Building a hip new Web 2.0 site? Want a cool logo just like everyone else's? How 'bout a nice animated spinny graphic for your Ajax calls? You're in luck, 'cause I have two tools for you today. First is the
Web 2.0 Logo Creator by Alex P. It will generate a pretty pastel sans-serif logo for your Web 2.0 site, complete with optional "wet floor" reflection and "Beta" sticker. No, there's not a lot of options--options are
so Web 1.0. The second is
Ajaxload, a tool that will generate an animated loading GIF to mesmerize visitors while your Ajax calls load. Forget what I said about options, though--Ajaxload has a ton. You can choose from 11 different types of indicators and set both the foreground and background colors. Like this:
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Keeves said 7:48AM on 8-18-2006
Did you miss the:
"This is meant to be a parody of Web 2.0 Logos. While they are pretty cool, they are all kinda the same. It was created as a joke, not a serious logo maker. But feel free to use it to make a logo. :P"
description on the "Web 2.0 Logo Creator" website
No wonder it doesn't have many options, it isn't really designed to create proper logos!
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Jordan Running said 10:42AM on 8-18-2006
No, Keeves, I didn't miss that. Perhaps the sarcasm in my post wasn't thick enough for you?
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Keeves said 1:25PM on 8-18-2006
I wonder how many people actually realized that this was a half-sarcastic post (b4 visiting the site)? I don't reckon it's that obvious, especially since IMO the second of the two tools is useful, and have already considered implementing them in my site...
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