Flyers have been copied across North York.

Maybe when I get around to it, I will install the big paper sign again? Hey, why not. It got some attention last fall, and now HDUB Pixel Art Edition is hitting the streets.

I can hardly believe that last years sign stayed up on that community sign-board for as long as it did. For a simple paper sign made out of bristol-board, four months is a long long time. Every time it rained, I wasn’t expecting it to make it through the week. I actually made three more which all were ripped off by wind and rain. The only one that lasted was the first one that I placed near the Famous Owls Meat Shop. I have no idea why it lasted, maybe it’s not a very windy location. Some-how, some-way, it stayed up on that post for such a long time.

I don’t know when it actually got torn off. Some time through the snowy brutally cold winter, that’s my guess. Good thing I had a backup set of letters, so making up the new signage wasn’t too much work. I just need to paint up a little more to finish it out: HTML Hobby (above) and Craft HTML (below). Hopefully it will be similar to the little single page flyer design. I really like the flyer.

HDUB Pixel Art Edition is out already

In reality I haven’t touched the code in a few weeks but, maybe there are a few last tricks to be pulled to make this thing even a little bit hotter. Still, from what I am seeing, there is nothing even remotely similar for making Artistic HTML websites. Everything seems to be geared towards Static Site Generators (SSGs) like this one (HUGO). Those are great for blogs and news websites but, for more Artistic stuff, you need more freedom, and it has to be more about the graphics than the text. You need more control over the positions of your imagery so that you can have the freedom to overlap components and design the way that you decide.

That’s what HDUB is about, freedom. It’s main focus is making it easy by letting you treat the HTML pages in the same way that you would treat any artistic canvas.

The absolute best thing about HDUB as a piece of software is that it works completely offline, and your intellectual property and artworks remain completely yours. You don’t need to sign-in or sign-up to use it. Just download the little file (~1.5mb) and the program is yours forever.

This one doesn’t do anything funny like updating itself etc. and it doesn’t have anything built in to track you or send any of your data etc. to a company. That’s because HDUB isn’t even a company, and there is no corporation which has control over it. It’s just a clean piece of Canadian Software which works for the user.