Official Website of Michael J Kowalczuk | Tech Writer | Educational Technologistgraphic design » Official Website of Michael J Kowalczuk | Tech Writer | Educational Technologist http://www.michaelkowalczuk.com Thinking up. Mon, 02 May 2011 03:52:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Blog Design by Illiana Shabatova http://www.michaelkowalczuk.com/2010/05/blog-design-by-illiana-shabatova/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.michaelkowalczuk.com/2010/05/blog-design-by-illiana-shabatova/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 03:13:17 +0000 admin http://www.michaelkowalczuk.com/?p=930 Its June 23rd 2010. This is one of my favorite blog designs for 2010. I didn’t have the time to thank you enough Illiana for your due diligence and your excellent work on the design. It started in November 2009 when the blog site went down, and the content disappeared, and I do apologize to all daily newsreaders for the long delay. Every year, I try to bring something fresh to the website and to the blog. In most cases, it turns out to be long, and tedious. By November 2009 the links were still active and if I searched on most of the Google keywords, they would bring up my page compared to nearly 100,000 other related items [not bad for a dead website]. Its June 2010 – and I really really wanted to use this design. The design would have featured a simplistic [banner on top and links on the right] “pure-breed” blog. That never happened. Because those “pure-breed” designs are based on blogging 2.0. None of them are prepared for Web Blogging 3.0 [I'll explain this in a new post - basically the incorporation of social blogging on your blog without evidently using plugins].  Now as you no doubt know, Twine is probably one of the first websites out there that is “trying” to entertain the idea of a Web 3.0 – stay tuned for a full posting about Web 3.0 evolution/revolution [an article I will feature about Gen Y in the ninety-sixth percentile]. Currently we’re still in web 2.0. I’m not really sure where web 3.0 will take us, but I think this template for this website is a good start. What I’m seeing in the industry now, is more and more blogs [almost 99%] of blogs look the same way aesthetically and functionally.  I believe content will always be worth more than graphics- even a graphic with a word in it is much more valuable than a graphic with nothing to say about it.  Which is why I absolutely love this blog design. I want to thank Illiana for her amazing work, we look forward to more good things.

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