Sorry, I couldn’t resist the title. Perhaps short of true pandemonium, the new jQuery.com redesign has caused quite a stir. It sounds like they are going to make some changes, so I’m adding a screenshot for historical reference:
What was your first initial impression of the redesign?
Update: Order has been restored and the Rock Star is dead!
If you haven’t heard about Aviary:
“Aviary is a suite of rich internet applications geared for artists of all genres. From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video, we have a tool for everything. At Worth1000, we are creating a complex ecosystem for artists and providing the world with free, capable collaborative tools and an approach to collaboration and rights management that will turn the marketplace for online art on its head.”
I signed up for an “early bird” invitation months ago and last week, I finally received my invitation email. I’ve been playing around with Phoenix and Peacock and am very impressed with the quality of the tools.
The tools are definitely designed more for the “advanced hobbyist creators”, however if you’re familiar with Photoshop, Phoenix should look very familiar. [screenshot]
If you are interested in “beta testing” Aviary, I have 4 early bird invites remaining. I will send them to the first 4 people who request one.
Even though my current design is fairly new, I’ve never been very happy with it. As a result, I recently started the process of designing a new WordPress Theme from scratch, and was planning on blogging about my experience.
While researching WordPress Theme tags and functions, I came accross a site called ThemeTation. Launched on June 5th, 2008 by Kai Loon, it is a well designed site that includes a WordPress related Weblog as well as free WordPress Themes (SuperFresh and Blue Blog).
What really caught my attention was the very informative series Kai Loon put together on creating a WordPress Theme from scratch. If you’ve ever considered taking on that challenge or are just interested in how WordPress Themes work, I suggest you take a look:
Part 1 – Structuring, Designing in Photoshop
Part 3a – WordPress Implementation
Part 3b – WordPress Implementation cont.
Thanks Kai Loon!
I stumbled across this site today and thought it was worth mentioning. It offers a service that helps programmers, designers, writers and entrepreneurs connect.
From ProgrammerMeetDesigner.com:
“This site was created to unite programmers and designers because rarely is a person good at both programming and designing. PMD helps programmers and designers partner up to make websites and web applications that look and work great.
Now content writers and entrepreneurs can also join up to find people to work with.”
What I am most intrigued by, is the ability to look for people interested in partnerships, not just single projects (which is also an option). I have a number of projects that I’m interested in exploring and am excited at the prospect of finding a designer to work with.
So, if you have a project or idea but can’t do it alone, take a look at ProgrammerMeetDesigner.com. Oh, and if you are a designer, who’d be interested in working together with me…let me know 
I finally got around to updating the theme for this site. It was quite an adventure learning about WordPress Themes and its API. The more I use WordPress, the more I like it!
Thanks to my brother-in-law, Max, for helpful tips on my new logo and also to Michael Heilemann for his default WordPress theme, which I used as a reference.
As time allows, I’ll be adding content to the about, resume, projects and contact pages.
If you have any comments or criticism ( hopefully constructive ) on the new site design, I’d like to hear them…
I’ve decided to take another shot at updating my site and starting a blog…
I’ve chosen WordPress and while I’m trying to create/find a design, I’m just going to use this “default” theme.
This site will mostly be used as a place to store code I’m writing/testing, but I’ll also be adding various anecdotes about work, family, technology, etc…
