Lee launched We Are Central Park last nite. Aenonfire Design had the pleasure of helping out with layout and code, I also want to thank Mr Chris for his outstanding admin comments hookup, thanks again Chris.

Central Park is a uk based Volkswagen enthusiast site. It features the fantastic photographs of Rachel and the excellent graphic work of Lee. I wish them all the best in this site, as they are extremely talented, but more than that they are a couple of great people. Drop by and pay them a visit.

Have you ever wanted to get a screen shot of the entire layout of a web page? I’ve always wanted to be able to see what my designs looked like as a whole below the “fold”. In addition to that if you have ever needed an image for mock up or for a presentation then your answer can be found in Paparazzi. Paparazzi allows you to enter a URL, choose your own width and height values and then generates a PNG file for you of the URL. It’s a fantastic little app and its FREE to boot. So if you’ve got a mac running at least 10.3 give it a download!

For an example here is a grab of this page of my site at 1024 x 2130. Size: 500k

Hat tip to Scott.

Nice stuff here. My first impression as I saw the new redesign was Jason Santa Maria. He definetely carried his signature style and branding thru the redesign, It’s very clean and simple, and successfully takes that path where clean and simple succeeds rather than being dull and plain. There does seem to be a shift in the layout to go in the blog direction, as opposed to earlier versions. The decision to go 1024×768 on the layout was a good one. This move is for all intensive purposes not that bold for ala, as the bulk of their readers are designers and developers, but its great to see none the less, and I’m sure will endure all the bashings from the liquid layout police.

The markup is exceptionally clean and was pulled off with only a small handful of IE5 hacks. Thanks to Eric Meyer, they’ve got some solid CSS. With this kind of foundation, and the addition of ala’s great content, this site is set to march on into the battlefield of innovation once again.

*Hat Tip to Jennifer Guevin from c|net for the quote.