When you’re starting a new website, you need to come up with a name as soon as possible. How soon? You should pick a name before you start building your layout and all that. Why? Well, it’s not easy to make a logo and matching color scheme for a site without a name.
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Yearly Archives: 2007
Naming Your Site: No, “Bob” Isn’t a Good Name
Jul 28, 2007 by Matt | Posted in Featured, General 7 CommentsWebsites Through The Years: The Leaky Cauldron
Jul 27The oldest (and best) Harry Potter website, The Leaky Cauldron, has just updated their layout today. It seems like a good opportunity to feature them on Websites Through The Years.
Websites Through The Years: Blogger
Jul 26Blogger, perhaps the most famous free blog provider, pretty much kick-started the blog phenomenon. Though Blogger doesn’t measure up with a self-hosted WordPress installation, it’s a heck of a lot better than LiveJournal and WordPress.com. October 12, 1999 Not much, is it? This is…
BlogBuzz July 25, 2007
Jul 25Websites Through The Years: Ars Technica
Jul 24Ars Technica is one of my favorite tech news sites. Though they’ve been around since 1998, they’ve had very few layout redesigns. Nowadays they have an ultra-cool design, but they didn’t start out that way… April 22, 1999 I despise (most) designs with a…
A Small Orange
Jul 24Are you tired of paying for mediocre hosting? It’s common knowledge that big hosting companies like Dreamhost and BlueHost oversell their services, claiming to offer “300GB of storage” and “3000GB of bandwidth” for a low cost of $6 a month (or similar). When you’re…
Websites Through The Years: CNet
Jul 23Welcome back to Websites Through The Years! Today we tackle CNet, one of the oldest tech sites. We’ll start with the earliest design the Wayback Machine could find: October 1996. October 22, 1996 Nothing says “90s” like a design like that! Okay… The yellow…
Websites Through The Years: Yahoo
Jul 22After the success of Web Sites Before and After, I decided to start an article series going more in-depth about the various websites. In Websites Through The Years, I’ll be picking some designs and, with the help of the Wayback Machine, going over the…
Pageflakes Blizzard Release
Jul 19Pageflakes has just released their new “Blizzard Release.” Still going head-to-head with their competitor (Netvibes), Pageflakes has been busy. The new build has not just caught-up with Netvibes, but it’s gone beyond it. You can now customize the heck out of your Pageflakes pages,…
