Hi. I'm Dale and since I read the blog daily, I thought I'd give the forum a shot.

Michael.

Always kept up with CB, so why not.

Coleman,

likewise.

Hi, I'm Brad. I'm a regular reader of the blog, like most everybody else here :-)

welcome! thanks for taking the time to register. :D

Nothing to see here, move along.

I'm Jim, by the way, and I'm not really here.

Hi, I'm Eric from PhotoshopSupport.com

Happy to have joined. If anyone has any Photoshop-specific news, tips, I'll be happy to post them on the Photoshop Blog I'm running.

Trying to post as a real member! This is a just a test.

i can certainly recomend it, very good read, check it out!

Nice new forum :)

drjohn checking in. Just an old guy trying to get up to speed (any speed will do) with the digital world. :wink:

sPECtre on board. Hello, eric! I'm your special agent from Belgium.

Hello everyone

I'm a Belgian photoshopaholic...

I'm often found posting and moderating at www.photoshoptechniques.com ,

soon at another place (it is not yet official) and in a French forum, www.photoshopmagazine.com where I also help for the translation of tutorials...

Very nice place to hang on!!!

And very good blog!!!

"Bore" Ivan?!? *ROTFL* Never!

~~~Hi Everyone,

I'm Thel, a semi-retired graphic artist, mom to the greatest 27-yr-old on the planet <--(totally unbiased opinion there, of course (-:), and Crazy MacHead Trekker. (The Trek part since around the Dawn of Creation and Mac user since '94.)

Tehl <--[wuz planninge two tipe sumthing hear butt iz laphing too harrrd two fined write keez......

I know MacGizmo for years from the http://macminute.com/cafe. He's a very nice guy and a big joker. :wink: And, ... a very honest person. :) He's not the only one from the Macminute crowd around here btw.

greetz from Iceland.

hope to see this forum grow and grow... if it's half as fun as the blog it won't be a problem! :)

wow! you've got some pretty cool party picts on your web site! Iceland is a place I wanted to go visit since I read a book about it. It was a sort of horror story with lot of descriptions of the towns and places.

Hi all, Jeff from Canada here. Regular reader of CB. Hope to see this community grow and prosper. :)

we do like our partys!! 8)

you just need to come and visit... i'll take you partying!

thanks! i hope so too.

btw, i noticed your avatar is in png format. it won't display in IE, but I guess we don't care do we? :D it's really about time MS does something to Explorer...

i hope i'll have the chance to take you at your word soon! :wink:

sPECtre has always kept me honest! Nice to see him here...

I liked the Blog so much, I joined the Forum!

Hi everybody!

Im Balazs from Hungary and I am a regular reader the CB blog. Probably the oldest :)

cheers

Nah, we don't care about IE :lol:. Actually, I didn't even realize that I had saved it as a png. Maybe I'll fix that. :)

I resaved my avatar before uploading it to my host as a png with alpha channel just for spite.

But in all seriousness don't many of you see web design opening WAAY up and getting crazy cool as soon as we don't have to support IE5/6 and have the ability to use pngs with alpha channel where ever we please. It boggles my mind.

Yes, but apparently MS is working on a new IE seriously as far as I heard. I think even they realised that the difference is becoming embarrasing. Just the fact that they still don't have tabs and they still don't support CSS fully blows my mind.

Hey there, love this forum already so I thaught I'd sign up. I probably know a bunch of the people on here already. I'm Stefan BTW.

Later,

Stefan

They are finally getting their asses in gear after recent netcraft stat showing mass migration away from IE to other win browsers like firefox. They may be releasing the new version before longhorn just so they can compete somehow. The day we will all know IE is beyond rediculously outdated is the day that Dell packages PCs with Mozilla. Lets hope it does not come to that.

What up all from North Carolina

Hi all,

I am Kiran a graphic designer working at a ad firm in Bahrain..very much interested in the www and i guess this is the right place to start...Hope it works out..

Kiran :)

my name is manish and live in Los Angeles. decided i'm not a good painter or guitar player and needed a way to express my creative part of my brain and designed websites is my way of expressing my creativity.

Also, after seeing some of the cool tricks on CB i want to redesign my site with CSS and would like some help if you guys have any links or book recommendations that would be awesome.

mrj

http://celestri.org

Linkage my man, linkage...

http://www.blogdsgn.com/

http://www.delorie.com/web/

http://www.alistapart.com/ <-- all time favorite

http://www.bluerobot.com/

http://www.moronicbajebus.com/playground/cssplay/

