Monday, May 3, 2010


This is a screen shot from my splash page right now showing a link to one of the iweb sites that was created on my laptop.

I drew this figure that I enjoyed using alot, it had a grunge feel and look, and it is in the background of the splash page that all my sites are on.  I used the graffiti type font for the explanation of each site because i believe it lended itself the grunge feeling of the layout and feel of the splash page.
Using photoshop I did some editing and customizing of the website to give it my own feeling.  I like the rugged look of the template, but really only wanted two columns.  I figured with the content being type, video and photos, the simplicity of the website would take nothing away from the actually content.

I took the picture with a pencil behind my ear which is how I normally golf, the pencil being to keep score and track of the putts and other things.  I again like the handwriting font that is in the header, that was done in photoshop to give the site a natural feeling, like the RSS feed and everything else including the photos which look like polaroids.
This again, is a small piece of the wordpress site that I, in detail, customized.

It was just your basic orange RSS feed button, I turned it into a green with a different color, and made it look like there was actually grass on the button to replicate a natural grass surface, like a golf course.

I than change the actual type to replicate handwriting, and the paper reminded me of a scorecard, so it made sense for me to put the handwriting type there, which brings back the real, live feeling that I wanted for the whole site to have.
I have also decided with all the video that I will be shooting that I will have a video of the week.

Basically this will be a video of great triumph or dispair, which lets face it with me and my friends, look for the humorous tragedies a lot  more often.

Should be very interesting.
This is just a snippet of the video library that I can now upload my videos through youtube directly and than put them in the widget that I downloaded from the wordpress site.

I first thought of doing some brief editing maybe some background music, which I still may, but for some reason I like the raw look of the youtube videos without any editing at all.

Since, like I said before, most of the people I play with have bad tempers, as well as I, there is some swearing which I thought would be funny to bleep as if it were on tv...

So instead of doing that, just beware when watching the videos..
My last post exclaimed that I can now post a video library to my website.  Golfing with a different group of people with a wide range of skill, should make for some pretty interesting video.  Their and my lack of skill along with our anger problems should definitely make for comedic videos that will capture the moments only 4 people would normally see.

It's a nice little window, I think, into the golf world where for me some of the funniest things happen.  Im glad using the iphone 3gs, and flip, that I can share this information.
This is a portion of my wordpress site. This plugin that I downloaded connects directly to twitter and pushes any updates of statuses that I do to my website.

I figured this would be helpful since I can set up my phone where I can update my status on twitter while on the course to give my blog site about golf, a "live" feeling along with the video and pictures of each round.