Gizmodo spotlights 11 of the Weirdest Sites on the Internet, submitted by followers.
This Encyclopedic Site Contains 41 Years of Video Game Console Design | Kotaku. The Wikipedia contributor behind the site, Evan Amos, wants to establish a free, online museum based on his collection.
Developers suggest 17 Sites for Web Design Inspiration | Mashable.
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Google today announced the launch of Web Designer, a new tool for building interactive HTML5 sites and ads. The company first hinted at this launch in June, but had been quiet about it ever since. Web Designer, which Google calls a “professional-quality design tool,” is now officially in public beta and available for download for Mac and Windows.
Library web hosting provider LISHost this month launched Library CMS, a modular, Drupal-based content management system template tailored to the needs of library websites. The move follows the March debut of Prefab, a WordPress-based CMS template designed for libraries by user experience (UX) consultancy Influx. Both are offered in conjunction with web hosting and are positioned as affordable, comprehensive website redesign services for individual libraries and small systems.
See the full article: Two New Services Offer Ready-to-Launch Websites for Libraries | The Digital Shift.
However you choose to approach content in your web work, the lowly lorem ipsum text has certainly inspired a myriad of similar versions. In this post, we cover the most unique and humorous lorem ipsum text generators available, with a preview of each included.
via 56 Unique Lorem Ipsum Generators | Mashable.
Fun just to see all the unique options. My favourites:
How about using auto-generated text that will actually make people love your project even more? With Cupcake Ipsum, you can create a sweet, sugar-coated paragraph of text:
“Cupcake ipsum dolor sit. Amet I love liquorice jujubes pudding croissant I love pudding. Apple pie macaroon toffee jujubes pie tart cookie applicake caramels. Halvah macaroon I love lollipop. Wypas I love pudding brownie cheesecake tart jelly-o. Bear claw cookie chocolate bar jujubes toffee.”
17. Yorkshire Ipsum and Sagan Ipsum.
This is the perfect lorem ipsum generator for Yorkshire folks, and you can even fork and contribute to it on GitHub:
“Ee by gum. Nobbut a lad. Tha daft apeth. Nobbut a lad nobbut a lad mardy bum any rooad by ‘eck. Tell thi summat for nowt soft southern pansy. Where’s tha bin ah’ll gi’ thi summat to rooer abaht tell thi summat for nowt aye. Soft lad t’foot o’ our stairs. Big girl’s blouse will ‘e ‘eckerslike nah then is that thine ne’ermind wacken thi sen up.”
Inspired by the late astronomer Carl Sagan, Sagan Ipsum is a space and cosmos-related dummy text generator:
“Apollonius of Perga extraplanetary. Tingling of the spine. Orion’s sword, rich in heavy atoms cosmic ocean astonishment encyclopaedia galactica tesseract two ghostly white figures in coveralls and helmets are soflty dancing, rich in heavy atoms the only home we’ve ever known how far away.”
8 Resources to Help Build Your Website | Mashable.
Resources discussed include:
With Barley you just edit everything directly, just as if you were working with a document. And by using one of Barley’s templates, you don’t have to deal with layout at all. Pricing is based on traffic and starts at $18 per month.
Currently, Barley is in beta and participation is invite only. “Save your spot” at getbarley.com.
via Barley Aims To Be The Absolute Simplest Way To Create And Edit Websites | TechCrunch.
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