pingVision

New signage on the building

Posted 25 Jun 2008 by Laura Scott

Now it somehow feels more official.

Picture archives: send-off for greggles and ezra-g

Posted 23 Oct 2007 by Laura Scott

Some weeks ago, we sent Greg Knaddison (greggles) off to South America and Ezra Gildesgame (ezra-g) off to New York City. Here are some pictures, for the record.

Something widget this way comes (or: Death to widgets!)

Posted 7 Oct 2007 by Laura Scott

I've spent my Sunday morning mostly online. It's a lovely day, sunny and cool outside, and I've been wanting to get outside and do stuff. But I wanted to catch up online with some blogging and reading and such.

Which means that I've spent a bit of time struggling with the pathetic, slow, DNS-forgetful DSL service from Qwest I have at home. Every page view was taking ages to load. (How does Qwest even stay in business? Oh yeah, I forgot.)

And what's worse, among the slowest sites to load this morning was your humble hostess' own blog. And it wasn't just Qwest making things slow to start with -- it was the widgets. The slooowwwwww widgets. I'd sit there, watching the sun rise higher and higher while I wait for "Read" and "Transferring data from" messages in my status bar cycle through all the different services trying to load their widgets.

The. Widgets. Must. Go.

CSS reboot of pingVision

Posted 4 Feb 2007 by Laura Scott

The design of the pingVision site was driving me crazy.

pingVision, the old view

It really wasn't supposed to be the actual site design, but rather a temp theme to be cleaned up and spiffed up a bit. 18 or 20 months later (I actually don't know exactly how much later) I finally got around to replacing it.

pingVision, the new view

It's certainly different. Cleaner. Simpler. Too simple?

I'd started on this new design several months ago, but left the theme half-done in order to focus on client work. Finally I just had to spend a weekend tinkering with it to get it live on the site.

On BlogHer sponsorships: TANSTAAFL

Posted 6 Aug 2006 by Laura Scott

It's time for me to put my foot down. There's been a lot of griping about the BlogHer Conference, and griping about the griping. Within this metadiscussion, there's been much ado about BlogHer and its sponsors. First of all, I agree with the sentiment that BlogHer cannot be everything for everybody. However, there's been some very good criticism, and unlike some, I don't find fault with finding fault. As I am the president of a featured sponsor of BlogHer, though, maybe my opinion on all this is categorically deemed suspect by some. I'll just say what I have to say and let you be the judge.