Finally, after much much and I reiterate it again – much – work, I have finally been able to put up the new flucmedia website. We also have a new logo that we will be using going forward – which I think looks pretty cool myself (considering I designed it :D).

Overall, the new company site took around 400-500 hours of work I would think (I am not really exaggerating either because each of the bottom background images took me forever – adding in all the “out of memory” errors and constantly finding overlapping images) but the end product has been definitely worth it I think. There is nothing more satisfying than sitting back after working so damn hard and long on something and going “I am happy with it”. If you also check out the site in IE6 you might notice a special surprise I put in for anyone tempting to visit the site in IE6 – if you want a spoiler you can see it here.

The graphics for this website were all done with painstakingly great detail. There are more than 20 rotating  background images with a width of 3840px and relevant customized CSS – so even the largest screens can enjoy the graphics and browsers can expand far beyond standard sizes. Each background rotates when you select another section of the site and I threw in our company twitter account FlucMedia – although its more really for people leaving feedback – if you want to follow me, much more activity occurs on iamtimdavis.

Overall, really excited about this site and all the hard work that has been put into it. I have learnt so much about User Interface designing, web designing, basic javascript coding and so much more from this process and from the other work we are doing. Although I am not a coder by trade, I would now say that I am definitely a designer and that I can both design and code HTML/CSS and basic JavaScript functionality. I think its a really cool outlet to just go and start designing things and see the creative juices flow in what comes out. I had no idea what the site was going to look like when I started – I was just playing around designing stuff and then the idea for the flucmedia site jumped into my head.

If you want to leave any feedback please provide it and hopefully there are no errors (I tested on basically every browser I could find but I may have missed something). Thanks and hope you love the new site! Exciting things ahead.

Well, I thought you guys might be interested in this since we are getting closer and closer to launching Fluc (although we aren’t releasing a specific date yet!). A few months ago, a number of people emailed me asking whether they could order some Fluc T-Shirts – so I sat down one night and designed a whole bunch which can be seen at the Fluc Store. The main problem was I simply didn’t have the time to organise printing, reconcile billing, ship orders individually and all the other facets associated with t-shirt printing. As we started getting a bunch of people emailing requests to us – our time availability got lower and lower and although we did respond and sent some orders,  the emails kept coming and truth-be-told we simply didn’t have the time. Apologies! 

Well now all those problems have been solved with our new Zazzle Store. We have posted the most requested t-shirts online and you are more than welcome to email us if you want a design that isn’t up on this site yet. Zazzle makes it ridiculously easy for us to manage t-shirt purchases with betting shipping rates, faster turn around times and better printing and shirt quality at cheaper prices. You can order anytime from this site and just to let you know – we make basically nothing per t-shirt as we wanted to keep the costs to you as low as possible. Gosh we are nice!

Feel free to get on and purchase a few tee’s! We ordered a bunch before we made the store public and they really do look insane.

If you’re building a website, webservice or anything to do with the web (or indeed coding in general) – I give you this piece of advice:

“It’s in the implementation that makes a site popular. Not what existed previously. – Tim Davis, June 2008″

Think about this and all the services that have existed, that still exist and that have become popular while other services are still around.

Begs the question -

Are there really truly any new ideas or services, or just new and better implementations of old ones?

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