Author Archives: Jeremy Cleek
Fall ‘09 Channel Designs Now Available!
Fall ‘09 Collection
New to the Store this season:
Clean click for details
Fresh click for details
Opera click for details
Modern Lobby click for details
Examples of icons and templates included with every channel
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Summer ‘09 Pre-Configured Channels for Carousel Now Available
Summer ‘09 Collection
We’re so excited about our new channel designs, we want everyone to have one! All pre-made channels are now available for just $200. That means you can be up and running with a beautiful new Carousel channel in no time. Each of our pre-configured channels are JAM-PACKED with a channel layout, [...]
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Spring ‘09 Channels from Tightrope Creative
Tightrope Creative has added 5 new channel designs to the online store. “Boardroom”, “Clinic” and “Scholastic”, all 16×9 horizontal channels, are designed for corporations / organizations, medical facilities and school systems, respectively. Organizations in community media will enjoy a new channel, “Wave”, which has been created in the 4×3 aspect ratio, and is [...]
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Tightrope Creative
On January 1st of 2009, Tightrope Media Systems officially launched Tightrope Creative, our Carousel design service division.
With Tightrope Creative, you will get professionally created channel designs that include:
Coordinated design elements
Pre-configured zone layouts
Specialized templates
High-utility icons
New design elements called “snap-ons”, which modify the look of a template to give it a specific theme, such as lunch time, [...]
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Re-ordering of blocks in Carousel 5.2
Here’s a real life example of how a new feature in Carousel can improve the legibility of text in a bulletin.
We start with our master RSS template, choose our background, and we get this:
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Notice how the text becomes washed out towards the bottom of the screen. This will happen almost always [...]
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Behind the Scenes: “The Key and the Portal”
Amber and I recently completed a short that played at the ACM conference in Washington DC. Please visit our webpage to view the movie.
Short Synopsis: In the spirit of a graphic novel – a 1930s detective is stuck in a futuristic world, unable to comprehend the power and efficiency of modern technology. [...]
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A Behemoth Is Coming
What is as close to a feature length training video as I will ever make will be unleashed Monday April 14th.
The Template Editor. Kind of a masterpiece. My "Lawrence of Arabia". In fact, its so special you can watch it in HD! (soon) Zooming, panning, and other trickery isn’t the most affective way to learn [...]
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Announcing Carousel 6.0