Dear Readers, from now on we will point the Forum menupoint on Creativebits to GraphicDesignForum.com, which has recently been upgraded and specializes in Graphic Design Discussions and point Critique to the Brands of the World Logo Critique section, which is a premier place on the web to get a critique on your logo. I intend to focus on making the features on both GraphicDesignForum and Brands of the World Critique as good as possible. I understand this change may not be ideal for some of you, but I’m hoping you will try those new sites for your forum and critique needs.

Some may have noticed that the latest tip in the blog has been posted by Jim, alias MacGizmo. An old friend of mine from Phoenix, Arizona. He’s extremely well informed and experienced graphic designer. He also used to work for a Mac magazine as a journalist. He was kind enough to agree to join me in the efforts to enchance the CB blog, so you should be reading his tips from now on as well.

Welcome Jim!

Many readers suggested to set up a CreativeBits Forum. Hope you will like it and find it useful. Registration takes only few seconds and you don’t even need to activate it through your email, you get instant access for all the features.

Thank you for your good habit of coming to CreativeBits! I have received some very positive feedback on my blog and it inspires me tremendously.

I would like to share some stats with you. I was positively surprised to see that CreativeBits receives a daily average of 1000 visitors. 69% are Mac users and 29% percent are Windows. 59% of the users surfing with Safari, IE6: 21%, Netscape 5: 13%, IE5: 4% and Opera 7 gets less then 1%. 30% of the users are on 1024×768 resolution, 1280×1024 gets 20% and 1280×854 is 11%. Here is a chart of the timezones:

You can get a rough translation of the blog by Google here in Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese.

Thank you again, I never thought that writing a blog can be so much fun and can be so fullfilling.

After much consideration of your kind opinions about the layout of this web site, I decided to change very little for now. It’s a known fact that PC monitors are a bit darker than Mac monitors, and some Windows users complained that the contrast of the type is too small on the dark gray background, however at least as many readers complimented on it, because it’s easier on the eyes. I added the checkered stripes that compliment the theme of bits (pixels) and reminds me of Formula 1 decoration to emphasize that CreativeBits is all about speed and efficiency. I also, changed some other small details, that hopefully make the site cleaner. One thing that I’m having a bit of trouble with is the language, since I’m not a native English speaker, but hopefully you can make out what I’m trying to say. Also, at last I managed to set up the google ad to display targeted ads, not just public service ads, so don’t forget to click away on those sponsors.

I started this blog because I wanted to share those interesting and sometimes useful bits and pieces of information that I find out about Mac OS X and the different graphic software that I use as an art director.

From time to time I would also like to showcase some of my artwork and hopefully receive comments, so that I can learn from from you, the reader.

Thank you for reading my blog.