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Mon Oct 9 Added some cool mac buttons in the buttons area.
Sun Oct 8 Compressed all the preview font images, and sped up the program that processes the initial request.
Fri Oct 6 Added new fontart (cats, birds and americana)
Sat Sep 30 Added new fontart (including halloween stuff!
Sat Sep 30 New featured style: Halloween (on the front page).
Thu Sep 28 There are now new options when generating images from the fonts section or the fontart section.
Tue Sep 26 I added some FontArt to the ClipArt section. From here, you can make flowers, birds, airplanes etc!
Mon Sep 25 Create your own Mouse Over Buttons a.k.a. Roll Over Buttons in the Buttons section.
Sat Sep 23 Added fonts by Author and FontBats pages.
Fri Sep 22 Added a "Print Page" option that takes the image and centeres it at the top of the page. Makes it easy to print. (I used Wood to make door labels for everyone at work! name labesls for everyone at work
Wed Sep 20 Added a few animations to the clipart area.
Wed Sep 20 Added two new buttons from GifArt, and Stuff.uk.com.
Sun Sep 17 Created a new beveled style called Wood.
Sat Sep 16 Added 285 new fonts from Gem Fonts!
Mon Sep 4 Added a search engine!
Tue Aug 28 Added 169 new fonts.
Tue Aug 8 Added new heading style Double Outline and changed the colors etc. of this page to match the new site look.
Sun Aug 6 Changed the look of most of the pages to be more consisten with the rest of the web site! Hope you like the new look!
Sun Aug 6 Added more options to the samples on the buttons pages.
Sun Aug 6 Fixed the colour selector for the buttons page.
Wed Aug 2 Added 160 Web page Backgrounds.
Wed Aug 2 Updated the front page, fixed a few typos, and updated the clipart options page.
Sat Jul 29 Fixed the bugs in the fonts sections where the number fonts didn't work, and some fonts didn't display their pages correctly. Removed the fontbrowser until it is ready to go on-line again. Added Edit Image.
Fri Jul 28 Fixed some bugs in the toggles, after coming back from the font selector (and colour selector).
Thu Jul 27 Updated the font selector so that the forms don't take so long to load (5 times faster now!). To get access to the extra fonts pick the last entry in the font list "More Fonts..."
Wed Jul 26 Fixed the colour selector and font selector for webtv. Now previews images correctly, and keeps the string that you entered.
Tue Jul 25 Fixed jump and shake. Added email options for clipart/icons etc.
Sun Jul 23 Added email signatures for Hotmail, Yahoo, USA.net, and Outlook (to use this feature: generate the logo, then click on the link)
Thu Jul 5 Completely re-did the way fonts are handled. This resulted in 500 more fonts being added the sytem.
Mon Jun 26 Added some ClipArt Words
Mon Jun 26 Added the next set of ClipArt First Names - now have nearly 3000 names!
Wed Jun 22 Added a search engine to ClipArt First Names.
Wed Jun 22 Added more more more ClipArt First Names.
Wed Jun 21 Added a ClipArt First Names. Get your name as an image, 15 pre-generated styles.
Tue Jun 20 Added a Font Browser which is especially useful for dingbats! (to figure out what letter is what figure).
Mon Jun 19 Fixed some of the styles linked from the Fonts page, and added a few more (click on the font, select a style).
Mon Jun 19 Redesigned the Fonts page, to contain just 20 fonts per page. This will make the page much faster to load!
Sun Jun 18 Added an excellent new style Electric. This was discovered by Chris07285, and figured out by Dave.
Sun Jun 18 Added 50 neon signs from NeonCity.
Tue Jun 14 Added 3981 new icons from T. Clemens.
Mon Jun 13 Added 188 new fonts from ShyFonts
Mon Jun 13 Added 132 new fonts from !PizzaDude
Sat Jun 11 Added 12 new fonts and 11 new dings from Jeff's Fonts
Thu Jun 9 Added 17 New Fonts from Annie Vega and the Hawaii Univeristy.
Thu Jun 1 Added Jump logo style to the Animations section!
Thu Jun 1 Added Blue Flames option to flamingtext!
