PatCavit.com

Sunday morning I had a few too many skittles after waking up and decided I wanted to build an actual landing page on patcavit.com

So then I started on it, I had grand plans. There were even icons that I was going to grab from… somewhere. That part of it was rather poorly planned. After doing the basic layout I spent about an hour trying to find the right icons. Eventually I threw up my hands and just dropped the whole idea.

Here’s what I’d planned for it to look like:
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Notice my awesome hand-drawn icons… :(

Today I was feeling more up for a challenge though. I did some reading and decided to use YQL thanks to Chris Heilmann’s screencast illustrating how he used it to pull multiple sources of data together. After deciding to just ditch the icons I picked a few colors for the top-level sections instead, and here’s what I came up with.

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I like it well enough. Still wish I could’ve found icons I was happy with.

May 25th, 2009 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “PatCavit.com”

  1. kevin.:

    The internets have lots of pretty icons: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/06/35-really-incredible-free-icon-sets/
    http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=244225&hl=xbox

    They also have lots of very, very bad icons.

    I like the new front page!

    May 26th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

  2. Pat Cavit:

    Yeah, Brands of the World has some Xbox ones that would’ve worked well. The resume/other projects ones were the real stumbling blocks. Finding nice icons wasn’t even the hardest part, it was finding nice icons that were big enough. I wanted the icons to be roughly 200×200 and unfortunately most people just don’t make them that huge.

    May 26th, 2009 at 12:17 pm