DO you like the new look of the LICtalk website? Yeah, we figured it was long overdue for an aesthetic makeover, especially since we can’t do anything about the writing.
The tale of how we created the Gantry icon with LIC TALK embedded some may find interesting. Basically, I snapped a photo of the gantries, paid $30 via a 3rd party site to a recently graduated computer engineer in Sri Lanka named Chathuranga, messaged what I was looking to do, and after some back ‘n forth to get it perfect, voila!1
Furthermore, since a formal business deal has been matriculated between Chathuranga and myself, I am now one of the 4,000 invitees to his wedding in April. Best of all, my banker at Goldman says the updated site is now worth 50% more than it’s previous value of $8.73. 50%? Wow that’s some return on my investment, I should be running a major corporation!
//IT’S all business today, and while we’re on the topic, [Read more…] about BUSINESS, ALL BUSINESS IN LONG ISLAND CITY
- To be more specific, I searched thru a site called Fiverr.com for someone who could do Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. It took me two or three requests w/ other providers before Chathuranga, whose handle is blux_tt on Fiverr, agreed to take on the gig. We then negotiated a price and delivery time and I sent him the photofile. A day later came the first draft, the next day the second one, then another day of back and forth leading to 6-7 fairly simple revisions [↩]