With Animal Planet, the Science Channel, and TLC all looking like distant cousins of its parent company, and namesake channel, it was only an eager matter of time before the Discovery Channel would upgrade its tired identity.
While not publicly available yet, the logo was unveiled at Discovery's upfront presentation the last Monday of March in Chicago, as The New York Times reports, where they also showed a TV ad boasting its new tagline and theme, "The world is just awesome".
The campaign is being developed by 72 and Sunny (whose work is as cheerful as its temperature) and the identity was designed by Boston- and L.A.-based Viewpoint Creative. From another news brief:
Discovery turned to Boston-based Viewpoint Creative to develop a revitalized brand mark that would continue to leverage the equity of its signature "globe" icon. By linking the globe into the "D" of Discovery, Viewpoint fused the world and brand. The stylized earth, contemporary color palette and fresh typography all combine to bring the mark more in line with Discovery as the international communications company it is today, the network said.
The mark can also separate out the "D-globe" as a single entity, in order to create a unique and dynamic icon. This icon can be used as a shorthand "identifier" in the future.
The new logo feels decidedly more contemporary, but I'm guessing that anything would feel so as long as that old typeface was not used. The new typography is, well, interesting. The overall spacing of the word is well resolved, it feels tight and cohesive, but when you start looking at the details, the thing starts to fall apart. The "co" pair definitely starts to look like a double-o, giving the channel a hilarious new name of "Disoovery" — c'mon, say it, "Disoooooovery" — and the "ry" renders a very gangly "r". Despite these oddities I do think it works as a whole. However, the omission of dot of the "i", even for the sake of continuity from the old logo, is slightly ridiculous — it's simply wrong. The globe, which I am assuming was a "Don't touch this or we will kill you" clause in the design brief is respectably well integrated: It's almost the same size as the "o", it's not too intrusive, and it's actually a pretty rendering of our humble abode. Perhaps my favorite part of the logo is the generously letterspaced "CHANNEL" at the bottom. All in all, I do feel this is a successful identity; it's not as awesome as the world it showcases and advertises, but it will do.
曾經有人問過如何嵌入背景音樂在BLOG中,方法其實很簡單。
要做到這一點,有多種方法可以使用。原則上以嵌入音樂(而不是添加小工具,如Last.fm播放)的方式。其中最簡單的方法添加背景聲音或播放控制條在您的BLOG模板中;第一種添加下列代碼在<body>標記後面:
<bgsound src="http://yoursite.com/yoursound.mp3" loop="infinite">我喜歡這個方法;但是這個方法有個缺點,瀏覽者並無法控制音樂的播放,如果你想讓瀏覽者有更自由的選擇你可以試試下面的方法:
FunkyDan.mp3
MagicDulcimer.mp3
代碼如下:
<embed src="http://yoursite.com/yourmusic.mp3" autostart="false" loop="false"你可以改變某些代碼以滿足您的需要:
width="200" height="50"></embed>
- 自動播放選擇:設置為"ture",始音樂在進入網頁時即刻開始進行Loding,或"false",讓瀏覽者自行按下播放鍵。
- 循環:設置為"ture"有音樂播放重複循環播放或者"false",音樂緊播放一次就停止。
- 長度:改變播放控制條的長度,迎合您版面的配置。
我想,不管使用哪種方式來進行,音樂格式都可以支援.mp3,.mid或.wav格式,但希望您注意到音樂版權問題,順便列出幾個可以參考的音樂下載使用網站,請服用...
- Free play Music
- MonkeyFilter維基:鏈接到許多免費音樂下載網站。
- FreeSound
這些快捷鍵功能包括一些主要瀏覽器,包括Internet Explorer,Firefox和Opera。其中Mac OSX使用的是CMD鍵,都詳列在下表中。
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整理出來,希望在使用上能更為快速方便,請服用!
這裡整理了一些來自Blogger官方的資源,將會陸續增加更新!
Blogger Help:官方的Blogger問題協助中心。
Blogger Buzz:來自Blogger的官方從中獲取最新消息。
Blogger Status:了解停電計劃和系統現況。
Known Issues:發現新的狀況與懸而未決的問題及其解決方式。
Blogger Help Group:尋找幫助您的Blogger相關的問題。
Developers Network:有興趣學習如何在Blogger中使用代碼嗎?這個網站會是一個很好的開始!
西雅圖超音速隊老闆最終以7500萬美元的協議擺脫在鑰匙球館租約,把球隊遷往Oklahoma。
但同時保留了西雅圖超音速名稱,權利和歷史,以備哪天球隊在回西雅圖。
過去幾個月裡儘管刻意的釋放新球隊的相關消息,最終還是以新名稱來回到NBA中:Oklahoma thunder。名稱意指能源和電力,標誌和顏色象徵奧克拉荷馬州的日落。
沒有什麼獨特的。很沮喪地看到一個不怎麼樣的球隊徽章,落日表示球隊要走下坡嗎?

