What an extremely slow week! I apologize for a severe lack of new material this week. My first week back at school, and it just takes a little while to get back into the swing of things. Without any more delaying, let’s just right into things this week since this is the only new material coming out of camp Devlounge.

Sites of the Week

Leading off week 44 is Varien. I’m loving the color scheme here, the site is very clean as well. The layout is nothing over the top or ground breaking, but it gets the job done and serves the purpose just fine.

Second is Kyan. I really like how it goes from blue to green, obviously representing the sky and the ground. And their Carbon Logic project looks pretty damn nice.

And finally this week is Worldways. The reason this one makes the list is because of how clean it is. Sometimes I just love how things are laid out, and this is one of those cases.

Digg / Design Float Weekly

Design - Web 2.0 Layer Styles
A bunch of Photoshop layer styles, with a bunch of gradients for you web 2.0 nuts. A time saver? Maybe for some of you.

Programming - 17 Wordpress Plugins for AdSense
A Mashable article pointing out 17 Wordpress plugins to help with displaying Google AdSense ads in Wordpress.

Changes, Changes

You may have read it last week about the suggested changes that were on the way to Devlounge. Plain and simple, I’m removing all the bloat and putting 90% of the focus on what it should be on - the content. I feel right now, a lot of it falls by the way side. Currently if you land on the homepage for the first time, it can be difficult to navigate, and chances are you’ll end up clicking on content from somewhere else than from Devlounge, because there is so much more of it on the page. The homepage will be split into two columns, with a column on the right containing ads, recent interview photos (like they are displayed now but without the iframe), and some other goodies. The left column will feature someone between 5-10 articles, in large excerpt form leading to the actual full length articles. This should increase circulation of all of our content, which is always helpful, especially right now because I’m swamped with school stuff, upcoming SAT’s, college essays and applications, and a lot of other stuff that is going to be occupying most of my time. It should make it to the stage in a few weeks or less.