http://intensivstation.ch/css/template.php

http://www.9rules.com/cssvault/

http://www.csszengarden.com/ <-- amazing

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ <-- great, get his book

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

http://glish.com/css/

http://www.w3schools.com/ <-- quick reference

once we get a separate forum for web design this post will be a sticky i'm afraid :)

hello hello. i'm mike...an art director just north of boston, ma. i've been browsing the site for a good length of time...great stuff! thanks Ivan!

welcome! thank you for joining us. you need to login, unfortunately it's not automatic after the registration, although since there is no email verification it could be.

er...excuse me for that. :)

np thx :D

All in a days work.

NitroPye, you're just 3 posts away from becoming a member! :)

Don't tempt me, I could so easily just:

Post: "1"

Post: "2"

Post: "3"

But this counts as one of those posts so I semi-beat the system Wooo.

There is a 3 sec limit on repeated post on this system. So, you can only post 20 posts a minute. So, theoretically you can become an Omnipotent (10000 posts) in less than 9 hours. :D

Cheers people! Nice site.

I recently got a G5 dual 1.8 with a flat screen. Need to learn a lot about OS X. :)

Recently got an iBook (a huge upgrade over my old eMachines desktop) so I'm new to OSX. Been reading CB for a while now, and now I've joined the forum.

congrats people on the new macs... it's a wonderful life!! :twisted:

i signed up on the strength of the excellent weblog, and irazl's visit to baseboard.

:) i'll visit you, you should visit us, too.

:D

thanks mick! :oops:

how about a link to baseboard?

my pleasure, ivan. :)

http://www.baseboard.net

baseboard is a mac design hub with many many talented members. heh.. we've been around long enough to have a few virtual fistfights (a mark of a longtime communty), so if you visit.. be prepared to find many odd things in the "off-topic" forum. guests can visit, but not post.. if you want to see some killer desktops, visit the galleries.

i'm not a designer, but a learner who plays PST there. there are many other skills represented among the membership.

I piggy-backed my way to the blog and thought I would try something gutsy and different and just go ahead and register to the forum. What's different is I have very little knowlege of design, colors, graphics, etc... just about most of what's here, I also think I have another strike against me and that is I have and use a PC, not good?

I dont know how much I can contribute, I CAN be optimistic since I dont know most of what goes on, but I can tell you I will try to contribute and not just be a lurker.

So, Do I have a snowballs chance... :?:

Oh, and I like my Palm T3 and I dabble in programming.

Welcome PC guy! ;) You're not alone here. You will have to deal with us, mac fanatics. :)

What programming do you do?

Thanks for the nice welcome. I guess the shoe is on the other foot because now I'm in the minority. That's ok, I might be able to catch what other people have been trying to turn me on to for awhile now. I've been closed to any possibility of defecting to the other side until a month or so ago, I've been disgusted with the whole thing.

I hope you're not expecting some computing wiz, because that I am not. I'm currently studying C and tinkering with programming for the Palm. It's more of an interest and something to keep me thinking. With the occasional help of a few nice people I've met on the Net, I'm really enjoying it. If it takes me a few years to get to where I want to be - I'll be a few years older anyway.

At any rate, I look forward to grasping what I can. BTW: This is the first time I've been mistaken for a guy, but again this is the Net. 8) (really- not a problem)

sorry mylady! :)

i also learned some programming here and there and always enjoyed it! it's the purest form of design some say.

I'm more of a math, logic, absolutes, etc. person. Creativity, abstract, arts, etc- that other side of the brain- hasn't been tapped into probably since I was taught to stay in the lines. Another reason to be here.

I had taken a little Fortran in College which this was the class I learned how some people are under pressure - very educational. I doubt Fortran is used much anymore.

I dont want to take up all of your "welcome" board on off-topic posting. I can say it's comfortable here. Much different than I had pictured. :) Thanks.

Hey folks !

i'm just looking to find a new discussion forum :-)

Welcome ketilla. I think you just succeeded. :) Where are you from?

Well, Hi all

Here is an italian old graphic designer, I started in this work before that computers and internet helps was in immagination of the first fool on the hill.

