WearFlags is a Zazzle Gallery of flag t-shirts, hats, ties, bumper stickers, keychains, and more with designs inspired by the flags of countries around the world such as the USA, Jamaica, Germany, the UK, Cuba, Mexico, Ireland, Kenya, Nigeria, and Trinidad. It was created to encourage patriotism and the expression of national and ethnic pride. Show your pride! Wear the Flag!
Monday, December 29, 2008

New Zazzle Widgets

In addition to my design work, I also dabble in web development. From time to time I'll get an idea for some cool little tool that I wish existed. I'll search it out and if it turns out that tool either doesn't exist or needs improvement, I get cracking. 


This past week I set my sights on alternative methods of showcasing my Zazzle products. Zazzle provides their Blog Panel and Flash Panel. Both are great tools which can be deployed fairly quickly but I wanted more options. The Flash Panel is too bulky to fit in all web layouts and the Blog Panel is too simple. I wanted to be able to control the size of the display and the number of products shown. 

Here's what I came up with...

My Zazzle Products - This widget, which is available on WidgetBox.com, is my alternative to the Blog Panel is my "My Zazzle Products" . It's basically an alteration of Zazzle Store Builder. There are guides to help you install the Builder yourself but if you're unfamiliar with PHP or don't have web hosting it can be a hassle. With this widget you can create a customized display of your latest and greatest Zazzle creations for your blog or website by entering your contributor name and the number of products you want to show. You can also choose to limit it to show products from a specific product line or products of a specific type! You can also choose to show your most popular or most recently created products. 

The example below shows my 3 most popular t-shirts. Everytime the page is reloaded, the display will be updated so don't have to keep updating this post manually.



Zazzle Products Showcase - This one, also avaliable on WidgetBox.com, is my alternative to the Flash Panel. It's a mashup of Zazzle Store Builder and Google's Ajax Feed API. With this one you can create a controllable slideshow of your Zazzle creations by entering similar information as you do in the first. Again, you can pick a single product line or product type but this time you can also limit the display by entering a keyword. Other improvements include the ability to change the backgorund color of the products displayed to match the background of your site and the ability to size the display anywhere from 1 to 500 pixels wide. This way the display can fit your site perfectly!

The example below shows a slideshow of the 5 most recent T-shirts from my Mexico product line.


By the way, you don't have to be a Zazzler to use these widgets. You can leave the contributor field blank to showcase Zazzle products on any topic you choose! Enjoy!

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New Product Lines

This past weekend I've been pretty busy with WearFlags. I've added more Proud Patriot shirts for a few countries and added new product lines for China, Denmark, and the Dominican Republic. I've also added an "Other" product line. This line will consist of designs inspired by flags that aren't technically countries or anything else that doesnt quite fit into any other line. In light of the recent conflict in Gaza, my first entries into this line are a few "Peace in Palestine" designs featuring the Palestinian Flag.


Flag T-shirts from my lastest product lines:




Peace in Palestine designs:




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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Proud Patriot Flag T-Shirts

To add a little icing to my latest flag t-shirt designs, I decided to add some wording to further express national pride. My first word sets include "Proud X", "All X", "Imported from X", "Made In X", and "Crazy X".  All of my products are customizable so buyers can change and edit the text as they wish but I felt these would provide a good base. Eventually the word sets will be available for each of the original countries and on keychains. 


These designs can be found by browsing the product lines or searching for the name of the country and the term in the search box. Examples:








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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

More than just T-Shirts

The t-shirts are looking fantastic but, why stop there? One of the greatest things about Zazzle is the wide variety of products they have available (350+). Taking advantage of this, I expanded my WearFlags offerings to include ties, keychains, mugs, buttons, magnets, mousepads and more. Each of the original countries has atleast one of each type of product. In the future, any design available on a t-shirt will also be available on these as well.


Examples: 


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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Monogram Flag Designs

For my second set of designs, I decided to simplify my original designs by using only the first letter of the name of each country. This gives a slim yet profound representation of the country's flag and really lets the colors shine. Monograms were created for all of the original 25 countries. To find them, go to the gallery and search for "monogram" alone or "monogram" and the name of a specific country in the search box to the right of the page. (I decided to just put two letters for countries with two word names like "United States and United Kingdom so those technically aren't monograms but oh well, they still look great!) 


Examples:






 

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Zazzle Gallery Creation

The WearFlags Zazzle Gallery was created on December 16th, 2008. The first designs added to our gallery were inspired by the flags of the following countries:

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