New Mozilla.org Design is Live!

by Steven Garrity

It’s up! The new design for Mozilla.org by Daniel Burka, myself, and the others here at silverorange, working with the brilliant and patient people at the Mozilla Foundation has just gone live.

Here’s the CVS checkin:

dbaron%dbaron.org – 2004-08-31 14:31
Landing BETA_20040721_BRANCH: new template, homepage, and product page design by Steven Garrity and Daniel Burka from silverorange, and required tools changes by Myk Melez.

Be sure to refresh! Thanks to all involved (especially bart, dbaron, and myk).

Of course, there is still lots to do to improve the site, and we’ll keep working on it – but for now, it feels good to be live.

 

Mozilla.org Website Beta Final Call

by Steven Garrity

There has been lots of helpful feedback to our public beta of the new Mozilla.org website.

We’ve fixed many of the issues that arose during the beta and we’re aiming to launch the new site tomorrow evening (Tuesday, Aug 31). This is a final call for critical issues before we launch. Feedback can be posted on this MozillaZine thread. Thanks!

The website beta lives at website-beta.mozilla.org.

 

by Steven Garrity

My brother is selling his crazy-cool custom street bike

 

by Steven Garrity

MSNBC has a good slideshow from the New York anti-war/anti-Bush protests and Kottke has video of the Bikes against Bush guy getting arrested during an interview with Ron Regan

 

Luna Blue Theme (v0.3) for Mozilla Thunderbird Update

by Steven Garrity

I was contacted this week by Alexander Klimetschek, who has built on the work of Hal Hockersmith to get finally get out a version 0.3 of the Luna Blue Theme for Mozilla Thunderbird.

My motivation for working on this theme was purely selfish, and now that I’m running Linux instead of Windows, I don’t have that motivation anymore. Fortunately, others have picked up the slack.

This version should work with Thunderbird 0.7.

Zip Icon Download/Install Luna Blue (v0.3) for Mozilla Thunderbird

lunablue-thunderbird-0.2.jar – 703Kb RAR File

UPDATE: Alexander Klimetschek has created an updated version of this theme (Download v0.4) as mentioned in this comment.

I know this won’t make any difference, but it’s worth a shot: I am not maintaining this theme anymore. I’ve just posted it here as a convenient location for people to find it.

 

by Steven Garrity

I also paint! (that’s really all I did, and my arm got sore…)

 

The Gaim project could use a new logo/icon – wanna help?

by Steven Garrity

Gaim logo dude

The excellent instant-messaging program/project, Gaim, could use a new logo. It would need to be something simple and elegant that works well as a little 16-pixel system-tray icon, as a full-size application icon, in larger spots (login screen, about dialog, etc.) and in other locations with status symbols with the icon (offline, busy, etc.).

Here’s the current Gaim logo dude and a screenshot of a folder that shows some of the other ways the logo is currently used.

Gaim is becoming quite popular as an instant messaging client. It is already widely used on Linux, and I think it could catch on like Firefox on windows too.

I wish I had more time to help, but I thought I’d try to spread the word. If you are interested in helping, join the Gaim-devel mailing list.

Update: It turns out the Gaim guys are still pretty happy with the little one-armed man. Still it can’t hurt to try some new things.

 

Firefox Wired, Explorer Expired

by Steven Garrity

This month in WIRED Magazine’s Wired/Tired/Expired:

Wired Firefox
Tired Mozilla
Expired Explorer
 

by Steven Garrity

Where I’ve been in the last 12 months

 

Reviewing the Future of America

by Steven Garrity

Future Soundtrack for America

I’ve written a review of the McSweeney’s book, The Future Dictionary of America, and the accompanying CD, Future Soundtrack for America.

As I state in the review, I’m a bit creeped-out by the politics and slightly-too-hip-ness of it all. That said, this is a good CD.

Here’s a sample definition from The Future Dictionary of America:

seven dollar socialist [$7 soh’-shul-ist] n. an activist, usually found in wealthy, liberal cities like San Francisco, whose high tax bracket income affords him or her the luxury of their rabid, liberal views. Ex.: an Ipod-carrying, Jetta-driving, organic-tomato-eating protester waving a placard reading Socialism Now while waiting in line to buy a $7 sandwich at Bi-Rite. – NOAH HAWLEY

Read the review for more.