I like too much to have the possibility to interact with this community opened to the world.

sorry for the broken english

Graphite, your english is very good. welcome to CB!

Anyways, Angrish will one day become the universal language!

grafite: i'd like to join sPECtre in welcoming you. i wish we could all have a beer together to talk about the good old days of graphic design, which i never experienced. i hope to see you around regularly.

Hi, I'm a Graphic designer from Mexico. I read every day the blog and I think that is very usefull. Sorry but my english is very bad... I hope that someone can helpme if someday I need express an idea... =)

Hi and be welcomed! I think you're the only member from Mexico. It's great to have such a multicultural community.

We have members from all parts of the US (Massachusetts, Boston, Phoenix, New Orleans, Seattle, Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Raleigh, NY, California, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Columbia, Alabama, Washington) Canada, UK, Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, Hungary, South Africa, Singapore, Guatemala, Bahrain etc.

I'm very excited to know that we can receive so many different views and opinions on a certain subject. Don't worry about your English. For many of the people on this forum, English is a second or third language, so you're not alone, so you might need to guess what I'm trying to say sometimes as well. My spelling sucks. :) Thanks god we do have some folks from native English speaking countries to help us out.

Hi everyone:

I've been following this forum for sometime now. I'm glad to be part of the most excellent, most awesome group. My background is in prepress for offset printing although I'm slowly venturing into freelance graphic production. I'm hoping I'll be able to add my 2 cents here and there.

Gloria

Welcome Gloria!

It looks like we've got many new members last few days.

I'm new. I signed up yesterday. Hello All.

Hi guys, I'm a friend of Ivan's from another forum. I came here because I enjoy the tips so much. One of Ivan's first tips for straightening the horizon, I use almost daily at work. I am always pleasantly surprised at the fresh tips he keeps finding. I work doing pre-press and design at a newspaper/commercial printing house. Currently we are keeping an eye on Mount St. Helens which is a scant 40 miles south of us. We lived 20 miles from it when it erupted in 1980 and it seems to be less dangerous this time. It's nice to see such a diverse mix of people from all areas of the globe. :)
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Hello iRock! Nice to see you here! :D

Thanks for the nice welcome. :o

BE AWARE guys! She is dangerous :) Did you bring your whip?

Only if there is begging. :wink:

Pretty please. :lol:

My name is Kevin. I just started reading the blog and it is throughly enjoyable :)

Be welcomed! :D Judging from your location you must be a web designer?

Hi! I'm Ana, from the MacMinute forums. Glad to see you here too, boys.

Very useful website, thanks.

Hello Krasni! I'm so happy to see you :D

Ahhhh... Krasni, great to see you here too.

Hi I'm Craig from Oklahoma. I enjoy the blog so much that I decided to join the forum. Looks like a really great community here.

Craig!

Be welcomed. I hope you will feel comfortable here.

What do you do?

Hi Ana! :D

did you know guys that you can select an avatar from the gallery? the very last option in your profile.
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I do graphic design and video editing. I also have my own business as a dealer for home and business A/V solutions (plasma displays and the like).

OK, I'll be using this one for now. (Hi, Shelli!)

been reading CB for a while now (a month? not sure..) thought i'd sign up for the board.

Welcome aboard j0hnheck, glad to have you here.

Heyah

I'm Greg from Vancouver.

I'm into Vector Art, Photography, and neato Gadgets.

I just found out about this site, ive been doing alot of reading and thought i'd sign up.

here i am!

Hi guys... Just signed up yesterday..!

Originally from Jordan (speak Arabic, French and English), I recently moved to San Francisco after studying Computer Science at the University of Arkansas for four years.

Interests include music (mainly ambient, rock and electro), graphic design, and travel.

welcome to the cbforum guys! i hope you will feel good around here. :)

Hey guys

I just stumbled onto this cool site. :)

I am Calvin from Los Angeles. Creative Director of my own design studio.

Welcome! I like your logos! :)

Thanks, I am glad you like them. :)

I need to update my portflio section with my latest projects. I have been so busy lately, I haven't had time. Promoting a business & working on projects seem to take a lot of my time.