onderhond.com turns 1/blowing out the candles
It's been that long already. Even though blogging is pretty hard work, time flies and onderhond.com has been going strong for a solid 52 weeks now. A fair few things were added to the site or were changed altogether, but I always made sure to keep it as recognizable as possible. I've passed the initial pitfalls, now it's key to keep it running all slick and smooth.
the past
Anniversaries are usually seen as an opportunity to look back at what happened, but with Christmas coming up I'll leave the xxx-lists and soggy memories for later times. Looking at the future is a way more fun thing to do.
the future
Blogging takes time, blogging on a self-designed blog (talking about front-end design here) takes even more time. The code I wrote a year ago feels rather old now, the css feels pretty clunky. So I started to write everything from scratch some time ago. In a couple of months time there will be a whole new blog, though the most important changes will be more or less under the hood.
A few design tweaks were made for the new release. Nothing major, I prefer staying as close to my current identity as possible, but some fine-tuning is always welcome. Don't expect to be overwhelmed, it's mostly details and little fiddly things.
Most interestingly is an image gallery I'm planning to add. No Flickr import (crap), but a simple and neat photo gallery for my own private use. Kinda miss it when I'm making those vacation posts.
the future
Apart from that, year 2 will promise the same old, same old. Which I hope is interesting enough to keep people coming around. I'll keep focusing on writing fully developed articles rather than quick scrabbles, putting me in the "blogging is not dead yet" camp I suppose.
Hope the second year will prove as much fun as the first. Thanks for reading and keep coming back!
I'm curious about the upcoming differences, small as they may be. Happy first anniversary Niels.
An image gallery will be a welcome addition. Without pictures these days a blog may seem a bit soul-less. Though if flickr offers a good API, I don't see why you should reinvent the wheel. I just have no clue about what flickr has to offer. Of course it's always more fun to create your own, if only for the academic purpose of implementing a nice tool to do it. I think the tool's a success Niels if you can drag and drop your pictures on them from a folder and they automatically scale to a preset size. :D
Well, you know I like to keep things "my own". One of the things I didn't find in the Flickr API was control over thumb-sizes. Anyway, I still think Flickr itself is a pretty square wheel, so I didn't really look long and hard for answers there.
Hope to get everything running pretty early in 2009, so the wait won't be that long. As for the drag and drop tool, be my guest ;)
Happy anniversary! I wish you many good films to see in the coming years and equally good reviews for us!
Thanks Kurt!
Lots of interesting films coming in 2009 (looking forward to the new Noé film!) so no worries there :)
Well, I do hope to read more about your personal life, if I may say so.. I look forward to those private pics, then..
Great job on the blog.
Happy anniversary! Great job! And I Iook forward to our two anniversaries coming up!! I love you...
Best wishes for the upcoming year, and many thanks for your fine content, particularly on Web development.
Congratulations and :3 for all! :3 :3 :3 :3 :3 :3
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