Thu Jun 1 Added European listing of fonts!
Wed May 31 Added Shake logo style to the Animations section!
Sun May 28 Added large flags and maps to the Flags clipart section!
Tue May 23 Added 254 Flags to the clipart selection!
Thu May 18 Added 11 fonts from 4YEO
Thu May 18 Added 5 fonts from Harolds Fonts
Thu May 18 Added 1 font from Larabie Fonts
Thu May 18 Added 1 font from Iconian Fonts
Thu May 18 Added 1 font from Fontalicious Fonts
Thu May 18 Updated the featured style on the home page.
Tue May 16 Added 22 new Fonts from Gyrl Friday Fonts.
Tue May 16 Added 16 new Dingbats from Fontalicious Fonts.
Tue May 16 Updated the Fonts section and added a Dingbats section.
Mon May 15 Enhanced the Resources section.
Thu May 11 Enhanced the Help section.
Thu May 11 Updated the Featured Style on the front page.
Wed May 10 Added Font of the Day.
Mon May 8 Added more options for Bullets, Dividers and Arrows to help get the image to your web site or for WebTV.
Sun May 7 Added more preview font images (still don't have them all) on the form pages.
Wed May 3 Added a small image/photo editor to rotate images, and to do a few simple manipulations. Generate an logo and click edit image or try it on some photos.
Mon May 1 Added 616 new Dividers in 44 different styles.
Mon May 1 Added 484 new Bullets in 44 different styles.
Mon May 1 Added a Extended Char Set to all fonts. This shows all the possible characters that can generated for a particular font. click here for an example
Mon May 1 Updated the font pages.
Sun Apr 30 Added a new featured style to the Front Page
Fri Apr 28 Added some (15) New Fonts
Thu Apr 27 Added 59 AWESOME Fonts from UtopiaFonts.
Tue Apr 25 Added the character set preview for all the fonts. Now you can see what are all the different letters are for each font!
Mon Apr 24 Added a font search feature!
Sun Apr 23 New featured style on the front page.
Sat Apr 22 We now have 56604 pre-generated buttons for you to choose from. Or you can create your own!
Sat Apr 22 Added 5 new styles of Buttons (capsule-wide, rounded-wide, fun, arrowleft and arrowright).
Thu Apr 19 Added Popular Buttons section, which keeps track of the most frequently selected buttons!
Wed Apr 18 Added Popular Fonts section, which keeps track of the most frequently selected fonts.
Wed Apr 18 Added 106 new fonts from Fontalicious Fonts.
Tue Apr 18 Added New Fonts and Cool Fonts. section
Tue Apr 18 Removed Particle Trace because it's causing some trouble.
Mon Apr 17 Added 6 fonts from Zeta Fonts - eg check out Bloxxxx
Sun Apr 16 Updated the look of the Fonts section Plain
Sun Apr 16 Added two new styles Outline and Plain
Sat Apr 15 Added some more servers (speed speed speed!)
Fri Apr 14 Added previews for some (not all) of the fonts.
Wed Apr 12 Added 20 excellent fonts from StimuleyeFonts.
Tue Apr 11 Added 48 awesome fonts from IconianFonts.
Thu Apr 6 Added another 10,000 buttons (now with gradients).
Wed Apr 5 Added another 2640 heart shaped buttons.
Tue Apr 4 Updated the colored script to look much better, and made it the feature style...
Fri Mar 31 Added 12000 new buttons!
Fri Mar 24 Added lots of Arrows (still needs a little work)
Tue Mar 21 Added Dave's new style: 3d Text
Sun Mar 19 More fonts (300+) than you can poke a stick at.
Sat Jan 15 Updated the fonts section.
Tue Jan 11 Added the fonts section.
Tue Dec 3 Added the new Buttons and Xmas Cards sections.
Wed Oct 6 17:04:48 EDT 1999Colored Logo Script is up again (down for a day). Some minor changes may happen to this script in the next few days (to make it look better!).
Mon Oct 4 03:20:29 EDT 1999 Added the very cool Colored Logo Script (thanks Dave!).
