Thanks to Dan Zarrella, he took my concept of Tweetbacks and TweetStats and has made it reality!
Update:
There are now three different Wordpress plugins implementing Tweetbacks:
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Wordpress design and development for Wurld
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Redesign Darren Rowse's popular twitter blog, TwiTip
To redesign and expand DomainsBot's current site
Redesign Pink of Perfection and move the site across from MovableType to Wordpress.
"For the past month, I’ve been working with the excessively talented cre8d design to bring you the modern, grown-up version of Pink of Perfection. I went to Rachel and her team with an idea of what I wanted and she nailed it from the get-go, exceeding my wildest expectations. She and her brother Stephen could not have been more of a joy to work with them, and I would highly recommend them for any web project you have. I’m kind of speechless with happiness at their work right now."
Redesign renowned author Marion Nestle's website and merge with her What To Eat book blog using Wordpress.
"Foodpolitics.com is the second website that Rachel has designed for me. I thought whattoeatbook.com was gorgeous but this one is even more so. The new site is elegant and conveys precisely the message I wanted it to. I get lots of compliments on it. More than that, web technology does not come easily to me so I especially appreciate how well the site functions and little time it takes me to manage it."
Blog design trends in 2009
January 7 2009
Goodbye Web 2.0?
The big-text-shiny-rounded-gradient “Web 2.0 designs” will start to fade in 2009 and seem a little dated. Here’s my predictions for blog design trends in 2009.
Back to the middle
Blogs have been sidelined a little with social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and communication tools like Twitter. Many bloggers spend more time on other sites than on their own blog but as their online identities are spread out further and further, bloggers will re-center their online identity around their blog where they have complete freedom over the site structure, design, features and content. Blogs will be used to pull in social networking data like never before. Blog themes will powerfully integrate these in a meaningful and useful way – and as a permanent record all bundled together in one place.
Tweet, tweet!
With Twitter starting to really hit the mainstream, Twitter will be much more tightly integrated with blogs. See my post on Mashable with 10 ways this will impact blog design in 2009 – including Tweetbacks, Tweet Comments and more.
It’s black, it’s white
Simple, classy, black and white blogs with lots of white space are the new trend. Who needs color and clutter getting in the way when you have lots of large gorgeous photos on your blog to steal the limelight?
Made by me
The handmade and crafted look took off in 2008 and will continue to be popular this year. Look for more blog designs with handwriting, collages, paint strokes, doodles, sketches, paperclips, stitches and material.
Organic, local, sustainable and green
Even blogs will be going green and not just in color. See textures such as wood, dirt, hessian, earthy browns rise even more in popularity. Notice more fresh fruit and vegetables, insects and flowers. Designs will feature more original, ethnic and local elements rather than trying to appear completely global and vague in origin.
Stretching out
Bloggers will continue to redesign for wider screens to enable displaying larger photos and large widescreen videos. Bloggers will crop their images to be widescreen format, rather than the standard photo sizes – appreciating the wide screen look more. New default templates that come with blogging tools will also finally be wider.
Is that you, really?
Wordpress, Expression Engine, Drupal and other blogging/community tools will be used in ever increasing creative ways – to the extent that a casual visitor will be surprised to learn what the site is being run by and impressed at the ease of updating such seemingly complex sites.
