Before I figured this out three weeks ago whilst doing forensics on some very old files, I had been thinking about redoing my website (again) for a bit. The weblog format was getting old, and I really wanted to go back to the olden days of personal websites (for retro is hip).
One of the troubles I had was finding stuff to write about. This was a problem because I didn't really have a subset of topics i want to discuss. Instead of abandoning the weblog altogether, I narrowed my topic choices a bit, using the three sections.
The branding is something I've been meaning to do for a long time, but never got around to it, until finally, I found a fitting logo. I'll probably write something about that in the future.
Some credits are due. Thanks to Sjors for figuring out some PHP bugs and doing the cute ajax-web2.0-search thing, to Faruk for testing on his employers browser, and all the boys from #xhtml.nl for moral support ;). Oh and let's not forget Tristan, who kept bugging me to finish the damned thing.
– Hayo
Page last updated Monday, July 17th 2006
Discussion
Jeroen Mulder 17 Jul 2006 Looking quite hot and quite the change from the previous version. Well done :-)
PS: 10 years? Wow, you're old.
Gabriel M. 17 Jul 2006 A labour of love. It looks great!
Lovely and wide.
Sjors 17 Jul 2006 Maybe I should post this on my weblog. ;) Cool AJAXy search stuff rulz 2.0. Or something.
Ron Kok 17 Jul 2006 Wow! This is really a nice Web2PointOww site! Maybe you could do some fancy 2.0 things with the logo? Like a nice fade-in or a mail-us-your-favorite-color-form? Just my 2cents... BTW, great job ;)
Benjamin 17 Jul 2006 It's looking awesome Hayo! mmmmmmm, tasty!
Hayo Bethlehem 17 Jul 2006 Thanks guys! Much appreciated.
Charl van Niekerk 19 Jul 2006 Great work! Looks very professional!
One question though: On which network is #xhtml.nl currently? I know it used to be on irc.mozilla.org but it doesn't seem to exist anymore (or at least ChanServ doesn't know about it). (Missing the channel... ;)
Matt Robin 20 Jul 2006 The site is fitting testament to your design skills...cool! ;)
owen 11 Aug 2006 oohhh nicey!