Art of Adam Betts v1 design.

Boom, no more hockey puck.

The new plan for this updated weblog is:

• One post per year (two if the weather outside is beautiful.)
• Less texts, more pixels (less bad grammars, woot!)
• Fixes for IE browser. *sigh*

Visit The Art of Adam Betts 1.0

Upcoming new web design that’ll make current one look like iBook Clamshell.

It’ll use lovely WordPress engine.

Oh and I’m finished with World of Warcraft :)

New website design for World of Warcraft guild ‘The Mafia’.

http://www.themafia-guild.com/

This one is a little old (Jan 2006) but I want to post it here anyway since very few people know about it. All pages other than front page are pretty much incomplete or unchanged from default template so don’t bother checking them. Coder I worked with were pretty busy with his real life so he couldn’t finish them all :(

MacThemes.net is featuring an Insider piece on the history of MacThemes.net.

The Creation of MacThemes.net

Check them out if you want to see how the site design progressed from draft to final.

New website design for our World of Warcraft Guild ‘Reservoir Dogcows’.

http://www.dogcows.net/

Moof! :)

Update: They changed web engine to different one than Geeklog and is now different looking. You can visit my mirrored site with full design at
http://homepage.mac.com/adambetts/website/dogcows
If you’d like to see what forum look like, click all links with (<–Working Link) tag. Note: this is a fake site for design preview purpose so you'll see a lot of incomplete and non-working elements.

As per request, most of the comment spams are sent to a galaxy far, far away.

If you still see some spams around here, be sure to let me know!

Hmmm, can you smell some pixels cooking? :)

Here’s what I’ve been doing lately..

After I’m done with most business projects, I’ll shift my attention to personal projects. It’s been a long time since I’ve done an icon set, OS X theme, etc :(

When I first heard of Dashboard in upcoming Tiger Mac OS X, my initial thought was meh, not for me but I was wrong. It’s amazing that any web designers / developers can easily develop a widget using just XHTML / CSS for interface. No Javascript or XML bullshits.

Look at the source code of Stickies widget for an example of how it’s done. Here’s a compressed version of the whole things including plists. (Thanks to Erik Veland for posting them)

I think comparing Dashboard to Konfabulator is a little silly. Read this well-written article from Daring Fireball. He explained why better than anyone can.

If you’re a developer looking to build some decent, full-featured widgets such as Dictionary, etc., send me an email! I’m itching to contribute some graphics.

Up now at Apple Motion – Quick Tour

Jaw-dropping simplicity! The attention to details is truly amazing.

While I don’t use any third-party Photoshop Plug-Ins such as Eye Candy, Xerofex, etc, they do have a bad name for “cheating” the graphics. To me, this is not exactly true because Plug-Ins are created to assist you completing the graphics, not becoming the center of attention like many thought. There’s no such thing like one click = finished piece.

If you want to use third-party Plug-Ins, go ahead! But.. make sure that applied plug-ins only steal less than 10% of attention in finished piece. The more attention it steals, the more amateur it looks. If you don’t want it to look too generic, customize the applied graphic separately by smudging, lowering contrast/saturation, etc until to a point where they doesn’t look too “plugins-ish”.