Laughs and Logos
Hey people! My blog posts are often multi-faceted, and this one is no different…
First off, for anyone that’s interested, I wanted give a peek at this new website I’m working on; albeit intermittently. It’s called Laughtr (tongue firmly in cheek) and the original idea was my dad’s.
Be warned that this is very much in the bug-infested mockup stage of evolution, but hopefully you can envisage the idea - to put a smile on people’s faces by infectious laughter!
I can’t decide whether to do the back end in Drupal or write it from scratch. Leaning towards the latter. There’s a list of things to implement when I get around to it, such as encoding/downsampling with LAME, ID3 information, not to mention all the front end sound management (which is more complicated than I originally thought). There’s a bit of a right-click menu for adding/deleting laughs from the playlist but Opera stupidly doesn’t allow right-click overriding (funnily enough, IE handles it the best) - so might scrap it or go with a delayed, on-hover menu. But if you have any cool ideas for this site, please let me know!
Second facet…
A friend of mine (who works in a print shop) had a client that needed a logo for her dental clinic - 32 Dental Clinic. So I had a play around in photoshop for 10 minutes and sent it back to her. And voila, they want to use it! Came as a bit of a welcome surprise. Anyway, here’s what scored me a free dental checkup:
Hey Sean - That Laughtr website idea is pretty cool.. but I have to admit some of the laughs made me scared! lol.. especially that baby towards the end.. lol It be cool if you could add in some sort of rating system.. so when you visit the site the top 10 laughs etc.. just a thought.