It’s been a few days since I last wrote something on my blog… So I’m gonna make amende somehow on the next post, trust me.

I’ve been working on a website project in freelance for the first time and I can say I’m proud of the results so far. The website is still a work in progress, since we are pushing more content in it as days goes by.

So stay tuned for the full project description as soon as I’ll be done with it!

Read more about it on the company’s blog: http://www.kokstrategie.ca/blog/kok-strategie-fait-un-pas-de-plus-dans-le-marketing-par-courriel

You can see the French article there: http://www.kokstrategie.ca/blog/augmenter-lefficacite-de-vos-courriels-en-six-etapes

Feel free to comment, since it is my first article!

Final version with tagline under the logo - Kudos PA!

I want to officially thank Pierre-Alexandre Audet (aka Mr. E or PA) for helping with the final version. He’s a busy friend and he still took some of his precious time for me. Thank you PA!

As usual, feel free to comment on it, I’ll make sure PA hear from you.

While you guys are waiting for it, you might wanna check out my “About” page in French. Why, you ask? Because I put a photo on it! Yup! My little face is now on my website… took me lotta courage though. A friend of mine red the page in French and told me: “You know what is missing? Your picture…”. I laughed… but the kid was right (thanks Jérémy).

I’m also in the process of creating my profile on LinkedIn. It’s not public yet, since I’m missing one recommendation. After that I’ll add it to my resume in my up coming “About” page. Anyway, here’s the link:

Feel free to contact me.

I’ll try to get some interesting article for Monday. I red a few pretty interesting post lately and I want to share it with you.

What it does is simple: enable iPhone/iPodTouch/Android support for your website. It does not modify the way your website works, but simply make it compatible for those mobile.

I’m actually impressed at how simple it is to make it works. I only had to install it and voila!

Kudos to the team that worked on that.

Here’s the link: http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/

I’m gonna give that thing a try and see if it works well.

Anyway, I upgraded to the latest WP, reinstalled a few plugins, and looked for a solution for automatic language detection… You can follow the discussion here: http://forum.wpml.org/topic.php?id=415

Also, I had some issues with my PC, it seems one of my IDE drive died… you know, the ol’ CD-Burner/DVD Reader (it couldn’t even burn DVD!)… Not a big loss, still a pain when you try to boot and get a bunch of errors…

In another subject, my logo is in the hands of a friend that’ll tweak it a little bit… I hope to receive some news soon! What? Me putting pressure on him? I’d NEVER do that!

Finally, watch this blog, I’m developing my first Mootools class as we speak. I’ll release it on GitHub asap, so stay tuned!

The task appears to be simpler then it really is!

I first started out with simply writing the name of the website (NickoLabs), trying to style out those letters. I already had my slogan so I could build on that. Here is what some looked like… Keep in mind that I draw like that only when brainstorming… The whole idea is to shoot stuff on paper, stuff that resemble nothing, but sometime you come up with great ideas (well, sometime not THAT great but still…)

First draft of Logos

(Geez, they’re ugly looking!)

Anyway, while drawing, I did some hexagon shape, trying to represent the “building code” phrase…

I finally came up with this, which I intend in redrawing a bit later, and make it more… more… I dunno! I’ll simply redraw it and see how it goes!

Second Draft, much less ugly!

So… tell me what you’re thinking about it. Got suggestions?
I intend in keeping the lettering a bit like that, and include the “slogan” in it. I’ll see if I have space for the slogan since I’ll have to write it in both language.

Anyway, that’s all for today. I’m also looking for a nice “syntax highlighter” for this blog, since I remind you it’s a development laboratory! I found “lighter”, a Mootools based script that I’m actually finding quite appealing (I LOVE Mootools!) and I might test it out later this week. Should you have suggestion, go ahead! Shoot!

Of course, should this be a problem, feel free to comment on that change… I still have the smaller version on the server. Changing it back would be an easy task. Keep in mind though that I might change it again later in order to have a background that adjust to the length automatically.

On another subject, I’m trying to figure out how to get the “Subscribe to comments” section translated in French. Not that it matters to you, English reader, but I thought I’d let you know.

Wish me luck!

Edit: I finally found a workaround for that by wrapping all the “wrapper” div into another one that will be the the same size as the body of the page, therefore making it possible for me to add a simple PNG gradient to fade out the background on pages that have less content.

The new layout should already be appearing on your screen. Enjoy!