary detail that should be brought out and proudly displayed vividly.

It would have been nice to be able to show the American Flag.

 

The image is attached to this email as a jpg.

(The blue color on the power button was lost/dissappeared while I made the adjustments)

 

-Francisco

 

 

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[gelde...@aol.com]

Looks pretty impressive.  You guys are really out there doing a great job.  We do not need to be perfect, just get some accurate and accessible data for customers to view.  After a few iterations, we may end up being a model for others.
DON

[Rusty]

Thanks Francisco I like the glowing button idea...

[Rusty]

Website is now live. http://www.elgintechnologycenter.com. Full tech calendar with feed from Meetup...

[Tom Printy]

NIce job! 

I like the gallery! you might want to remove the 1 image that is not from the floor :)

-T

[Tracie Pannell]

It does look very nice.  Thank you for all of your hard work on this Rusty.  Thank you for making it happen!!

Tracie

Tracie Pannell
Dinotrac, Inc.
(630) 403-8148

100 E. Chicago Street
Suite 201
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[Dean Pannell]

Agreed.
Not only is it cool -- but it's a good advertisement for both the ETC and Rusty.
What a lovely idea -- the ETC providing avenues for members to
highlight the kinds of things we can do.

That can't be a bad thing.

Dean

[Rusty]

@Tom..ETC apparently advertises for the whole Tower. There may be tech businesses that don't fit on our floor, but other floors are available.