Midnight Cheese

This is a shameless plug, but I wanted to mention our most recent DVD project that we finally wrapped up at work. The DVD is called Prepared to Survive and contains a ton of information about being prepared when you venture out into the wilderness for any period of time. You can read all about it and watch some clips from the DVD at lifeviewoutdoors.com.

I don’t feel there’s a ton to say about the new site design, but I wanted to mention that I liked the idea of using a footer area which I first caught wind of here, via SimpleBits. It’s nice to somewhat break the notion of the two column layout which is so popular these days. Midnight Cheese is the most consice I’ve ever had it now that the webcam and about pages are both rendered through WordPress.

I’m generally obsessed with a clean and open layout, but I tried to counter that with the background image. With the new design I’ve tried to meld elements of print and digital design together. The serif font that makes up the logo and the footer, plus the rolled on look of the black Midnight Cheese on the background image and the 3 squares which loosely reference the CMYK process are all print elements. Obviously the pixels and the black and white bitmap pattern in the background are of the web side of things.

Ernie, I thought about it for a while, but finally found an appropriate answer for not displaying the post headers in the same font as the header font. The Midnight Cheese font in the header is serving as the logo for the site, and since this is the case, it is extremely rare that you would see body copy (print or electronic) match that of a logo.

Overall I’m very pleased with the new look, and I expect it to stick around for a good amount of time. I’ll be adding a few more minor elements here and there soon.

NBC began offering Nightly News to viewers online, yesterday. I enjoy watching the nightly network news, but I’m usually at work or driving home at 5:30 when the show airs. So this is great for us 9-5ers in the Central Time zone. M$NBC is even offering a Mac feed, now. Good for them. Earlier today you had to be running IE 6 or you got nothing.

So Merredith and I decided to meet up after work at her house before catching dinner and a movie. She’s running a bit late, so I’m sitting in my car in her driveway borrowing the neighbor’s wi-fi to post this message. I’m sure there’s something to be said for this, but I’m afraid what that might be.

Took this shot at Radnor Lake this afternoon just after lunchtime.

Ouch. I hate sack pain. Nice headline from this morning’s yesterday’s Tennessean sports section.

Photos from Ernie’s show.