Posted by Visionary on 10/24/06 11:50

Now, the last 3 comments were a lot more constructive and well mannered
compared to the first reply. I only replied to that post in the manner
that I did because it was due. I don't understand why it would have
offended anyone other than who it was directed towards, if anyone
did...

I'm not trying to make impressions, yet. As I said in my original post,
I've been spreading myself too thin. Biting off more than I can chew so
to say. I will admit, I didn't give a whole lot of detail though. Let
me explain why.

This is the first time I've posted to a group, or usenet post board.
First time I fired it up actually. I did a search for a PHP group, and
came across this one, with a good amount of members. I saw alot of
helpful posts, and what appeared to be a wealth of people learning PHP
that might like to join the AVLabs team. We're only 2 (3, though the
3rd is spread thin as well with personal projects) people now.

So I figured I would post a quick note, see if anyone was interested,
and if they were I'd go into more depth. Apparently I underestimated
the speed and prowess of some of the more advanced members here. Or am
I totally in the wrong place in the sense that, your all money hungry
programmers who are replying to me from an office cubicle somewhere? If
so, please point me in the right direction.

As for my design skills... True they might be lacking, but I believe
the problems anybody may have with the site is on their end. I'm not
conforming to some public standard of white background/black text. I'm
not aiming for blind people. I designed that site with my monitors
brightness at 15 (out of 100) and contrast all the way up. I had over
30 people beta test the site and give me suggestions and critiques.

It's a design team's site, and it isn't even public yet (in the sense
that there is no active campaigning). That's not to say that the site
doesn't meet standards:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.avlabsdesign.com%2F

Now I'll go into a little more depth about what the goals of AVLabs
are, and what projects are planned or in progress. First off, AVLabs
isn't just made up of that one site, there are a few more under
construction. A wiki, forums, the AVDev site as well as a store which
is being built from the ground up, for stock photos and web templates.

The AVDev site is for... Software development. Particularly game
development. At the moment I am working on a commercial game, as well
as my own personal game engine. One of the planned projects for AVDev
is a webmaster tool. I won't get into that, as it would go on for hours
before it was properly laid out on the table.
--avdev.avlabsdesign.com--

The wiki is a sort of internal tool at the moment, for AVDev. Basically
just cataloguing links and useful information. It is being setup to be
a public source for various development information though. That will
come with time obviously.
--wiki.avlabsdesign.com--

The forums follow suit. Internal at the moment, but heading for a
public release. There is still a lot of work by way of content to be
added here, as well as all the other sections of AVLabs.
--forum.avlabsdesign.com--

I've started all this on my own, with no college education and hardly a
dime to my name. It's all I've been working at for a long, long time.
I've made a lot of friends, people willing to contribute to content
when the time comes. Photographers, 2D artists (an online and printed
comic is actually in the works as well), as well as people well as a
couple willing investors. Willing so long as AVLabs becomes something.

So I leave off, saying that I take no offense in the last few comments,
I understand where you are coming from. Just understand that I came
here to see if anyone was interested real quick. Admittedly I should
have taken the time to explain myself a little better, but my thinking
was that if someone was going to bite, they would do it fast. Or not at
all. I'm guessing the latter is more likely, and will be moving on.

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