We don’t often post about Naque, the site with a nack for creating unique names and words. So, even though today’s updates are relatively modest, it’s a good time to post about it.
What’s changed? The old Flash powered fonts, which broke a long time ago, are finally replaced with Google powered fonts. And we’ve decided to centre the site in the web browser – as screens have gotten much wider over the years, the site has started to feel lopsided, at least to us.
It’s crazy, Naque is over 10 years old now! And crazier still, hundreds of people use it every day!
We were absolutely floored to stumble upon this great video about the Naque for Unique Names website!
This clever young fellow, DamageTutorials, seems to really enjoy creating his usernames with unique-names.com.
Not only is it a better quality video than we would ever be able to make, coming from us it would literally be self-promotion. When this fellow does it, it’s much more believable.
Thanks DamageTutorials! You made our day.
Update: Rats, it appears that DamageTutorials’ YouTube account has been deactivated. We’re hosting the video here on the blog, we can’t find contact information for DamageTutorials… so if you happen to see this, drop us a line.
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Here’s the original YouTube video embed, though, it probably will never work again:
Check out the video DamageTutorial’s – Unique names – Thinks of a username for you in seconds on YouTube. Make sure that you turn on your speakers, the narration is quite good.
I was tweaking the layout of Naque, our unique names generator. It took a bit of fiddling to eliminate the indentation of the list elements in an unordered list.
E.g. <ul><li>first item</li></ul>
For some reason I couldn’t remove the ident. Margin (left) was the obvious thing to change. However, you also have to change the padding!
We’ve finally gotten around to reworking our fun site for choosing or creating unique names. Naque, which is now at unique-names.com, surprised us by developing a reasonably large audience over the years. So the old site deserved a bit of a face lift.
We made changes to the layout and colour scheme. Behind the scenes, we made bigger changes so that the site is a lot easier to change in the future. All the tools are still there, including our favorite, the ever popular Word Mixer.
So, the greatest site for creating unique words and names is ready to take on 2008 and beyond.
Perceptus Solutions Inc. provides IT services to smaller firms in Vancouver and runs some websites. Our lead contractor, Leonard Chan, is the author of our blog.