As number seven in his 100 Blogs in 100 Days series, Ben Gray reviews yours truly. I’m honored! What a great idea for a series. I know I get stuck in a rut at times. It might be time to weed out the old stuff from NetNewsWire and get some fresh sites in there.
I find it entertaining to look back at my old stuff, especially the stuff I made for myself. Oh, I so wish I had archives of my first websites. I’m sure they would be pretty entertaining. When I started blogging though, I made a sincere effort to keep better archives of my sites, and so have archived the front pages of each of my blog designs. As I link to the archived pages, note that few of the links on these pages still work. I simply archived the source of the page, not the entire site.
Looking through the old blog designs is like revisiting old friends. I was struck by a few different things. One is that my first blog design still holds up pretty decently. It’s pretty clean, minimal, and doesn’t try to be anything more than a blog. Gotta love that.
Blog design number two was the longest running design to date, having lasted about a year and a half. It launched the classic table-top woodgrain and coffee cup design that has in …
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Matt’s going to try to use the goodwill (and couches) of people around America to travel around the country and make a film. Pretty sweet. I sent him a note offering lodging and a ride.
I enjoy seeing how other people work, picturing them in their work environment hunkered down, creating amazing things. Given that I enjoy that mild amount of voyeurism, I figure maybe you do too, so here’s a shot of my workspace at the Hive. This is a cropped shot of what I submitted for Airbag around the world.
If you have any shots of your office space up on Flickr or something, link to them in the comments, would ya?
What indeed! Fluther is one of my favorite new sites these days. Props to Mark on the excellent design. Props to the Fluther crew for making a really fun site.
Welcome to the fresh new Be Good Not Bad! I’ve moved all the content over from my old blog, and have everything in one tidy spot here at BeGoodNotBad.com. I’ve had the idea for this redesign for awhile now. Ever since I started Be Good Not Bad, it’s made less sense to have my blog on a separate site.
The other thing that was really missing from this arrangement was a good logo. Granted, back in April I fake-redesigned the logo, but what I really wanted was something I could use over and over, in business cards, laptop stickers and the like. The woodgrain + coffee cup photo was just not up to the task.
I consulted with longtime friend Vance Reeser and brought him on to do the stylized coffee cup you see in the logo now. I have to say he did a fabulous job. I’ve gotten lots of feedback from friends about the cup and the stylized foam. Some think I’m trying to look like a fierce tiger. I’ll let you decide for yourself.
I also wanted to …
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Be Good Not Bad is all about really good web design, based on the utmost respect for web standards, accessibility and respect for the user. Based in Denver, Colorado, Be Good Not Bad is run by Brian Warren, freelance designer, blogger, homebrewer and coffee nut.