If your a screen printer like myself you may have seen these at screen printing shops.
The concept of the Flying wing is a good concept. It has a good handle as far as how the squeegee feel because the handle is made in a natural angle of the hands. The handle is pretty easy to clean as well with screen wash so cleaning it is a breeze.
As for the cons I still feel the the flying wing squeegee may be a little to heavy compared to a traditional straight squeegee. If you doing small jobs then its not really a big deal but if your doing a two, three color job at 600- 800 shirts it will take a toll on you.
If they made the squeegee a little lighter or equal to weight to a traditional squeegee then they would have a perfect product.
On the upside if your a beginner getting into screen printing it makes a good product to learn proper stroke angle when you do your prints.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Fire Fox Tips and tricks and reviews
One of the features I love about Firefox is the different keyboard options that you can use to tab on certain pages. For example you can click control t to create a new tab, Control + or minus to zoom in and out.
Control W is to close a tab
Control shift t to open a tab on your browser
And Im sure there are others.
Firefox has a cool plugin to save your bookmarks called foxmarks. Its a plugin that allows you to manage your book marks from any computer.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:22/sort:popular
Control W is to close a tab
Control shift t to open a tab on your browser
And Im sure there are others.
Firefox has a cool plugin to save your bookmarks called foxmarks. Its a plugin that allows you to manage your book marks from any computer.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:22/sort:popular
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Make sure your site is searchable. - a review on a website
Two years ago I was asked by a non profit to examine their website. They asked me why their website was not searchable.
I told them I don't do websites for a living but I was willing to take a look and see how I could help them.
What I found out is that their site's information was in the form of a picture. Don't get me wrong the site was nice but their content was unsearchable. As you know if your in the SEO business you will know that content is king in the search engine world.
Here is what I am talking about. I'm not picking on this company but this is a company that has a good product but their front page is not searchable.
http://www.screentechnique.com/
If you notice their site has the same problem as the non profit. Their graphical layout is pretty decent but you notice if you try to highlight any of their content you find that the content is in the form of a graphic.
A simple remedy for this is to create the graphic and set it as a background or place it in a css style sheet. This would take care of the search function. This is not just only on graphics with text but also look at how your web buttons are layed out. For navigation buttons remember to place an alt tag on the button so that search engines as well as people who use a keyboard to read words will be able to navigate your site. And if your in business you may want to do this. Its the law. I remember Target fell into this issue with their navigation on their website because some of their products didn't not have alt tags and were not searchable.
Remember when creating websites content is king. Graphics supplement your content so make sure your content and your design complement one another.
Have a goodnight but thats my website review for tonight.
I told them I don't do websites for a living but I was willing to take a look and see how I could help them.
What I found out is that their site's information was in the form of a picture. Don't get me wrong the site was nice but their content was unsearchable. As you know if your in the SEO business you will know that content is king in the search engine world.
Here is what I am talking about. I'm not picking on this company but this is a company that has a good product but their front page is not searchable.
http://www.screentechnique.com/
If you notice their site has the same problem as the non profit. Their graphical layout is pretty decent but you notice if you try to highlight any of their content you find that the content is in the form of a graphic.
A simple remedy for this is to create the graphic and set it as a background or place it in a css style sheet. This would take care of the search function. This is not just only on graphics with text but also look at how your web buttons are layed out. For navigation buttons remember to place an alt tag on the button so that search engines as well as people who use a keyboard to read words will be able to navigate your site. And if your in business you may want to do this. Its the law. I remember Target fell into this issue with their navigation on their website because some of their products didn't not have alt tags and were not searchable.
Remember when creating websites content is king. Graphics supplement your content so make sure your content and your design complement one another.
Have a goodnight but thats my website review for tonight.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Inkscape Vector Drawing Free program
Getting into the graphic design does not have to cost 400 - 1000 dollars to get started. With Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw you know these are the standards to vector based drawing.
Today I want to talk about a free open source drawing program called Inkscape. This is a drawing program that was developed by volunteers and continues to be improved on.
If your a Corel Draw user you will see many of the drawing features that Inkscape has to offer. Its a free program so what do you have to lose. Don't take my word for it. Do a search on Google or yahoo and you will see that inkscape is making its name on the vector based drawing circle among graphic designers. So check out out.
http://www.inkscape.org
Today I want to talk about a free open source drawing program called Inkscape. This is a drawing program that was developed by volunteers and continues to be improved on.
If your a Corel Draw user you will see many of the drawing features that Inkscape has to offer. Its a free program so what do you have to lose. Don't take my word for it. Do a search on Google or yahoo and you will see that inkscape is making its name on the vector based drawing circle among graphic designers. So check out out.
http://www.inkscape.org
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Fire Fox review
The firefox browser allows a user to add different plugins such as the weather and other features that are free. The one feature I like from Firefox is that from time to time the browser to tell you when an update is available. Unlike Internet explorer the only way to get updates is when you do an update for the whole windows explorer update. Which at time is not often. Since Firefox is and open source browser, developers can make security patches to the browser and send the updates.
Firefox in my opinion uploads faster. There are some incapaiblities with some companies such as yahoo music but that is minor compared to all the benefits that Firefox offers.
This is just a short review on what I think of Firefox.
Firefox in my opinion uploads faster. There are some incapaiblities with some companies such as yahoo music but that is minor compared to all the benefits that Firefox offers.
This is just a short review on what I think of Firefox.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Quick Chrome Browser Review
This is my two cents about what I think of the new browser from Google. Chrome is the beta browser this is suppose to take internet explorers users share of the pie.
That will be yet to be seen. I uploaded it a few days ago and this browser claims to be more secure then Firefox and Internet explorer. One nice feature from the new browser is that the site shields the user from a phishing site or a malware site. Which I felt is a pretty cool feature.
Some of the things I didn’t like from the browser is that there is no home button. I even when to the options panel to see if there was an option to view buttons but no where to be found. The browser does give you a short cut on the top menu bar to your home page but if your familiar with the other browsers like I am. Well that’s kind of annoying.
Second when you want to set your home page it sets it to a different tab so your still on the google page.
If they make the view preferences easier then I would go with this browser. But for now I'm sticking with Mozilla Firefox. Easier to use, updates frequently, loads quickly, tons of plugins but thats just preference
That will be yet to be seen. I uploaded it a few days ago and this browser claims to be more secure then Firefox and Internet explorer. One nice feature from the new browser is that the site shields the user from a phishing site or a malware site. Which I felt is a pretty cool feature.
Some of the things I didn’t like from the browser is that there is no home button. I even when to the options panel to see if there was an option to view buttons but no where to be found. The browser does give you a short cut on the top menu bar to your home page but if your familiar with the other browsers like I am. Well that’s kind of annoying.
Second when you want to set your home page it sets it to a different tab so your still on the google page.
If they make the view preferences easier then I would go with this browser. But for now I'm sticking with Mozilla Firefox. Easier to use, updates frequently, loads quickly, tons of plugins but thats just preference
Friday, September 5, 2008
New Google's Web Browser - Chrome
This week in news a new browser by google has been released called Chrome. Google has been the leader in the search market and has dominated with paid advertising. Google plans to use their leverage by bringing more users to use their search engine to drive more traffic to the site.Stay tune for my critique and use of the new browser.
http://www.google.com/chrome
http://www.google.com/chrome
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