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The unpublished XaraXone layout
This is a little weird sharing these designs here, but also a sense of appropriateness is in the front of my pinhead, too. I was asked several times about updating the look of Xara Xone when I was working the site. Unfortunately, the video tutorials usually took up so much of each month producing, it was going to be "either/or", and content won over new layout.
I did have a second look for Xara Xone, but never had the time to publish it; WordPress isn't as simple as clicking File>Publish Website! :)
The original paradigm was a scrapbook, and it played well with some, not so well with others. I came up with an American Supermarket paradigm for the unpublished design: we have little shops within a supermarket, each with its own identity, but a cohesive theme is needed, "all under one roof", so to speak. The Home page...
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The Tutorial page is harmonious with the top page:
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The Giveaway page was as far as I'd designed. Two things I wanted to accomplish were to get the sales icon links out of the margins and into the page, with a "soft sell" tag of copy with them. I also had an idea to show a different extruded shape each month for the inline advertisement for Xara 3D, or whatever it's called now:
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And the section headers were finished I spent a lot of time with fonts and looking at kiosk signs in malls to get a sense of what a "little shop", a boutique would look like:
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I think my limitation comes from years in visual communications. I try to put a message in graphics, and that is not a good fit for a commercial website.
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Re: The unpublished XaraXone layout
Your creativity and talent has no limits!
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Yo! Yo! (Brooklyn greeting)
Thank you, Boy and Ron,
It's "Yo-Yo" theme today. Later, I'm going to listen to Yo Yo Ma play the cello.
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My other entry is a tribute to Leonardo of Vinci, a very funny guy once you get to know him, in the Gary's non-Art Xara Gallery, here
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Re: Yo! Yo! (Brooklyn greeting)
When I was a kid, a Duncan Yo-Yo champion came to my home town. if you took your Yo-Yo to him, he would carve your name and some design on the Yo-Yo, they were beautiful. Wish I still had it. Thanks for the memory Gare,
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Re: Yo! Yo! (Brooklyn greeting)
Hey, Larry—
I'm totally with you on the Art of Yo-ing. I bought a wooden one, all organic you might say (!) about 3 years ago from Lee Valley and am trying to re-learn all the moves from 40 years ago! Oh, there's a nifty ball-bearing one there, too.
I needed to design something, in the World of Bitmaps, to demonstrate a selection technique called "select by color", and so I did this illustration/render form a model, but was thinking about you, Larry:
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My Best in both ups and downs,
Gary