As I write this around 11:30 a.m. PDT, my site is unaccessible. The reason why I write this now and have not reported these occurrences in awhile is that I'm trying to upload a new Resources page with the font used in the latest set. I discovered my error of omission earlier this morning and am trying to correct it. So I will wait. Perhaps later today whatever problem that's causing this downtime will be corrected.
I will no longer report these downtimes because they're usually so short in duration.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Two New Desktop Wallpapers!
Forgotten and quietly awaiting their debut are "Supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud" and "Liquidamber in Autumn," two new desktop wallpapers that I had finished some time ago, I think. "Supernova..." comes in four sizes and will most likely be the last of the space-themed wallpapers that I'll issue. The image comes from my usual source, GRIN. "Liquidamber..." comes in three sizes and is a photo of a young liquidamber tree in my parents' back yard. At first I thought it was a Japanese maple tree but upon closer inspection, it looks more like the leaves on the mature liquidamber tree I have in my front yard.
Enjoy these wallpapers!
Supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud is on the Wallpapers 2 page.
Liquidamber in Autumn is on the Wallpapers 4 page.Tuesday, August 29, 2006
New Interface Set!
At last! I was able to finish this set I started in July and wanted to release then but didn't get around to it. This latest set uses a navigational interface graphic. Primarily neon green on a black background, it looks totally out of this world with the swirling lights. The image was photographed by "ppdigital" (Darren Hester) and uploaded to the free digital stock photo site, Morguefile.
Copyright to this image remains with "ppdigital" even if it is changed from the original full photo. All pieces of this set are invisibly watermarked. The visible watermarks on the sample page graphics are not on the graphics in the zip file. I have not enclosed the html page in the zip file. But if you need to view how the graphics are set up, you can "View Page Source" or "View Source." Then you can copy-and-paste the html for the page onto Notepad or similar or your web page editor. If you do that, please, please, please delete all of my text including the copyright notice and the Sitemeter script at the bottom of the page before you even put a line of text or photos for your own web pages.
This set is free of charge for personal or non-profit web sites/ users but commercial or professional web sites/ users and web designers/ developers need to pay a user fee via Kagi, my payment processor. While the set is zipped for your convenience, if you cannot open zipped files with WinZip, PKZip, Stuffit Expander or similar I can send the pieces by e-mail. Just e-mail your request using the form on the Contact page or e-mail your request directly using the address on the same page.
View and download Neon Green Abstraction here. Click on the thumbnail image and enter the provided username and password in the popup window.
Copyright to this image remains with "ppdigital" even if it is changed from the original full photo. All pieces of this set are invisibly watermarked. The visible watermarks on the sample page graphics are not on the graphics in the zip file. I have not enclosed the html page in the zip file. But if you need to view how the graphics are set up, you can "View Page Source" or "View Source." Then you can copy-and-paste the html for the page onto Notepad or similar or your web page editor. If you do that, please, please, please delete all of my text including the copyright notice and the Sitemeter script at the bottom of the page before you even put a line of text or photos for your own web pages.
This set is free of charge for personal or non-profit web sites/ users but commercial or professional web sites/ users and web designers/ developers need to pay a user fee via Kagi, my payment processor. While the set is zipped for your convenience, if you cannot open zipped files with WinZip, PKZip, Stuffit Expander or similar I can send the pieces by e-mail. Just e-mail your request using the form on the Contact page or e-mail your request directly using the address on the same page.
View and download Neon Green Abstraction here. Click on the thumbnail image and enter the provided username and password in the popup window.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Visitor Number 11000!
While the hubby and I were away on vacation, visitor 11000 stopped by on the 15th. This visitor had JavaScript disabled so I'm unable to tell how long he/ she stayed and where he/ she went other than to the first desktop wallpapers page. Visitor 11K is from Clarkston, Michigan, and uses a computer with MS XP and IE 6.
On another note, it looks like I probably won't have enough time to complete the set I promised. Been so busy after coming back home from vacation, it's like I never left! Maybe I'll make it, maybe I won't. We'll see...
On another note, it looks like I probably won't have enough time to complete the set I promised. Been so busy after coming back home from vacation, it's like I never left! Maybe I'll make it, maybe I won't. We'll see...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
New Summery Wallpaper!
I'm getting psyched for vacation! Here's a desktop wallpaper featuring footprints strolling across sand.
This wallpaper was made with Paint Shop Pro 7 and tubes. Comes in three sizes; choose the one that fits your screen resolution best. All free!
