CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals. On November 1st, 2005 at 12:00 GMT Rebooters from all over the world launched their web standards-based redesigns (or designs) simultaneously, bringing traffic, interest and a little respect to their sites.
Check it out, I only came across it today otherwise I ‘might’ have joined. Very cool project and lots of interesting designs to drool over.
While spending lots of time this week struggling to get back up to speed with current web development I’m discovering more and more things, developments I’ve missed, techniques people use, the most gorgeous designs (like here, here, here and here). And every link I click on leads to a new blog or site with articles containing even more links. Argh! Good vibes though. My current plan is just to soak up as much as possible, collect a bunch of scripts I come across and then let it all sink in before I get started on the design for this thing. And with this thing I mean the blog you’re currently reading and which will eventuall turn into the front page for X111.com.
It really does make me feel like I’ve been out of the loop for too damn long with everything that’s been going on back in ye real world. We’re still in table hell on the main site for fuck’s sake, heh.
So maybe this blog will spin off into a total redesign of the site itself, not just in terms of layout but of functionality as well.
I’m also starting to get a better idea of what’s out there at the moment in terms of web apps which will help me manage all my info, from bookmarks to to-do’s to RSS-feeds to photos and contacts.
There’s so much around, gotta try ‘em all! I’m trying to stay away from all the so called webservices though, call me old school, but I still prefer running a script myself instead of having my personal data managed by someone else.
Time to get back to webhopping and bookmarking like crazy.
Enjoy the weekend and carpe diem!
Google Desktop 2 got released today.
The new sidebar looks nice, if a bit 90′s compared to the likes of Samurize, but I’m sure plenty of people will find it useful.
I still don’t see the use for it for myself, most of my stuff’s organized and this is way too unstructured but meh, see for yourself.
Someone at Nestlé had a revelation and they came up with coffee-beer.
I wonder how this idea saw the light of day, one can imagine someone over there being drunk one night and pondering on the joys of beer.
So familiar, only missing my standard reply to PEBKAC users:
“It’s because of atmospheric interference”
Thoughts of Imbalanced Mind