-------------------- Michael Clark Clark Signs 138 W. Main St. Aledo, IL 61231 clarksigns1@yahoo.com www.clarksigns.net Posts: 241 | From: Aledo, IL | Registered: Sep 2001
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Very COOOOOL! loads up great and I like the way it ties in together with your logo and stuff
-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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-------------------- Michael Clark Clark Signs 138 W. Main St. Aledo, IL 61231 clarksigns1@yahoo.com www.clarksigns.net Posts: 241 | From: Aledo, IL | Registered: Sep 2001
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Michael, that really is some fine stuff! The illustrations are clearly of the highest caliber, but the signs... man, that is what I've decided to expend nearly all my creative energy on for well over 10 years, but I can only hope to learn to make one or two signs look as nice as all yours do some day.
It's amazing how some folks can make it look so easy, with such effective layouts, simple color choices, & the minimum of flourishes... but once it's all completed, it just has this identity of it's own that makes it look as though it could have never been any other way, which is what makes it look easy, as though you carefully worked around it, avoiding everything it shouldn't be & simply revealed what it was meant to be all along.
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....but I still think you were cuter when you had a beard! hehheehee Nice work, Michael. Those drawings are great!
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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Jane, Thank you for the kind words and yes I do miss the beard, too. Tell the old man to grow one!
-------------------- Michael Clark Clark Signs 138 W. Main St. Aledo, IL 61231 clarksigns1@yahoo.com www.clarksigns.net Posts: 241 | From: Aledo, IL | Registered: Sep 2001
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Great website there Mike......Ive seen those drawing somewhere from a guy on the street up north....He had a monkey and a tin cup......But I didn't have any change,real nice guy....he needed a bath thow.....he he he.....Oh and Velma dont like beards.....he he he
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Great work. Now a tech question: how did you create the jpgs of the art? Were they scanned? Digital camera? I'd like to do the same, and was wondering what is required to post drawings like that.
Thanks!
-------------------- Tim Whitcher Adrian, MI Posts: 1546 | From: Adrian, MI | Registered: Mar 1999
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Tim, I have a surveyor down the street from me that bought a scanner that can scan up to 3' wide. He bought so he could scan blueprints for the local contractors and then print them out on his HP large format printer.
I was skeptical at first because I didn't think they would scan good enough. It really surprised me. I then had him make me some prints on acid free paper.
-------------------- Michael Clark Clark Signs 138 W. Main St. Aledo, IL 61231 clarksigns1@yahoo.com www.clarksigns.net Posts: 241 | From: Aledo, IL | Registered: Sep 2001
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The website looks great Michael. Joe did a really nice job with it.
I only have a couple of comments:
Do you really think it's necesary to have the masthead animation "do it's thing" on each and every page? Maybe a simplified shimmer running across the art would be easier on the eye.
Why not go ahead and load the image from the first thumbnail in the menu on the portfolio pages? I'd also be tempted to put the "Click on a thumbnail" instruction above the menu. Without some specific prompt, it's not exactly clear what you're supposed to do.
Perhaps it's just my built-in expectation, but I expected to go to the next logo, sign, etc. when I clicked on the "Next Page" graphic, not an entirely new page. I guess I was expecting a function more like "Next" (even though it's clearly labeled)
Don't get me wrong, I think the site looks fabulous. I can't help wondering if it could be even better.
-------------------- Paul Bierce - Designer pabierce@hotmail.com www.paulbierce.com Posts: 330 | From: Dix Hills, NY | Registered: Jan 2005
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