Remember, these aren't for web pages as they are each one huge graphic and will load exceedingly slow for any user not on a high-speed internet connection. You don't want to lose any visitor and create a bad rep for yourself and your site. Desktop only!
Check out the thumbnail and download here.
This wallpaper was made with Paint Shop Pro 7 and tubes. Comes in three sizes; choose the one that fits your screen resolution best. All free!
Remember, these aren't for web pages as they are each one huge graphic and will load exceedingly slow for any user not on a high-speed internet connection. You don't want to lose any visitor and create a bad rep for yourself and your site. Desktop only!
Check out the thumbnail and download here.
Monday, July 31, 2006
End-of-the-Month Notes
I wanted to release a new linkware web set today but don't have enough time to do it. So it will be released sometime in August. It's a really cool interface set and worth waiting for!
I will be unavailable from August 9 through August 23. If you need to contact me, go ahead and send that e-mail. If received before or after those dates, I'll reply as soon as possible. I don't intend to check e-mail during that period though. Work never interferes with play!
I will be unavailable from August 9 through August 23. If you need to contact me, go ahead and send that e-mail. If received before or after those dates, I'll reply as soon as possible. I don't intend to check e-mail during that period though. Work never interferes with play!
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Contacting Me
If you need to contact me, whether it's about one of the graphics you downloaded or about this site, you can use the form on the Contact page. The form will send me your note to my e-mail address.
Now, my e-mail address is not in the form of my name at arride.com or webmaster at arride.com at all. I do not use my domain. Instead, I use a webmail service provided by Fastmail.fm with the domain of allmail.net. If you write to me, please include allmail.net or my full address in the whitelist or filters of your webmail or e-mail client so that it does not get deleted or sent to the junk mail folder. You should review your junk mail folder regularly anyway so that legitimate e-mail does not get removed accidentally.
The reason why I'm writing this is that a person named Eve contacted me via the form and I sent an e-mail back to her the same day, but have not heard from her. I've sent two e-mails in total within a week and I'm afraid both of them have been junked. So this is a public message to her.
The following is my valid e-mail address, coded to deter 'bot harvesting. I willl put the same link on the Contact page for anyone not wishing to use the form.
Email Arride Graphics
Click the above to send me e-mail using your e-mail client. Otherwise, please use the form on the Contact page.
Credit:
E-Cloaker from Codefoot - an e-mail address or text encoder using unicode
Now, my e-mail address is not in the form of my name at arride.com or webmaster at arride.com at all. I do not use my domain. Instead, I use a webmail service provided by Fastmail.fm with the domain of allmail.net. If you write to me, please include allmail.net or my full address in the whitelist or filters of your webmail or e-mail client so that it does not get deleted or sent to the junk mail folder. You should review your junk mail folder regularly anyway so that legitimate e-mail does not get removed accidentally.
The reason why I'm writing this is that a person named Eve contacted me via the form and I sent an e-mail back to her the same day, but have not heard from her. I've sent two e-mails in total within a week and I'm afraid both of them have been junked. So this is a public message to her.
The following is my valid e-mail address, coded to deter 'bot harvesting. I willl put the same link on the Contact page for anyone not wishing to use the form.
Email Arride Graphics
Click the above to send me e-mail using your e-mail client. Otherwise, please use the form on the Contact page.
Credit:
E-Cloaker from Codefoot - an e-mail address or text encoder using unicode
Friday, July 21, 2006
Page Changes
I've made some changes that will affect your viewing of some pages as well as possible bookmarks.
Thanks for visiting Arride Graphics!
- In order for the backgrounds pages to load faster, I've divided up the top border pages further into three pages and the side border pages into five pages. All of the pages are accessible on the other pages by page number. The newest backgrounds are on the last page of each section and subsequent new backgrounds will be added to the last page.
- I've changed the username and password to access each background to easier to remember words or acronyms. The new username is "bg" and the new password is "look," both in lower case only and without the punctuation marks.
Thanks for visiting Arride Graphics!
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Cat's Eye Nebula Desktop Wallpaper!
I saw I hadn't offered this wallpaper before and started making it only to realize I had already done it but not uploaded it. Talk about senior moments! So much on my mind, I'm getting flakey.
Anyhoooo, I like the new version better than the old, particularly the colors I used with the text, so I dumped the old sets. Version 2 comes in three sizes to fit your monitor's resolution. Most of my visitors use 800x600 or 1024x768. You can find the thumbnail view and the download links to all three wallpaper sizes on the Wallpapers 2 page. Nice lime greens and oranges, just like my cats' eyes.
