Every now and then I get to apply my graphic design skills on our site logo on special occassions.

Just recently, Valentine’s Day:

Christmas Season 2005:

Halloween 2005:

I also made quite a few more in the past using our old logo, but I’d rather not show all of them (hehe):

Edsa I Anniversary 2003:

Sometime in November I finished a classifieds site called Kuweba.com. It was an experiment more than anything else. I have to say that I’m quite happy and proud of the final product and some people had in fact posted some of their ads with little advertising or promotion on my part.

Yes, Kuweba.com looks exactly like Craigslist.com, and that was the toughest part of it all! Programming is difficult but the challenge it gives me is exhilirating. Call me a geek, that’s perfectly fine with me, because I am kind of geeky.

Give the site a try, then tell me what you think.

I’m a busy guy. I spend the most of the day obsessing about my websites and browse through my favorite blogs and bulletin boards. But it’s such a pain in the neck to have to type each and every URL every freakin’ time! I figured out a remarkably simple and easy solution: I created my own ’startpage’ (or homepage) using Macromedia Dreamweaver. I began with a fresh blank HTML page, then created a table with 3 columns (80% width, cellpading=10, cellspacing=5):

Then, in each column, insert links to your most frequented websites. In the example below, I included Yahoo!, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Groups and Webmaster World:

If you own a blog, I highly recommend you do your link this way:

In the sample, My Blog points to the blog itself, Admin points to the administration panel that controls everything about your blog, and Stats refers you to the blog’s statistics page (if it has any). This is the ultimate timesaver!!

For my own startpage, I changed the background colors of each column to different shades of blue. It’s not really necessary, but it helps in my case because I have a ton of links that I visit:

When you’re done, save the HTML file in your My Documents folder as index.html or a filename that you prefer. Open the browser that you most often use. To set your startpage as your homepage in Firefox, click on File > Open File then browse for the startpage file. Once open, click Tools > Options > Homepage and click on the ‘Use Current Pages’ button. For Internet Explorer users, click File > Open and click Browse to choose the file. To set as homepage, click Tools > Internet Options > Use Current.

Now, when you open your browser your startpage will magically appear with all your favorite links listed! To open links into a new tab in Firefox, press the Ctrl button while clicking on the link.