Land of Painted Sky » Web http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog Illustration and Web design in the land of painted sky Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:03:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Golakes Webby Awards http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2008/04/10/golakes-webby-awards/ http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2008/04/10/golakes-webby-awards/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:01:13 +0000 sarah http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/?p=186 Our company flagship website that we all had a little bit to do with has been nominated for a webby award! Martin and Lee worked on it most and it was designed by some posh agency… but I did design the layouts on some of the pages! :) So I feel proud of all the guys that worked really hard on it from work, (and a little 1% bit proud of myself) anyway, if you can be bothered to log in, go vote for golakes in the tourism category of the webby awards! :)

]]> http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2008/04/10/golakes-webby-awards/feed/ 0 Scary image litigation? http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2008/01/16/suing-as-a-business-plan/ http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2008/01/16/suing-as-a-business-plan/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:33:54 +0000 sarah http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/?p=175 This is pretty scary,

As people in our office are aware coz we’ve been shouting about it, certain stock image libraries are suing left right and centre about images on websites, particularly from sxc. So if you aren’t sure you have the rights for any images on your websites, best make sure you have or remove them before the bots hunt you down and charge you £1500 for a teensy thumbnail. It seems to be a big part of their business model, they buy up image gallerys after people have already used them as well and sue them afterwards.

Here are some forum posts about it.

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=390902

Apparently this one is too.

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=445041&highlight=getty

So be aware.

Apparently its not illegal and they are totally within their rights.


]]> http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2008/01/16/suing-as-a-business-plan/feed/ 0 This site now works in IE6 http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2007/06/15/this-site-now-works-in-ie6/ http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2007/06/15/this-site-now-works-in-ie6/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:05:00 +0000 sarah http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/?p=107 I made all the pngs into gifs, and made sure that everything was floated so that it suits IE6. IE6 is a crap browser, and I kind of deliberately didn’t support it. But I gave in, because it did look dog ugly. It has made it look slightly less nice in firefox. But thems the breaks. I spend all day at work making things work in the millions of different browsers that are out there, and just once I didn’t want to have to worry! lol.

Also I have decided to make this site more web designy, it was always my escape from that, all about the illustration, but lately my passion in web design has been rekindled due to the upcoming web 2.0. SO it would be nice to reach my high website standards with my own website! Lol.

If you are looking at this using IE 6, please at least consider firefox… Its just best at everything.

This website has come such a long way since I first started doing it. I want everyone to see it now, not just people who use a browser I have a preference for. lol.

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]]> http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2007/04/26/online-pinboard/feed/ 0 Welcome to my new website http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2007/03/21/welcome-to-my-new-website/ http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2007/03/21/welcome-to-my-new-website/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:35:31 +0000 sarah http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/?p=58 Well hellooo. I have finally got my new website up! I feel a lot better about this one. It feels very “me” and less “website I do at work”y. :)

I hope you like it! I think I will post some tips up on what to do with css and all the little tricks that I have used at some point. I am determined to make this blog useful to someone! Even if it is just me. So if you see anything here and you want to know how I did it, just ask and I will post the answer up here for the world to see!

We have also successfully moved house! Hooray! So keep a look out over the next few days. I have a million new pictures to put up and a few more tricks to put on this site.

At the moment the site doesn’t entirely work to its best while using IE (6) so swap to firefox, Which is the best. ;) Seriously, I am working on making it work with special stylesheets.. but it is a sucky browser!

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Soon my friends, soon!

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]]> http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2006/09/11/hooray/feed/ 2 Its getting there… http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2006/07/04/its-getting-there/ http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/blog/2006/07/04/its-getting-there/#comments Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:03:33 +0000 sarah http://www.landofpaintedsky.com/index.php/?p=9 I’ve been making lots of changes to the site over the last couple of days, So I’m sorry if you’ve come on here and its seemed a little broken. Hopefully I can keep expanding on the functionality, so next time my computer breaks it won’t matter so much! lol. I haven’t got an image gallery that I like, I might have to try and put one together myself! I have now got a downloads page, with a few new desktops if you are interested! Let me know if you have one set as your desktop… Use my commenty thingy. I promise its not signing your soul away or anything.

I have also uploaded a couple of canvases I’ve been working on to the art section.

Heart WarsTricanvasSay hello to the heart demon, telly head with his arm chopped off, some bug bombs a robot with a laser coming out of his eye and a creepy bunny.

This guy is spread across 3 canvases. Its like a jigsaw puzzle for dumbos.

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