Comiqs

Out of the Web 2.0 awards list, I decided to play with the website Comiqs. It was ranked third place in the "Fun Stuff" category.

At first I was incredibly enamored by this website. I love places where I can play with pictures, and the idea of being able to make an awesome webcomic *easily* is very exciting to me. Unfortunately, the more I've played with it, the less user-friendly it becomes. I was able to make one or two strips, but the menus are not very intuitive. In places where you'd expect the site to just go to a new page, it would inexplicably open in a new window, which cluttered up my screen and made me angry. (I'm a tabs person, anyway.)

If the navigation would become a little more intuitive, and if there would be less screen popping up, and if directions were a little more clear, it would be an awesome site. I can see why it got third place. The concept is awesome, but the execution is lacking as is.

Photo Phun

I kind of hate myself for using that "ph as f" thing in the post title. Oh well.

I love messing around with images, so I really enjoyed this challenge for the Learn & Play.

I messed around with making a picture cube from Big Huge Labs: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/cube.php. I still have to cut it out and put the tabs together, but it's a little bit of awesome. And it was nice because it could link right up with my Flickr account.

And because it's fun, I also messed around with Cool Text (http://www.cooltext.com/) and embossed my name.