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WEB design - About the name - About the logo
I hope that you have found the general design and lay out of the TORR Mountain Training web site pleasing to your eye. I have worked on it from scratch with no templates to guide my direction, very much just making it up as I go. Using Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Lightroom, I have also had to try and give myself a crash course in programming and web design.
In asking people for opinion and feedback on what I have so far presented, I have quickly realised that the more people you ask, the more different opinion you get. However I do listen and consider, and sometimes let it influence my direction.
If you think that there are any glaring errors, obvious mistakes or positive suggestions for inclusions, please let me know.
If on the other hand you are so impressed with my design and work so far, that you are thinking of asking me to do your website.....feck off.
Or to put it another way, I am now happy to prostitute myself as a web designer. However my starting rate is €10,000 per page.
I would however like to mention the name TORR Mountain Training and the TORR logo and tell you a little about what it stands for.... and where it came from.
If you Google "TORR" you will get the rather interesting Wiki answer -
a non-SI unit of pressure defined as 1⁄760 of a standard atmosphere.
So that probably makes it fairly clear why I choose it as a company name!!!
The obvious true connection with TORR is "Tim Orr". However it is also meant as a play on the word "tor". So go back to Google, and our Wiki answer comes up as -
A tor is a rock outcrop formed by weathering, usually found on or near the summit of a hill.
Hopefully that makes a bit more sense!!!
The TORR logo was professionally designed by a good friend Terry Murphy.
Terry is a professional design artist who has worked in the business since the days when his airbrush was pumped by foot. Probably more important, Terry was responsible for getting me through my first Alpine season at the age of fifteen and then inspiring me to misspend my youth on the rock face rather than the school classroom.
The TORR logo holds a number of meanings to me. From the obvious blue sky and green hills, to the numerous different interpretation of the sweeping lines as winds, ropes, slopes or maybe even the three disciplines of the uplands TORR represents -
Hillwalking, Climbing and Mountaineering.
