Mitcz.com : Official blog of Rev. Mitcz, the demented devilish comedian from Hollywood, CA.

If you’ve ever been to Mitcz.com before, you probably noticed that it looks different today. I took a few hours last night to quickly spiff it up (gotta do it quick when I have an “ooh.. this would be neat!” idea) and now it’s better than ever.

Along with the redesign, I’ve unveiled the new logo for all things Mitcz. It’s something I sketched out about a year ago, but never got around to actually finalizing. Last weekend, I did. Last night, I finally used it somewhere.

If you’d like a closer look, here’s the semi-final Mitcz Industries (tongue firmly planted in cheek on that one) logo…

As for the blog – you’ll notice a few new things here, …

Figured I’d take the day off from working for other people to work for myself and do a little redesign of (my blog) Mitcz.com. I’m liking it so far, but it needs a little fine-tuning, which I’ll have to get to at a later time, I think.

Still, it’s definitely an improvement over what I had before.

From the article..
“It’s another first for adult film companies that pioneered the home video market and rushed to the Internet when Hollywood studios still saw it as a threat. Direct download to DVD starting Monday.”

I actually was involved with this, almost a year ago, when I worked at Vivid. Much of my design changes have been retained, including the much-discussed “splash page” that transitioned users from CinemaNow to AAC. At the time, I suggested to Vivid that we develop our own, more-compatible-with-all-browsers-and-OSes version, but they didn’t go for it.

Truth be told, I wasn’t too pleased with the jackass way of handling things that went on at CinemaNow. They seemed to be way too wrapped up in company politics and …

Another in the line of Mitcz productions, this was a “for hire” project. Meaning it’s not technically my production, just my design and implementation. The idea, and the site’s content, are owned by Bella herself. It’s been a long time a-waiting for this fucker to launch, after so many issues w/billing companies, but we’re all pleased. I want to, however, give you my lengthy write-up about the process, and the making of the site. This is more than just an entry on design. I emphasize that because, as you’ll see, some very interesting things happened while making the site, and it’s probably one of the more “personal” touches I’ve ever put on a site, even my own. So I present the making of…

I reached a landmark today. Just now actually. I wrote this entry ahead of time, so I could post it when the event happened because I knew I’d be too busy/excited (and later, too drunk) to write it all out. What’s the big event?

*ahem*

Vivid.com

Now, most of you know I work for Vivid. Or, more specifically, that I make their websites. So, why is it such a big deal that I just linked Vivid.com? Because, sirs and madams, that is the default page. Meaning that when you hear Howard Stern talk to the Vivid Girls, when you see a 50ft Vivid billboard in NYC’s Times Square, when you drive down Hollywood Blvd and see all the Vivid ads – the …

Dave Hyatt is asking for regressions discovered when migrating from Safari 1.2 to Safari 1.3 (part of the 10.3.9 update). I’m posting this entry to do my part, as I have noticed a few bugs in the rendering engine that I really hope get cleared up sooner rather than later. I also appreciate that one of the lead developers of my fave/default browser is allowing us lowly web designer types an open forum for discussion and discovery of said bugs. That’s an opportunity I intend to take, and thank him profusely for.

I apologize, Dave, ahead of time that this is a pretty non-technical post. While I’m able to hand-code my own CSS/XHTML without reference tables or constant checks on the W3C site (or much anywhere else), I haven’t had the time to go through and figure out exactly why each of the bugs are occurring, nor have I bothered to find a temporary fix just yet. I just discovered these today, in fact.

In the world of design, being a designer isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. No matter how many years of experience you’ve got behind you, you’re only as much of an expert as the client will let you think you are. And, as any accomplished designer will tell you – the client is king. Anything they want, they get, and you will often want to kill them (and/or yourself) when they’re clearly in the wrong but won’t admit it. The reason for this? They’re an “expert” and you’re “just the designer”.

Want some examples? Some ways to deal with it? Maybe you just like to watch designers vent… then read on.

For the first entry of the newest AMF category (DesignMF), I’m starting a mini-series of article about issues that one must deal with when designing (whether it be for print, the web, or other mixed media). For this first segment (dedicated to Web Design this time), I want to tackle what I consider the biggest Web Design issue to date – Browsers, and more specifically – their incompatibilities and what to do about them.

As of this writing, their are about 5 major browsers (not including their version numbers). These include Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s FireFox, Netscape, Opera and for the Mac-only crowd, Apple’s Safari. Beyond that, their are several browsers based on Mozilla’s code, …