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I meant to post about this when Holler launched their new site but I completely forgot… The site’s super-slick but more importantly, it’s the first attempt I’ve seen to make Flash liquid. Resize your browser longer and shorter and you’ll see the nav bar scoot up and down and the content reshuffle. Well done Elmer! I’d like to see that done for width as well… There was some talk of making it bookmarkable too.

Holler were responsible for the concepts behind SlashMusic, a new Channel 4 venture that makes available all music scoring for all shows for the last 2 years, among other things. This means that you can look up any show and find out what music they used - bloody brilliant.

Back to other Holler work, go check out their Eurostar Ski site. It’s not the most usable interface I’ve come across, but the whole thing looks gorgeous and the default chalet photo is one of mine so I wanted to mention it anyway!

The .Net magazine article I was in has been published on the interweb and syndicated, apparently. So there’s Ditch the Day Job on the .Net Mag site and Ditch the Day Job on the MaxPC site.

In a fit of self-indulgence I decided to Google my Zen Garden entry, Postage Paid. And I got some quite interesting results!

There was Dave Shea’s initial post about the batch of designs that Postage Paid occurred in. Nothing too much to write about that but it seemed to be a good place to start.

The result that I’m most pleased with is Shaun Inman’s comment on Andy Budd’s blog. I saw this at the time, being an avid reader of Andy’s, but I’d forgotten about it. I absolutely love Shaun’s work and for him to say that he was influenced by Postage Paid is just incredible. I know it’s a small thing but I really appreciated it.

I have no idea what the folk over at StijlStek.nl said about Postage Paid but I think it was something nice so I’m going to include it here. Maybe something about an original theme?!

By far the funniest mention was on a college kid’s site. Apparently Postage Paid was set alongside ZunFlower and Stone Washed for a design critique! And it was slated! I’m not too bothered about that - I didn’t expect the design to appeal to everyone. I wanted to break a couple of rules and turn out something a bit different, likely alienating my audience in the process. Having said that it was slated, I’m pretty chuffed to have been discussed in class, even if I did come off badly!