Stuff to pimp your Windows Home Server

Hacking Windows Home Server is a blog dedicated to Microsoft's WHS technology. Brought to you by Donavon West, Microsoft MVP and author of LiveGadgets.net and donavon.com I'll also discuss the Hewlett-Packard HP MediaSmart Server EX470, EX475, EX485, EX487, the T7-HSA Tranquil Harmony Home Server and any other new Home Server hardware platforms that arise. You can also call this hacking or hackz. In any case I will show you some cool things to make your Microsoft Windows Home Server even sweeter.

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Saturday, April 19, 2008

My Name in Lights

At the Microsoft MVP Summit held this last week in Seattle, the WHS product team hosted a 4 hour in depth open session to explain the inner workings of Windows Home Server and invited all of the MVPs to attend. At end end of one of the PowerPoint decks was a slide showing some of the community sites that have sprung up. To my surprise and delight, Home Server Hacks was mentioned. Whooo hooooo!

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While I was glad to see my "logo" up on the big screen, I thought to myself "Wow, my logo really sucks!". So on the flight back to the east coast today, I got out my laptop, fired up Photoshop and attempted to reconcile the situation. This is what I came up with for website v1.1.

Here is a side-by-side comparison showing the website header before:

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and after:

Home Server Hacks logo

Expect to see it on coffee mugs and t-shirts in malls across America. Let me know what you think about the new logo. I'm not a trained graphics designer so please be kind.

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3 comments:

Unknown said...

I like the top one better but think the Title Font should be larger. It just looks to small for the space it occupies. My wife is a graphic designer specializing in logos. If you'd like some free advice, let me know.

Doug

Peter Norman said...

I like the new one! The 'HSH' is cool. And the new white site-name is nice.

I really enjoy your site. Thanks for all the great posts.

Rock on!
Peter

Unknown said...

Is Donavon West in the building? Tried to find you as I wanted to say hi. Ooh well, there's always next year.
Good to see your name in lights!

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