so this will be incredibly geeky.
so to start today - yesterday panic released coda. it's kind of beautiful. i've only had a small chance to play with it today but i'm fairly certain any other editor i've ever used will soon be out the window. and not only that but it will make my time spent FTP'ing things back and forth so much less.
now onto more geekiness: cs3 icons
most people have by now seen this lovely wheel-o-icons and most of those people have probably scratched their head shortly there after (at least most of the people i know). now if there is some rhyme or reason to this wheel that i'm missing please please let me know i would love it to make sense. first i thought ok... vector vs raster... noooo. um things for web vs print... ummmm no again. crazy random icons thrown on a color wheel? i believe so. but not only are the colors arbitrary but their capitalization seems to be
too which makes some of the abbreviations more confusing than helpful.
for me it's not the fact that the colors or capitalization don't seem to have any purpose that make these icons most disappointing but it's mostly just that this is software that sets industry standards for anyone else that is even trying to compete with them and these icons are the graphical representation of that (no matter how small of a representation they may be). i think cs1 and 2 were on track - while flowers, feathers, and butterflies don't necessarily mean something significant to the product itself they were at least some sort of graphic that was well designed and put together and seemed up to date. i know simplicity is in and maybe that's what they were going for with these but even so it could have been done so much better.
so in an attempt to a)keep with my current icon set b)to attempt to have nicer cs3 icons that were still near what they originally intended (i get really confused when i change my icons to something crazy and then try to use someone else's computer) i got one of my friends to help me with these simple changes. now i still don't even think these are the greatest icons but they're at least slightly better than the originals. (plus we just made them during the downtime broken RIT internet was giving us)
for me it's not the fact that the colors or capitalization don't seem to have any purpose that make these icons most disappointing but it's mostly just that this is software that sets industry standards for anyone else that is even trying to compete with them and these icons are the graphical representation of that (no matter how small of a representation they may be). i think cs1 and 2 were on track - while flowers, feathers, and butterflies don't necessarily mean something significant to the product itself they were at least some sort of graphic that was well designed and put together and seemed up to date. i know simplicity is in and maybe that's what they were going for with these but even so it could have been done so much better.
so in an attempt to a)keep with my current icon set b)to attempt to have nicer cs3 icons that were still near what they originally intended (i get really confused when i change my icons to something crazy and then try to use someone else's computer) i got one of my friends to help me with these simple changes. now i still don't even think these are the greatest icons but they're at least slightly better than the originals. (plus we just made them during the downtime broken RIT internet was giving us)
