»The new year

2010 The year of the Tiger and Olympic competitions. Everybody is talking about 2009, what they have done, what were the most important aspects, innovations, most clicked posts on their blogs, and so on. As far as I am concern 2009 is was the year of learning and discovering. I have learned a lot as a developer and opened my mind more as a rookie designer.

Personally I don’t like to talk about the past regarding the achievements and failures on myself and my blog so I will spare you all from a long article that probably will be very boring.

»New design

As you can see I finally adopted the minimalistic trend that everyone is using and talking about this days. I know it took me one year to understand and see why this is better, although I don’t agree with the perception of this trend everybody is having, but this was the best pick that could fit to my current and future needs…

So I have dropped my two-column background theme and took a very light approach of showing the information. My sandbox theme is ProBlog Theme that I have modified very much to suite my needs. I have added some nice features and there are still more to come. I will also start a series of (tutorials) articles to show you how you can achieve some of the design features that I have implemented here.

I paid a little more attention (there are still more to do) to typography and I’ve set the most used font on the web as the main display; ignored “one rule” in web-design and the font family is now

Helvetica Neue, Arial, Sans-Serif

Anchor styles were also updated

Admin comments as a personal touch

And some other typography stuff

Other improvements and features that were made

• tweaks on the server side for faster loads
• better cache system for faster loads
• twitter status
• top link after scrolling the page
• new nextgen and highslide integration scripts
• smooth scroll plugin
• mobile version of the blog

This are only a few of the new things I’ve added and I want to add more to my blog. I will try to make them one by one in the following weeks. So stay tuned for new articles, tutorials and new features.

»New ideas

Chalenge your brain

This year I want to start and put in motion some of my old ideas and also some new ones. I won’t detail here because this is not the case, the main thing is that you all should put your ideas in practice no matter how crazy or useful they are. Manny new stuff can be learned and new skills developed and old ones strengthened by starting to work on a crazy idea.

»New Projects

New challenging projects will be this year, some of them already started to catch a breeze of air. The web is changing more and more, and this year won’t be very much different. We will see that the main accent will be put on simplicity and social integration. Taking this into consideration new challenging projects will give us more headaches.

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Hope you like my new design and the only think I wish you in the new year is to be healthy and to have lots of money for lots of coffee cups