trapped in the paperless, wireless, timeless and spaceless office

As usual I got fed up with my blog design and functionalities and as usual I can’t do anything else until I completely redesign it. It’s quite absorbing to the point that I can barely blog on the old one when I’m working in the new design.

This time I’ve gone for a much simpler design sticking to one column layout ditching the side navigation bar.

Another new concept on the blog is the aggregation of some of the many platforms where I publish contents: twitter, del.icio.us and the public part of my Google news reader.

Whether it’s a post written specifically for the blog, a bookmark on del.icio.us, a tweet or a shared article in Google reader, they all are treated equal: the latest one becomes the latest post and takes the place at the top of the page (even a small tweet). Sources outside Wordpress are syndicated automagically using the Feed Wordpress plugin (not perfect though as it produces more often than not duplicate entries).

A lot of time has been invested in Information Architecture and graphic design. At a latter stage I also integrated some of the jQuery framework capabilities. I’m afrait that I just scratched the surface but it’s clear to me that jQuery is really powerful and well architectured framework. In future projects I’ll keep it in mind as early as design time as it can really influence the interface and thus the Information Architecture.

As we all know we don’t live in a perfect world. If we did we’d all be using Firefox (or any W3C compliant web browser). The last days have been invested wasted in tweaking and hacking the CSS for Internet Explorer 6 and trying to work some magic out of the hideous browser. All credit goes to Rudewoikz.

All in all a very happy new start for an ordinary blogger.

Final note: Please make life easier by using Firefox!