Check out the other wallpapers, too, if you're new to this site. Links can be found near the top of the page and the right side of the page. Wallpapers 1 contains 800x600 and 1024x768 space-themed wallpapers and Wallpapers 3 contains all non-space themes in up to three sizes (I changed the sizes offered in mid-page).
So stop by and see the site! More than just desktop wallpapers...stuff for decorating your web pages, too!
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Visitor 10500!
I knew early last week this visitor was coming but totally missed his/ her arrival until today.
Visitor number 10500 actually came to the site on the morning of July 10th, their time. He or she hails from Germany, I'm guessing, as they use Deutsche Telekom AG to access the internet. They were using a computer with Windows 2000 and Internet Explorer 6, possibly at an internet café, though. The reason why I say this is this person was looking for a download of FontClerk, which is software that converts Windows True Type fonts to be compatible with Mac OS 9. I can't imagine a Windows user being able to use that software because it's made to be used with Macs.
I know that software is a little hard to come by and even the download of the software by that name at TuCows states that is does something else. I think it's the same one that was offered at the Yamada Language Center when I first had the link to it on the Resources page, though.
Anyway, the search engine of choice was Google. Thanks for stopping by and hope that link helped.
Visitor number 10500 actually came to the site on the morning of July 10th, their time. He or she hails from Germany, I'm guessing, as they use Deutsche Telekom AG to access the internet. They were using a computer with Windows 2000 and Internet Explorer 6, possibly at an internet café, though. The reason why I say this is this person was looking for a download of FontClerk, which is software that converts Windows True Type fonts to be compatible with Mac OS 9. I can't imagine a Windows user being able to use that software because it's made to be used with Macs.
I know that software is a little hard to come by and even the download of the software by that name at TuCows states that is does something else. I think it's the same one that was offered at the Yamada Language Center when I first had the link to it on the Resources page, though.
Anyway, the search engine of choice was Google. Thanks for stopping by and hope that link helped.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
New Side Border Background!
Drawing from school days (yes, I know it's still only July and no one is ready to go back to school yet much less be reminded of it), today's offering is a side border background reminiscent of spiral bound notebook paper.
Note that in most cases the lines will not necessarily align with your text nor with the text anyone else sees on their monitor because everyone will have different default font settings. The workaround to this is to set the background in the table cell or content box to white or to use a white background tile. A white background tile can be found in the tiles page of this site.
Spiral Bound can be found here. Click the thumbnail image to open a new window with the full graphic on the page. Remember to enter the username and password found on the page. Then follow directions for downloading the graphic to your hard drive.
(note: edited 02/07/2008 to change link)
Note that in most cases the lines will not necessarily align with your text nor with the text anyone else sees on their monitor because everyone will have different default font settings. The workaround to this is to set the background in the table cell or content box to white or to use a white background tile. A white background tile can be found in the tiles page of this site.
Spiral Bound can be found here. Click the thumbnail image to open a new window with the full graphic on the page. Remember to enter the username and password found on the page. Then follow directions for downloading the graphic to your hard drive.
(note: edited 02/07/2008 to change link)
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Latest Space-themed Desktop Wallpaper!
Today's offering is a montage of Neptune and of her largest moon, Triton. The "computer-generated montage shows Neptune as it would appear from a spacecraft approaching Triton," which is the larger of the two images on the wallpaper. Neptune is a beautiful blue, but I prefer our own gorgeous blue planet.
Download the wallpaper from the second wallpapers page. Choose the size that fits your monitor's resolution. And please, do not use this for web pages!
Quoted from image description at GRIN.
Download the wallpaper from the second wallpapers page. Choose the size that fits your monitor's resolution. And please, do not use this for web pages!
Quoted from image description at GRIN.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Outage? Really?!
This is really odd. After being out-of-town this weekend, I just logged into my e-mail and found one from one of my uptime monitors. The e-mail said my site was unavailable just two minutes before I logged into my e-mail account. So after making sure I would not trigger my Sitemeter counter, I visited my web site. Hmmm, looks fine to me.
The main page is accessible. One of my other pages is accessible from a link on the main page. All pages, as far as I can tell, are accessible! Now I'm beginning to wonder about this monitor's accuracy. My other uptime monitor hasn't been triggered at all. Usually, if the site is down both monitors would be triggered, I thought. I wonder if the past reports from this monitor are false. I'll need to check it all now -- the entire history through the e-mails I've received from all of the monitors.
It may be time to shop around for another uptime monitor.
Oh, brother!
