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: