Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…

Art and Graphics

How they integrate w/ computers.

I played with WordPress yesterday and, if you’ve been here before, you can see the results. I changed to a three column layout and modified the header block so its a big ol’ image. I’m not completely crazy about the colors – they don’t look so good on my LCD […]

New WP design

Fri November 19, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged Wordpress (updated 7468 days ago)

Last month I stumbled across a color chooser called ColorMixers. Today I found another one: Visibone. This one is a little nicer in that the colors you choose are listed with three letter codes using their color in each other color. In this way you can see how any of […]

Another color chooser for the web

Wed November 17, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged Wordpress (updated 7470 days ago)

I discovered some bugs with the web site I did for my wife’s client when viewed in IE. No big suprise there, except I thought I had checked that. Problem was I’d forgotten I’d already migrated my wife and daughter to firefox to get rid of all that crap that […]

More web design for fun and profit.

Mon November 15, 2004 in Art and Graphics

Chocolate Fountain Creations is now online. This is the web site I rewrote for a client of my wife’s. The original site was down with some template generator and looked awful. It simply wasn’t designed with the clients product focus or intended audience in mind. It took about 8 hours […]

One project down…

Mon November 08, 2004 in Art and Graphics / Software Development (updated 7479 days ago)

I’ve agreed to do my first commercial web site outside of my own and my wife’s. She has a customer with a small business providing chocolate fountains for parties. She also just happens to live just down the street. Anyway, someone else in the neighborhood did her web site but […]

Web design for fun and profit

Sun November 07, 2004 in Art and Graphics (updated 7480 days ago)

I was poking around the WP site looking at links to template and themes when I ran across a site with a link to ColorMatch Remix. Very cool. I’m not a trained artist – I’m a hacker with a hobby. So having access to tools like this is very useful. […]

ColorMatch Remix

Fri October 15, 2004 in Art and Graphics (updated 7471 days ago)