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Welcome! You've reached Portland web designer and graphic designer Adam Wood's shanty on the web. You my friend have found a great web site. Here you get to find out information about my web design, graphic desgin, my hobbies, and my interests while I'm living in Portland, OR. I'm currently a Portland web designer that works with all size business's from around the world. Check out my company Portland Web Design and Development to see all the services that I offer and more information.

My main focus is developing and designing web sites as well as graphic design. When I'm not geeking out on web design and graphics, I enjoy other passed times and hobbies. One of my other creative outlets is glass blowing. As a hobby for years I've created many unique, colorful pieces of art. You might also run into me at a show (music, theater, etc), dining out on some amazing Portland food, hiking up the trails around Portland, Oregon, or just out and about. Stick around and check out the site. I promise you'll find out a lot about Adam Wood.

A cursor, a hand, a pointer… whatever, it’s transparent.

November 19th, 2010

I had a hard time finding a transparent cursor for a project (mockup for a website) so I got a sock image but it wasn’t transparent and I couldn’t find one that was. I don’t think that’s cool. So I offer for free the one I made that transparent and I made all the different versions for all you geeks out there.

Download the PSD, the GIF, and the PNG of the hand cursor.

Also while doing the research for the post, like any good blogger does before a post, I couldn’t find any history on where and how the pointer (the correct term for the little hand) comes from. I don’t know and couldn’t find out anything that specifically tells me that it was created by a company, person, or whomever. Interesting that for something that’s so common today in our world that we don’t have any history about where it comes from. Atleast none that I can find.

If anyone reading this has any information about the pointer then drop me a comment or a line via any one of the many options such as email, twitter, facebook, linkedin… I’m kinda curious.

I’m Not Liking the New Google Local SERP’s and Especially Now.

November 9th, 2010

Google Local is off a bit.

The image says it all. I wasn’t liking the mix of both local and organic results to begin with and, on this search, it doesn’t even show the right cities results. It knows I’m in Portland, OR!!!

All Google Font Directory Fonts – As of 10/2010

October 28th, 2010

I’ve been making mockups for my web design business Azunga and recently installed the .ttf’s and .otf’s of Google’s Font Directory. It’s nice to have the fonts installed so you can get a full feel of the mockup. I had to download each one, one by one, but I figured I’d help out and throw up the zip of all of them. I believe they are all open source web fonts so I hope Google or one of the authors doesn’t come knocking on my door.

Download the font files here.

Update (2/22/11):  They add new ones all the time.  This is just the ones from 10/2010 and back.  There’s plenty more new ones but it’ll be a bit before I do an update.

Liking my EVO (Android) phone

October 26th, 2010

I’m enjoying my HTC Evo phone. After using many new iphones I’m happy that I made my choice to switch to an Android phone. There’s a number of reasons I won’t go into. I think this video can help you out (NSFW).

I just saw this. Iphone glitch lets you unlock iphone 4.1. I know I’m just being picky and this could happen to any phone. It’ll probably be fixed in a day anyway….

Bing – This is why I don’t use you!

September 16th, 2010

I’m a search engine optimization guy so I don’t discredit Bing at all.  They are another big search company to optimize for and pay attention too.   Buuuuuutttt….  This is annoying.

I’m looking to add a site to my Bing webmaster tools so I can track it.  Easy enough.  I figure just type in bing.com for the url and then search for webmaster tools.  It should be easy to assume that the first result would be Bing’s Webmaster tools page.  It isn’t.  Here’s my results I got.

Bing Webmaster tools search on Bing.com

Bing’s results show me Google’s webmaster tools first?!?  Then the link I expect to be the login or the homepage for Bing’s webmaster tools…

Link to Bing Webmaster Tools

The third link on the search engine results page was the above page.  It’s not even where to log into webmaster tools or even sign up for it???? It’s a link to their toolbox?!? And no, when you click on the webmaster tools tab it doesn’t have a log in.

To Bing,
When I search Webmaster tools on Bing.com I would appreciate at least a link on the first page to the site to log right into the application.  I think that seems appropriate.

Thanks,
Adam

They are gaining ground but really guys…. Are you trying to get people to use the service and increase the value of your search engine????

Just my two cents.  Let me know if you think I’m in the wrong or have any comments.  It’s ok, I can take the good, the bad, and the ugly….

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