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Taking it easy over the holidays

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:39:04 +0000

Just wanted to let you all know that Devlounge will take it easy over the holidays. Personally, as of now I’m offline until January 7, 2008, so you won’t be seeing me around at least.

Take this time to read up in the archives if you feel like it, or just relax and enjoy the time off. That’s good too.

Happy Holidays!

Devlounge outage

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:42:46 +0000

It appears that Devlounge suffered for some downtime earlier today. The culprit has been zapped by the server people. Hopefully, it won’t happen again. Nonetheless, we apologize for the inconvenience.

Bloglines Top 1000

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:47:05 +0000

It appears that the RSS online reader Bloglines is gearing up to release a top 1000 list on feed subscribers. The service is in beta at the moment, with Slashdot at the top spot. Check it out. Hopefully they’ll add a search function to see where a blog is on the list. Via Problogger.

Record Breaker?

aj — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:28:48 +0000

Lists definitely seem to be all the rage. It’s been less than 24 hours since the 30 Fonts You Want To Have list went up, and after just checking Mint it appears like it is going to be a record setting day. With just under 10 hours to go before the books close on today’s unique visitors, we are already at 4,000+. I’m excited to see what the day brings in at the end of the all, and what effect, if any, it will have on subscriber counts and comments / reads on other articles.

And The Tweaks Continue

aj — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:51:23 +0000

Round two of the homepage updates have now been completed. You’ll notice that the homepage sidebar is now a little bit more populated than before. Header images have been added for each section, to give some visual identification to each section. You’ll now find the four latest news briefs and side notes in the sidebar as well. Lots to click on, but it is all leading on into the site. That’s good, right?

Refreshed Homepage Now Up

aj — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:47:49 +0000

If you’re looking for something to go good with your Sunday breakfast, stop by Devlounge and have a look at the updated homepage. As promised, it was time to trash all of the extra stuff and put more focus on our articles. I still have some things to add (just a few more things to the sidebar on the right), and I’m still trying to determine the best amount of articles to have on the front page (more or less than right now…what do you think?). Let me know what you think of the change.

Particles is here

aj — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:49:13 +0000

The newest Wordpress theme is now available for your pleasure. Scoop it up today, and use it for your site now! More information is available on the Particles page. Special thanks to Robert for helping me squash the final display bug yesterday. Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend.

The Big Wall

aj — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:39:47 +0000

A new and fun little project / initiative from Devlounge that allows you to submit your favorite work piece to our [soon to be] large wall / quilt (think Million Dollar Homepage meets a design gallery) has gone live. Hopefully, this will help boost forum activity around here, and allow everyone to have a little fun (and get a link back ;)). You’ll find that the forums have a lot more information about the project, so you might want to check it out once you get the chance.

More Homepage Space?

aj — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:32:37 +0000

Update: Everything will be staying as is - forget I said anything.

In an effort to conserve more homepage space and get more content to the visitor at first glance, how would you feel about removing the “Abstract and Motion” from the homepage? This is not to put away Fernando’s excellent illustrations (as they are used throughout the rest of the site), but simply to open up more homepage real estate to showcasing content. My thoughts are for something like this:

Header + Nav / 1 Top Post (the newest) / Ad + Subscribe Bar / Featured and or Recent Articles (3-6?) / Front Feed + Jobs + Interviews / Rest of page continues as is.

How would you change it so we get the most content coverage?

Welcome to a new author

aj — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:33:15 +0000

I’d like to welcome our newest author, Keith Dsouza. Keith currently runs his own personal blog, as well as Techie-Buzz. I’m very happy to have him on the team, and now we officially have both creators of the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin in Keith and Ronald. Look for his first article soon!

Also on a sidenote about our forums - they will be returning today.