Dabzo.com, Developments By: Artist, Adam McFadyen

So I'm working on a couple of things. I really need to work on my branding portfolio. I have been creating a lot of interesting branding lately. The goal now is to render them all as vectors. I am sure that they will come in handy for the wallpapers that I have been creating. I should probably post a blog or article of some kind. I probably will not for some time. Things have been busy lately, at home and with business.
The comic projects have been progressing smoothly and I have found a host with many dormant domains for me to play with. All told, life is peachy.
Best Wishes,
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800x600 1280x1024 1440x900 That last one was pretty sinister... So here's a lighter, brighter wallpaper.
Save Our Oceans!!
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800x600 1280x1024 1440x900 Some folks were excited by the more abstract wallpapers. I will be sure to post more. Here's this weeks wallpaper, entitled: SpyWare
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Things keep cranking away here at Dabzo. I have been busy running amuk. While home I have been generating new graphics and making tweaks to the site. I will be uploading a new style sheet in the near future. As always, there will be more graphics coming to the gallery.
I keep experimenting with how this comic is going to look and I have a huge stack of files that I need to organize and render for the site. More new wallpapers are on the way, as well. And look forward to additional tweaks and edits to the existing styles of the site. I will be adding new graphics and textures to the styles as time goes on.
All the best,
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I have some free stock photos posted for any of your graphic and web geeks out there. I would greatly appreciate if you left the branding intact when passing them along. And feel free to pass them along. If you make millions of dollars from them, buy me a beer. And if you create something great, Let Me Know!
You can find the stockphotos here.

Well, the weekly wallpaper is being posted a day ahead of schedule. I hope that you can forgive me.
There have been some great developments lately on the comic that I have been working on. You can check up on the writer of that comic if you would like. He does some amazing writing, and it has been very fun to translate his work in to graphics.

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New Article on Image optimization for the web. I hope that you will enjoy.

Yeah, about that W3C validation... It, wasn't looking so good around here until about ten minutes ago.
Things are a looking much better; although, I haven't quite been able to debug the gallery pages yet. In time my friends, in time. I'll be sure to have a more in depth look at that later. In the meantime I am more than happy to have a good 90% of the loose ends that resulted from my experiments with this new version of dabzo.com. What can I say, if you want to learn, you have to make a mistake here and there. Here's to learning!
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Life is good, as it should be. Brody had his first vaccination today. Now that I have used a word over five characters I will have to spell-check this post. I gots pretty good enlish but sometimes I don't spell right.
So hello and all, hope that you guys like the new site. I've uploaded more images to the gallery and will be uploading more as time goes on and I sift my way through the 100G or so of mixed assets I have laying around my HD.
I've finally been able to start reading "The Road" and it is amazing. I may have to post book and movie reviews up here once in a while.
Being an artist, it is important to feed my mind all sorts of great creative works... Entertainment can be great food for thought. I have heard that you can get free cable, movies and books written off on your taxes as an artist. You claim them as... Well I forget... But it is worth looking in to.
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It is time to recline... I have taken many of my skills and slammed them together in this new and improved version of dabzo.com. Having worked this hard and diligently... I figure it is about time for me to take some downtime. This will be time not only to appreciate what I have accomplished, but to figure out what to do next. Opportunities keep popping up and I am going to need to chill out and figure out what to do with them all. Who knows, the best opportunity for myself at this point may be to simply look for more opportunities.
Here's hoping!
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So here we are at dabzo ver.3 ... Wow, we have come a long way. The new site is streamlined and optimized. As alwasy, I have more work to do one it... here and there.
You can look forward to more improvements and tweaks as time goes on. For the time being though, this version is a great improvement.
I will be stocking the galleries. And, I will also be expanding on the css styling options for the site. In addition to these things I am also planning on writing informative blogs and tutorials.
Lastly, I plan on hosting a variety of cool downloads. These will include icons, wallpapers, stock images and maybe some stock psds and vectors.
I hope that you will stick around to watch things develop.
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Well, maybe it won't be perfect... But it will be close. A handful of Deftones covers and a pot of coffee have been getting me through a good chunk of development this morning. Development of dabzo.com Return of the Jedi is going awesomessly! I have seated the navigation within the database and configured the css to work along with it. There are a couple of bugs to work out. And while I stew over those... I'm working on the gallery graphics for the new showcase. Getting the graphics optimized is also allowing me to organize them... somewhat.
I am happy to estimate that there are over 2 gigs of my artwork floating around there on the aetheric-web... I have been scanning and posting the majority of my artwork since the year 2000 or so... As such I consider myself to be a fairly well catalogued artist.
My shameless self-promotion far surpasses my skill level. All the same, it is out there.
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While sporadic the progress on my latest revision of the dabzo.com has been going very well. I have the html and css work just about finished. Generating a flexible html template was relatively easy. I plan on launching many optional style sheets for the site over time. You will be able to look forward, not only to fresh new graphics and blog content. But you will be able to check out new style sheets as I release them. This will allow you to choose a favourite and browse dabzo in any theme that suits you. I was considering adding a randomizer to the default style sheet hyperlink. It might be funny if someone were to load the page, then show it to a friend and be confused. I like the idea of a talent scout finding the site with an ugly style sheet loaded and then, wanting to give his colleague a chuckle finds the site loading different ones at random.
Now it is just a matter of formatting the gallery content and linking up a database to manage the folders and such. I will end up saving a lot of disc space with these revisions to the architecture of the site.
That said I will be taking one step forward and two steps back as far as server resources go; as the overhaul I plan for the gallery will no doubt have it taking up much more memory. As well, the server side includes will likely bump up Dabzo's bandwidth appetite.
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Now, I haven't forgotten! I want to extend a very heartfelt thank-you to all who contributed gifts and or warm wishes to our new son, Brody. I fully intend on writing thank-you cards and all... But somewhere in the tornado of becomming parents, we managed to loose our box of thank-you cards.
Sorry! I'll get on that soon!
All the best, and thank you all, very much!
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Here we go, first post on dabzo3.0 dabzo3.0
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