Others did it already, and I also intend to make it a tradition. This is the list of cities i visited in 2006:
Most of you are probably stressed out from the busy advent season and will be enjoying a few days off. I wish all my readers and your families Merry Christmas and calm, relaxing holidays. Have a nice time.
If you haven’t previously read about Web Directions North, let me introduce you to the top-notch web development conference of 2007. Web Directions North will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on February 7th and 8th 2007. There’s also an optional day with workshops on February 6th, and post conference skiing on February 9th and 10th.
This is your chance to meet all the the major webdesign stars and gurus. Put together by designers and web developers, for designers and web developers, this conference is brought to you by Dave Shea from Mezzoblue and CSS Zen Garden who is also the co-author of the brilliant book The Zen of CSS Design. The 5 day conference features speakers such as Douglas Bowman, Dan Cederholm, Molly Holzschlag, Veerle Pieters, and many more. These are the people who have inspired me dozens of times and set the course for standards-based design. Over two days and nights, Web Directions North is packed tight with talks by these renowned speakers and experts, parties, and more.
If all of this isn’t enough for you, this picture from the Blackcomb Whistler skiing area can surely change your mind. This is not only one of the worlds greatest skiing and snowboarding destinations, it’s also the home of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Photo by Andre Charland
Don’t waste time, grab your skis or snowboard and quickly get a ticket to Web Directions North.
Welcome, gentle reader, to the next iteration of the aetherworld. I’ve gone slack with my personal websites once contract based work started to eat away at my time and side projects fought over the remaining scraps. Well, here I go again. I’ve found out that for me there’s nothing better than drastic changes to get me back in line. This time, however, I’m not only relauncing but also redefining, redesigning and rebooting the aetherworld.
First registered somewhere around 2000 (if my memory serves me right), the aetherworld has almost never had a consistant purpose. At one point it was a personal link collection, then a place to try out various CSS layouts, a listing for my music collection, a place where I blogged about design and tech stuff and for the past year, it was dead. Literally.
The first logical step for me is redefining, what the aetherworld should become. I decided to turn it into a blog again, forcing me to concentrate more on content than on presentation. I want it to be a place to share my web design and web development work as well as personal thoughts on various topics.
Old aetherworld layouts
Whenever I have a blank paper in front of me, something inside of me wants to draw, to design, to make the paper become something beautiful, something with a purpose and something pleasant to look at. A blank paper and a pencil is my greatest incentive for starting to work on a project.
The same goes for a blank website. I could have chosen to design the site in private, work on the layout till it’s perfect, and only then make the finished version go live. I chose not to. A blank and unstyled website is as much incentive to get me working as a blank paper. Every time i see the naked aetherworld, I’ll want to style it, make it better, make it look beautiful. That will be my way to give myself a kick in the ass.
I thought my live design was a unique idea. That’s why I was really shocked when I saw other people doing the same. Well, so there goes novelty.
Anyway, the design process will be completely live and will take place over a longish period of time. I’m planning to be finished before January 1st though. So bear with me as I’m adding content and layout and expect things to break from time to time.