Last year I wrote an article on CenterNetworks which highlighted my predictions for 2007. Let’s take a look at how wrong and right I was. This is part one of a two part series.

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As most of you are aware, I moronically™ allowed my FTP client to delete my last custom wordpress theme, and I moronically™ didn’t have any backups of it.

Well, it slowed down my posting. For some reason, it’s difficult for me to write when I believe my websites design isn’t up to par. Well, now it is. I started a new design a few days ago and finally went live with it tonight. I haven’t tested in IE6 or IE7 yet, but I’ll be getting to that. Maybe.

That said I designed it with speed, simplicity, and ease of use in mind. I’m not an artist by any means, so I hope it’s aesthetically pleasing. Drop me a few comments and let me know what you think!

There was a phenomenal response to the IE6 banner idea. I promised a followup, so marinate on this for a few. Another idea for phasing out IE6 dawned on me just after I wrote the last article. If I spend 20% - 25% of my time developing for IE6, should I not charge 20% - 25% extra for IE6 support?

The idea is simple. If you’re going to be wasting time, you might as well be paid for it. This expense could be an ingenious way of gathering momentum for stamping out the IE6 embers. That makes me wonder… how much time do YOU spend developing for/fixing IE6 bugs? 10%? 20%? 30%? Is the notion of charging extra for IE support appealing to you?

Well, I decided to update wordpress to 2.3.1, and upon doing so I uploaded the 2.3.1 files… long story short, my FTP client (Transmit 3 from Panic Software) deleted all of my themes and plugins, including my brand new theme, launched last week.

Soooo I suppose you’ll be looking at a bare theme for a while… I’m so pissed off that I’m not even mad. It’ll probably hit me later, though.

This is just a quick link to a site I found rather interesting. We’re all aware of design patterns and what they mean to programmers, but it never dawned on the that the same concepts apply to UI design. I found this site, which deals with such patterns. Although there are only a handful of patterns up right now, I thought it would be a fun quick link to share.

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