New look, same great taste!


SchartWorks Software and Films undergoes a massive facelift.

First off, I know I NEVER update this blog - perhaps I'm just not a blog person, but I'll try to do better. There is a lot of stuff in the works at SchartWorks so I might actually have interesting stuff to put here... Not that anybody reads it (you do?! let me know).

Now that that's out of the way, you probably noticed our great new website on your way to this blog. Unless you have it bookmarked for some reason (YOU DO?! Seek psychiatric help. Soon). I freakin' love the new design and the new logo.

If you've been around for a while, you're probably thinking to yourself, "How could it be that the person responsible for the horrendous graphics in the first versions of Cocoa Poker and DooZee was able to make such pleasing and high quality graphics for this new version of schartworks.com? Well, I didn't.

I WISH I could take the credit, believe me I do. I would like nothing better than to have the skills needed to pump out some quality graphics like these but I can't. I can admit it. I'm a big boy.

The real man-behind-the-scenes is frequent SchartWorks contributor, Matt Bowmer [new window] (who, in addition to being a spectacular graphic artist, is also a member of an awesome band from the U.K. - The Illuminations [new window]). As I mentioned, Matt has contributed many times to various SchartWorks products, most notably the graphics for DooZee, and over the year or so since he first emailed me we have become pretty good friends - if I dare say so myself.

Anyway, a month or so ago I got an email from him saying, "I was looking at your site and thought it looked to grey. Would you mind if I redesigned it for you?" Uh... No. I would LOVE it if you redesigned it for me! And so he did.

So I've spent most of this weekend updating the site and moving all the pages to the new look. I sincerely hope everyone likes it because I think Matt did a hell of a job and I can't thank him enough. Thanks Matt!

I also have a few big updates to some of my apps getting ready to roll out in the next few days but I wanted to get the new site up first so that downloaders could get a taste and maybe provide some feedback. So look for a LARGE update to The Unread VERY soon as well as a bug fix release of Cocoa Poker (improper straight/straight flush recognition fixed). Later you'll finally witness the release of the much vaunted Triple DooZee, but that's a bit in the future. We also have a couple brand spanking new apps threatening to be ready for prime time, so keep an eye out.

thanks for listening,
peter schart

P.S. You may also have noticed the new Donate page... Even if you don't have any plans to donate, I'd ask you to go read the page and find out why I put it up before you decide that I'm just pimping myself for small change. :)

Posted: Sat - April 24, 2004 at 11:58 PM        

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