Finally made that little sticker…
January 17th, 2008
After setting up the feed aggregation at ApnaBill.com’s Blog, I now had an uphill task in front of me - to tell people that such a blog exists. Writing about it at my blog was one thing, letting it known to ApnaBill’s users was another. And those small sticker like graphics on the topmost right side of the pages used to fascinate me alot.
But having a left hand - when it comes to graphics designing - was a major problem which I had to overcome! As always, I resorted to OpenOffice Presenter to utilize its drawing tools - though they suffice from a presentation viewpoint, I found out that they were not atall suitable for the task I had in mind. Infact, it was pathetic. I was so depressed - I had high hopes from the Presenter’s drawing tool.
Using Gimp or such stuff was not atall on my mind because I wanted to get this done dirt quick - but should look good at the same time. On top of that, my knowledge of Gimp is very limited - resizing images, cut/copy/paste is all what I know 
I was sad! Adding a text link on the front page of ApnaBill.com would have sufficed, but it wasn’t what I wanted… 
Just then, I remembered that Sameer had tipped me about the improved drawing tool/imaging in Microsoft Office 2007. Not interested much, but still I decided to give it a shot. And to my surprise, it was actually pretty good and fast. I must say, it has improved by leaps and bounds!
I was able to create this in just 10 minutes!
So this goes into OO wishlist from my side - please add more graphics with better look & feel. I never wanted to boot into Windows yesterday - if I had a choice…
Note - I still am and will be an Open Office user
Update
I just found out about Open Office Draw - am going to give it a shot today…
Posted in ApnaBill, GNU/Linux, Open Source | Comments (4)
January 19th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Man you have a nice designing future too
Nice blog. Btw i can`t comment on sandy blog. That Zip feature added looks frightening to me.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Nahi dude, I have almost two left hands when it comes to graphics
All I did was to make it look like what I had in mind
Thanks BTW!
And yes, Sandy’s work - the zipping thing is going to be very useful for us later on - something we will need sooner or later - so better to implement it when designing modules
January 20th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Hmm, telling from experience zip features litreally suck server resources. I had to make my all blogger clients to disable WP zipping feature.
On the other hand with falling prices of HD getting space is not that tough, so any amount of data is not huge.
Just my two cents
January 20th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Well, what we want to ZIP is not a big file - but nevertheless, saving space anyhow is good
Thanks for the 2 cents - i’ll keep the cash handy