Recently I have seen many well-known sites undergo a design change to give it a brand-new look. Below I list some of my favorite redesigns of 2008, or at least most of the recent ones for this year.

These are in no specific order!

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It’s been a long time since the blog has gotten a fresh coat of CSS and Design (or paint..), so I finally decided to sit down and take what I know about WordPress and create a brand new theme. So here you are!

The colors are taken from my previous theme because they do go very well together. The structure and layout somewhat remained the same, though few unneeded items were removed for now, such as advertisements and recent posts/comments.

With the new design I have incorporated some of my social network accounts, such as Flickr and my Twitter account. The Twitter can be found at the very top with the text linkable to my twitter account, which I might change soon.

There are still a few things I need to work on, feedback would be appreciated.

Update: I will be updating WordPress today, so things might be buggy for a little while.

Update 2: Updated to WordPress, everything seems to be fine.

As the first development stage (beta, duh) of Apricot narrows down, I think it’s a good time to give a quick overview of what it is and how it will work.

Apricot is aimed at people who want an easy way to setup a quick chat room that they can share with friends, family of work colleagues. Upon registration, Apricot will automatically setup the room for you with the correct name and from day one start a complete history of your chat room.

Everything can be found on the Apricot Home page. Account settings, chat room settings and even your room history. With an AJAX powered home page, your content is presented in fast, intuitive and easy to use interface.

I will give a more in-depth look into the workings of Apricot as launch date gets closer (June 12th), so be sure to check back regularly.

So I am working on incorporating a tagging system into Orange. The first of the few basic tags would be Home, Play and Work. Not sure if I want to add more of have users add their own. It’s definitely work a look. Below is a quick walkthrough of the preliminary tagging system.

Let’s have a look at the selection screen:








It uses a simple drop down selection menu where you can choose pre-made tags. When you add the task, the JavaScript will do the rest in adding the tag to the task in the list below it. Not much room in here for creating your own tag, but will see how to implement it.

Tags in the list:

The screenshot above, shows a left-aligned tag system. Which links each task to its own tag in a more straight forward way. The other layout, below:

In this screenshot, the tags are right-aligned. This layout creates a more cleaner look for each individual task, but the problem occurs with a person easily connected a task to its tag.

The long awaited WordPress 2.5 has finally been released and is available for download over at wordpress.org. So get it while it’s hot. With the release comes a new design for the site as well (wordpress.org that is) and I must say, it gives them a more “future web” look.

I’m not sure whether or not I’ll update this blog to 2.5 but I’ll definitely check it out (I’m busy uploading it as we speak!) and give a quick review of it. I’m mostly interested in seeing how the new admin panel works.

I’ve uploaded some screenshots of the Admin Panel to my Flickr Page.