The main page is accessible. One of my other pages is accessible from a link on the main page. All pages, as far as I can tell, are accessible! Now I'm beginning to wonder about this monitor's accuracy. My other uptime monitor hasn't been triggered at all. Usually, if the site is down both monitors would be triggered, I thought. I wonder if the past reports from this monitor are false. I'll need to check it all now -- the entire history through the e-mails I've received from all of the monitors.
It may be time to shop around for another uptime monitor.
Oh, brother!
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
New Baseball-Themed Set!
What I taketh away, I bringeth back. Baseball on my mind, this new set combines my photo of a pro ball team (without showing who) and some clipart graphics made from dingbat fonts.
Oh phooey! I just remembered I didn't watch today's game. Argh! That's what happens when you're busy trying to release a set. (Just a quick peek at the team's web site to see what happened.) Oh shoot! It's happening right now -- top of the 8th! Gotta post this quick.
So if you're a big fan of baseball, download this set and try it out. Lots of graphics but no pre-printed nav buttons -- sorry -- so you can create a really cool fan web site or blog.
Check it out here. It's called -- ta-da! -- Play Ball!
Ooh, I just noticed they're behind big time. Argh!!!
And ooh, I almost forgot -- Happy birthday honey bunch! XOXOXO
Oh phooey! I just remembered I didn't watch today's game. Argh! That's what happens when you're busy trying to release a set. (Just a quick peek at the team's web site to see what happened.) Oh shoot! It's happening right now -- top of the 8th! Gotta post this quick.
So if you're a big fan of baseball, download this set and try it out. Lots of graphics but no pre-printed nav buttons -- sorry -- so you can create a really cool fan web site or blog.
Check it out here. It's called -- ta-da! -- Play Ball!
Ooh, I just noticed they're behind big time. Argh!!!
And ooh, I almost forgot -- Happy birthday honey bunch! XOXOXO
Monday, June 05, 2006
New Graphics!
Hey everyone! I've got three new side border backgrounds and a new desktop wallpaper in three sizes for download.
The side border backgrounds are called Metallic on Black, Metallic on Gray and Metallic on White. Rather than just offering the metallic left side border on one color background, I made it on three. You decide which one you like. The border has enough room (about 150 pixels) to put text links or small link buttons to other pages on your web site, or for small graphical ads not more than 120 pixels wide. These are linkware which means you need to post a link back to Arride Graphics on every page this background is used.
The desktop wallpapers are called Mars: Four Faces, Four Major Features, and come in three sizes from 800x600 to 1152x864. I obtained four separate images of Mars from the GRIN web site and combined them for the wallpaper. This is the third version I made and liked the most. These wallpapers are meant to be used on your computer's desktop not on web pages. Choose the one that most fits your monitor's resolution and follow the download instructions. While you cannot post a link back to our web site, if anyone asks where you got it, send them to Arride Graphics at http://www.arride.com. Thank you!
Just to whet your appetite, I'm re-doing a baseball set I removed earlier this year. I was using a third party graphic in the previous incarnation, which I decided wasn't a good idea. Don't know if anyone actually downloaded that one, since no one has e-mailed me about using it nor has anyone triggered Sitemeter by its use on a temporary web page. This new incarnation uses a photo I took at a pro ballgame. Naturally, I tweaked it in PSP so it looks generic. I really like the image. I may use some of the icons from the previous set or I may create new ones for this set. Still a work-in-progress. You'll get notice of this new set on this blog and on the main page of Arride Graphics in the near future.
The side border backgrounds are called Metallic on Black, Metallic on Gray and Metallic on White. Rather than just offering the metallic left side border on one color background, I made it on three. You decide which one you like. The border has enough room (about 150 pixels) to put text links or small link buttons to other pages on your web site, or for small graphical ads not more than 120 pixels wide. These are linkware which means you need to post a link back to Arride Graphics on every page this background is used.
The desktop wallpapers are called Mars: Four Faces, Four Major Features, and come in three sizes from 800x600 to 1152x864. I obtained four separate images of Mars from the GRIN web site and combined them for the wallpaper. This is the third version I made and liked the most. These wallpapers are meant to be used on your computer's desktop not on web pages. Choose the one that most fits your monitor's resolution and follow the download instructions. While you cannot post a link back to our web site, if anyone asks where you got it, send them to Arride Graphics at http://www.arride.com. Thank you!
Just to whet your appetite, I'm re-doing a baseball set I removed earlier this year. I was using a third party graphic in the previous incarnation, which I decided wasn't a good idea. Don't know if anyone actually downloaded that one, since no one has e-mailed me about using it nor has anyone triggered Sitemeter by its use on a temporary web page. This new incarnation uses a photo I took at a pro ballgame. Naturally, I tweaked it in PSP so it looks generic. I really like the image. I may use some of the icons from the previous set or I may create new ones for this set. Still a work-in-progress. You'll get notice of this new set on this blog and on the main page of Arride Graphics in the near future.
