Definitely one of my most successful themes. Very stylish, very web 2.0 and very neat. Dark layout ready for ads, juicy colours and big rss icon, blended in the design. Compatible with all browsers and resolutions. Enjoy!

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So, it’s safe to say that the “big G” as we all called it, is now a “small” g.  Google has officially changed their favicon, from capital G letter to a small ‘g’, which will look more similar to the infinity sign — ?. Are they trying to attract immortality karma, now that their stocks collapsed? I wonder if it will help, apart from thausands of bored webmasters writing about their 16 pixels new icon.

Honestly? I don’t like the new icon. Do you?

In this case — both. Lunar Pages, as you probably know, is holding a new contest for WordPress themes developpers and my partner, who also coded this very blog’s theme, has entered with his “Gaia” wp layout. All the entries are worth winning but of course I support my partner and please you do too, only a few days left to vote!

Yesterday for the first time my feedburner cricklet broke a new record of 430+ readers.

Pretty weird considering I did not even make a new post to send a ping out but who cares, I’d love to stay on the 400+ balance. So please  don’t unsubscribe, ever!

Now to the bigger, much bigger news… One of my photoshop babies — pswish.com made it to the Adobe’s blog directory. Yes, that one, formerly known as weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna and now officially http://feeds.adobe.com.

For a few minutes, I was even first in the line.

Rounding up this post, I am curious to see how PSwish.com’s feed count react tomorrow, after all the Adobe’s directory is based on feeds, so basically if 40 feeds were requested over the past 12 hours, my readers count should raise? We will wait and see, and now good night to all my 415 readers!

As being a designer myself I often browse other’s blog to see what tips and tricks I can learn from the bigger sharks out there, and one of these lovely “sharks” will of course be the writers behind stylishdesign.com - Robert and Andrei. If you also read their blog (and if you don’t I highly recommend you to!) you will learn plenty of new things about Google, SEO, internet, web design, networks and even servers. By the way, speaking of which — have you read their article about server backup yet? Quite amusing article, just try to keep track with the numbers throughout the story. Finally someone does NOT blame the software and hardware!

You must have seen my face tonight when I opened LoreleiWebDesign.com just to update the low pricing offer which had expired at the end of the month, and… what do I see on the Google tool bar? PageRank 6.

Dang. Hey, Google, are you serious?

But sure, as usual every PageRank update brings some victories and causalities. My 2 new websites, which I just lunched 1-2 months ago - pswish.com and onweekends.net went straight up to PR4. But there is also a handful of PR loses, for example - digitalfreephoto.com went down from PR4 to PR3, and same story with loreleiweb.com and smileyskit.com, so basically you may sell links or you may not, if big G doesn’t want you to rank higher, you won’t.

I am more amazed though, that toptut.com is STILL PR3. Any calculation shows that it should be at least PR5, with over 80,000 backlinks, most of which are quality. And Google should know that we are stingy here and don’t buy any links. Oh well, one PR6 is a little better than three PR2’s, don’t you agree?

Looks like not only we got featured on CSS Container yesterday, but we were also chosen to be the site of the week! Pretty of the guys behind CSS container, thanks!

By the way, just 10 more incoming links and we will make it to the  top 100 most linked-to blogs on Technorai. Doing well so far. Have a great weekend peeps!

Okay, I am pretty sure that an average blogger who posts often is NOT going to like wordpress 2.5.

Everything seems to be in the wrong position, you can’t find anything and the “simplified” in-theory menu, is in practice seems to be rather complicated. For example, instead of just using the upload window below the post, now you need to click on the small image near “add media”, and wait until the window is loaded (about 5-10 seconds), and choose to upload from your computer, which is additional load time. Then, when you finally uploaded your poor photo (alleluia to that!), you need to choose parameters and alignment of the picture. Sounds simple? Well, it will take time to get used to it…

For choosing, in which category you want to file your post, you need to scroll down, because in the place where categories were normally located you see a menu of “related functions”… Hmm, if I am already making a post, why to put links with “manage tags” and “manage categories” under my nose, while it would be far more useful to display related posts close by, so that I, if needed, could link to them..? Oh and, when you work in Visual Editor and choose to insert hyperlink, in previous versions, the “http://” part would be selected by default and disappear if you click or paste URL, while in the new version it stays unselected, so if you just follow the habit and paste URL without removing the “http://”, you will have it twice and.. yeah, url won’t work.

Is there anything good though?

You can run spell check in 12 languages, and… and manage your plug ins, settings and users, if you put your glasses on and look good enough in every corner.

Bottom line… While everything is so web 2.0 and so rounded that it hurts the eyes, why oh why no one in this whole wordpress department could crop the bottom WP logo better..? Okay, once I will locate the “publish” button — this post goes online.