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Changes

Posted: May 21st, 2008 | Author: Iancu | Filed under: design, identity, personal | 13 Comments »

iancul

Just as always, when it comes to doing something for personal use, I am clearly my own worst client (as Mrs. Marian Bantjes very well describes). I’ve been planning on a new layout, new logo and new domain for some time now, but procrastinating seems to be a designer’s deep-rooted habit. I managed to buy the new domain just after the RoBlogFest competition, but the logo was still a sketch on paper while the blog’s layout was a more-than-vague idea in my head.

The credit for changing the domain name and showing the new logo today goes only to Globehosting, my hosting providers, who promptly responded to my last night’s questions and moved the whole website to the new domain (I only wanted the information, but they really did a good thing going further, this kick in the butt sure helped :D).

In short, the new name is iancul (I will explain it when everything’s finished), the old bookmarks will still work as ibarbar.ro is mine and redirects to the new domain, but please update your links with the new name—thank you. I hope I’ll finish the new layout soon (sooner than before, hopefully :D). For now, you can admire the new logo. Comments, critics, ideas are welcome, as always.

Later edit:
- feeds seem to be working well now. If you have any other problems please let me know. Thanks.
- I’ve managed to make a reversed-colour favicon as well. Neat :D

13 Comments on “Changes”

  1. 1 mihai said at 1:19 PM on May 21st, 2008:

    i’m sure you mean Mrs. Marian Bantjes ;)

  2. 2 Iancu said at 1:32 PM on May 21st, 2008:

    Right, stupid me. Thanks a lot :)

  3. 3 Adi said at 6:12 PM on May 21st, 2008:

    IanCool :)

  4. 4 Reactive said at 8:30 PM on May 21st, 2008:

    impress us with the new design!

  5. 5 Kit said at 11:35 PM on May 21st, 2008:

    Atom working for me.

  6. 6 Dragos said at 12:47 AM on May 22nd, 2008:

    Nice kanji treatment :)
    Why is “IA” turned like that?

  7. 7 Iancu said at 2:02 AM on May 22nd, 2008:

    Dragos, I’ll probably never get to tell this to a client: BECAUSE I LIKE IT LIKE THAT :))

  8. 8 Mihai said at 3:01 PM on May 22nd, 2008:

    Dupa cum ziceam, ubercool! :D

  9. 9 Eugen Erhan said at 11:21 PM on May 22nd, 2008:

    may you wear it in good health!
    looks cool, i like.
    also, – wow – such a short word dot com was free – coool!
    congrats, keep them posts up and runnin!

  10. 10 Iancu said at 11:39 PM on May 22nd, 2008:

    Thanks mate :)
    Finding the .com still available was a great thing, and it’s a lot better than getting the name-surname.com type. The posts won’t be coming very often, but I’ll do my best to make them worth it :)

  11. 11 David Pache said at 4:35 PM on June 20th, 2008:

    Really liking the execution here. Nice

  12. 12 Iancu said at 4:39 PM on June 20th, 2008:

    Thank you, David. Too bad I can’t find the time to finish the new layout as well. But soon, I hope, soon… :)

  13. 13 iancul » Wordpress 2.7—at last said at 4:56 PM on January 29th, 2009:

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