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Dear Tumblr,
My personal motto is “Launch it!,” so I am pleased to announce yet another XOXCO/Lullabot responsive redesign, this time for Safari Books Online (a subscription service that gives you online access to O’Reilly and other tech books). This was another really big site, with lots of different content types and special pages. Every single type of page looks great and tunes itself to work beautifull on smart phones, tables, and desktop computers.
Safari Books Online, three ways: desktop, tablet, smartphone. Click for full size.
This project and the Grammy project really kept XOXCO busy for the last quarter of 2011. We had so much work to do, I worked through the Christmas/New Years holiday. It is very gratifying to see these sites go live, and know now literally ten kazillion people are seeing our magical CSS and Javascript code in action. It is also very gratifying to now have a lot more time to work on stuff for ourselves.
In other exciting XOXCO news, yesterday we extended an offer to our engineer Damien to come on full time, and he said yes! He has been ALMOST full time for a while, but we’re making it official now so that we can give him paid vacation and sick days. Damien built a lot of the Safari site, built the first version of SendTab, and is one of the big reasons the color picker in Make Pixel Art is so awesome. HOORAY DAMIEN.
Beta copies of my apps went out to testers yesterday afternoon, and the feedback has been very positive. Adam posted a few funny shots combing the pixel filters from my app with the text magic from his app Textagon. @Bwarez posted this photo of his dog wearing pink sunglasses. I am pretty much in pixel heaven.
And last night, I was up late drawing rainbow unicorn horns and pouty girl lips to add to the inventory of silly things to stick on pictures. GOT ANY IDEAS OR REQUESTS? I will be drawing all day long, so send them in.
THANKS INTERNET, your hair looks great today.
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