Google is officially ending support for Internet Explorer 6 in Google Apps. This affects users of Google Docs and Google Sites beginning March 1, 2010, and will affect users of Google Mail and Google Calendar later this year.
This is a welcome change. Providing support for a decade old web browser is severely limiting what we can do on the web and driving up development costs unnecessarily. Hopefully this move by a major player such as Google will goad enough people to upgrade that we can finally leave IE6 behind us.
While vacationing in Miami the other month, we recently stumbled across Classical South Florida 89.7 FM. Unlike most public radio stations, Classical South Florida is all music all the time. It was wonderful having such a large collection of music available and it reminded us how disappointed we are with our own local public radio stations. Luckily for us, Classical South Florida streams over the web, allowing us to listen to it from Indiana.
Because we listen 12+ hours every day, and it truly increases our productivity, we have decided to support Classical South Florida for the month of November. So for the entire month of November, when you go online and listen to Classical South Florida through the “Windows” link, you will hear a “prepend” about Adelie Design and see a little logo and link to our website.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is over until the show airs on ABC in January. We found out that the selected family was Cowan-Brown family of Bunker Hill. Their daughter Kori, 12, was diagnosed with a congenital blood disease when she was six. Since spending time rooming with a young cancer patient in the hospital, Kori has raised over $35,000 for the American Cancer Society. Because of mold in her home, Kori has had to have several surgeries for growths in her sinuses, and other family members have suffered as well. Hallmark Homes and numerous volunteers have banded together to build this family a new home.
My role in all of this was to make sure all of the sponsors received recognition for their hard work and generous donations. I worked with D Ashley Design + Events to create the “Hall of Heroes.” Over fifty businesses sent me photographs, logos, and statements about why they wanted to help out with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. I had less than a week to combine these elements into a poster for each business. Although each poster was not very difficult, the sheer quantity and time frame kept me working like crazy.
Thanks to Janel Bantz for the excellent photograph.
I’m doing design for the project in the Kokomo/Peru area. Tomorrow we find out who the blessed family is.
I’m designing posters for the Hall of Heroes to recognized all the sponsors and volunteers. I just started getting art on Friday and So far we’re at about 25 posters. This has been insane and really neat.
I’m writing this during a quick breather waiting for the next email. I’ll post more about this project after it’s finished. Visit http://hallmarkextreme.com/ to learn more about the build.
As a designer, one program I use a lot is Adobe Illustrator. It’s a good program for building logos, artwork for screen printing, and other simple illustrations. Back in 1963 Ivan Sutherland developed a program called Sketchpad that helped make future computer drawing programs (like Illustrator and AutoCAD) possible.