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Downtime
One of my uptime watchers reported downtime for less than one hour (again!) Friday night at about 7 p.m. PDT.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
New Background Tiles!
Alright, I'll admit these have been sitting around in my computer for who knows what reason. Anyway, here they are - more basketweave background tiles in larger weave than the lonely one already on the page and in more colors! Can you find a use for any of these? Good!
I've got another desktop wallpaper in a space theme coming up. This time it's Mars. Look for it soon!
Okay, gotta watch baseball, so bye for now!
New basketweave tiles on Page 1 of Patterned Tiles.
I've got another desktop wallpaper in a space theme coming up. This time it's Mars. Look for it soon!
Okay, gotta watch baseball, so bye for now!
New basketweave tiles on Page 1 of Patterned Tiles.
Monday, May 29, 2006
New Stuff!
As promised, here are three new things to decorate your web site, web page and desktop!
- Right border web page graphics set called Statica. The colors are green and violet with two page backgrounds you can work with. Comes with 20 navigation buttons, a blank button if you don't like the font I chose, a matching bullet, a matching page divider, and two Welcome header gifs that coordinate with whichever background you use.
- Top border background called Rainbow Paper Chain People. Could possibly be used for a child's web site.
- Finally, a hot and sunny desktop wallpaper that I actually created last year and forgot about. I think I was going to add some people to it but that never happened. So here you are, plain ol' sun on warm colors that I call Hot Fun in the Summertime.
Visitor 10,000!
I don't know how to report this accurately. On one hand, the person who triggered Sitemeter to record number 10,000 should be just that. But on the other hand, I did trigger two visits myself (at least) accidentally when I forgot to ignore my visits, so visitor number 10,002 ought to be the rightful owner of the honor. But, to simplify everything, I really should go back to the person who actually triggered the 10,000th visit count. I'm all for simple!
So he or she hails from Jackson Heights, New York (I have no idea where that is), uses a computer with Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6.0, connects to the internet using Verizon Internet Services (I thought they only did cellular phone services), and used MSN search engine to look for palm trees wallpaper. This all happened on Saturday, May 27, at 8:22 a.m. (such an early bird for a weekend day!)
Anyway, they did not stay long enough (or maybe they used some blocking software) because they looked at the palm tree wallpaper I have. Maybe it just wasn't what they had in mind, though.
Thank you anyway for your visit!
Keep coming back, everyone, because one of these days I may have what you're looking for!
So he or she hails from Jackson Heights, New York (I have no idea where that is), uses a computer with Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6.0, connects to the internet using Verizon Internet Services (I thought they only did cellular phone services), and used MSN search engine to look for palm trees wallpaper. This all happened on Saturday, May 27, at 8:22 a.m. (such an early bird for a weekend day!)
Anyway, they did not stay long enough (or maybe they used some blocking software) because they looked at the palm tree wallpaper I have. Maybe it just wasn't what they had in mind, though.
Thank you anyway for your visit!
Keep coming back, everyone, because one of these days I may have what you're looking for!
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Downtime Two Days
My uptime watchers found downtimes both yesterday and today, both for less than one hour each. Yesterday's occurrence was at 3:31 am PDT and today's was at 11:30 am PDT.
I wish my host had a system monitor page so that we can see what servers are/ were affected by downtimes. My previous host had such a page which I found informative. I'm only informed about outages caused by scheduled maintenances. I don't like being kept in the dark about unscheduled downtimes such as these, though. I'd like to know what causes them. Still, the downtimes are not severe, so I can't complain too much.
In an unrelated topic, I believe I can release three things before the end of the month: a new desktop wallpaper, a new top border background, and the new web page set I promised. Also, we're getting close to seeing the 10,000th visitor. I think that will happen very soon if not today, or may have already happened yesterday.
I wish my host had a system monitor page so that we can see what servers are/ were affected by downtimes. My previous host had such a page which I found informative. I'm only informed about outages caused by scheduled maintenances. I don't like being kept in the dark about unscheduled downtimes such as these, though. I'd like to know what causes them. Still, the downtimes are not severe, so I can't complain too much.
In an unrelated topic, I believe I can release three things before the end of the month: a new desktop wallpaper, a new top border background, and the new web page set I promised. Also, we're getting close to seeing the 10,000th visitor. I think that will happen very soon if not today, or may have already happened yesterday.
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