http://blog.07designs.com my personal web blog Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:27:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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! TUAW.com: TUAW, or The Unofficial Apple Weblog ... http://blog.07designs.com/2008/09/29/my-top-5-redesigns-of-2008/ 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 ... http://blog.07designs.com/2008/09/29/brand-new-theme/ I've always ben going back to past projects and fixing some bugs and adding some new small features here and there. But there's always been a small part of me asking, what's next? What bright idea will hit me next? Don't get me wrong, I'm very pleased with Vine's results ... http://blog.07designs.com/2008/08/11/whats-next/ Vine, one of my many web projects, has been a project I've been fond of using myself to gather news on certain topics. After a few months of closely looking at how users use the site, I've discovered some interesting things, such as which topics gets read the most, how ... http://blog.07designs.com/2008/07/14/changes-to-vine/ A while back I discussed one of my newer web applications called Apricot, a small application aimed towards small teams wanting a central place to communicate and share information. It was set to have a beta release early June but with some things not working on the production server (online), it ... http://blog.07designs.com/2008/06/26/update-on-apricot/ 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 ... http://blog.07designs.com/2008/06/05/apricot-preview/ Orange, the first application released under Simple, has a little feature that will backup the list you have made into an easy to read .txt file that you can save for later use. The .txt file will sit on the server for 24-hours so that it will give you time ... http://blog.07designs.com/2008/05/30/orange-google-io-and-some-future-things/ Orgoo is a brand new startup trying to combine a ton of IM, Web and SMS services into a single service. Though it succeeds in bringing them all together, it's currently limited to what you can actually use. I know it's still in beta so I'll let it pass, but ... http://blog.07designs.com/2008/05/27/orgoo-beta/ For those of you who don't know, Google will be having a developer's gathering May 28th-29th here in San Francisco called Google I/O. A ton of sessions will be held such as 'State of AJAX' presented by Dion Almaer (Google) and Ben Galbraith (Ajaxian), which seems really interesting. So if you're ... http://blog.07designs.com/2008/05/27/google-io-tomorrow/ So this blog has been running on Wordpress 2.1 for a long while and I haven't actually upgraded it to the latest Wordpress 2.5. Well, today I did an entire backup of the database running this blog as well as the files, crossed fingers and upgraded. Everything seems to be ... http://blog.07designs.com/2008/05/10/upgraded-to-wordpress-251/