Mon Oct 4 01:44:39 EDT 1999 - Made some *cool* optimizations. The engine now uses half the memory that it used to (which means faster image generation!).
Tue Sep 14 19:51:08 EDT 1999 Banner Script. ,Round Button and Arrow Button are now out of test!
Fri Sep 3 14:40:22 EDT 1999 Added the very cool Banner Script.
Wed Sep 1 03:56:47 EDT 1999 Added Round Button and Arrow Button for testing.
Tue Sep 21 21:52:20 EDT 1999 We had a litle outage over the weekend. Hurricane Floyd played havoc with our servers! All is well now, and we are making changes so even a hurricane won't stop us!
Sat Aug 28 21:39:54 EDT 1999 Adding ability to easily transfer files, and the scrapbook for web-tv.
Fri Aug 27 21:11:52 EDT 1999 Animated Alien Glow and Whirl are now official!
Fri Aug 27 21:09:45 EDT 1999 More config changes to the server to keep the queue length below 5!
Thu Aug 26 01:09:31 EDT 1999 Added a Pattern List, added ImageBot stuff to front page.
Thu Aug 26 00:14:09 EDT 1999 Patterns now display correctly on webtv (and older browsers).
Mon Aug 23 01:59:18 EDT 1999 Glossy is back!
Thu Aug 19 14:53:00 EDT 1999 Glossy has been removed, since it keeps hanging the server. It will be back!
Tue Aug 17 15:57:27 EDT 1999 Added Animated Alien Glow.
Tue Aug 17 05:08:06 EDT 1999 Updated whirl anim script again, and updated params so that it looks cooler! Update Link Us image
Tue Aug 17 02:34:41 EDT 1999 Updated whirl anim to use a larger area. Now 600x200 will work fine. (large fonts never used to work very well).
Mon Aug 16 10:20:50 EDT 1999 Added a small button on Linkus
Sun Aug 15 23:39:49 EDT 1999 Worked around a bug in IE5, that was causing peoples jobs to appear not to complete (especially flamingtext ones!).
Sun Aug 15 15:51:17 EDT 1999 Fixed Good City Modern Font
Aug 13, 2:48am Added What's New!
Aug 12, 7:35am Added preview for patterns.
Aug 11, 6:51pm Changed the list style.
Aug 11, 5:44pm Added arrows, bullets, hrule, and whirl.
Aug 11, 5:44pm Added x/y move for the beveled buttons...
Aug 11, 7:35am Added preview for patterns.
Aug 09, 8:58pm FlamingText is now transparent.
Aug 09, 8:58pm SotaChrome has new background and border options.
Aug 05, 5:34pm Now Faster .. give me some speed!
Aug 02, 3:27am Updates for WebTV. Welcome Web'TVers!
July 28, 5:35am Added our first Beveled Button!.
July 23, 3:59am Enhanced help, IE support, made changes to the colour picker (cool), and added Bevel.
July 23, 4:45pm Now display image parameters such as width and height for most generated images. Added lots of Textures.
July 21, 8:34pm Added Glossy (very cool) style.
July 21, 10:38am Added cool and tips areas.
July 15, 04:01am New image tools at GifTools.
July 13, 00:00am Changed Drop-Shadow to output a gif.
July 12, 10:50pm Minor fixes to javascript, fixes to drop-shadow (now a gif).
July 12, 09:00pm 4 new styles: Chalk, Comic, Chip Away, and Frosty (cool!).
July 12, 08:03pm Fix to the bovinated script so that the background colour now works.
July 12, 01:46am Added the professional looking Old Stone script.
June 18, 1999 We think of the name FlamingLogos.com but it is taken, and so we think of FlamingText.com, and a domain is born!
1995 My first java applet makes it way to the AT&T home page, and wins a few awards around the place.
1995 I wrote my first button renderer. Soon to be followed by a "Magic Eye" generator, xearth and a bunch of other tools, including this cool povray web interface that would rotate the AT&T logo in any direction.
1994? Introduced to mosaic.... By the end of the weekend, I have built my own version of mosaic, and have a web server up and running.
1988 Dave and I are introduced to unix and the internet.