Webpl.us redesign – alex de carvalho

Check out the redesigned webpl.us site, which I co-author. Brian Breslin and Antonio Garcia made a visually striking, outstanding design. It’s a three-column layout with a fourth column for the tagline, running vertically up and down the left side. Despite all the columns, the site does not feel busy and the main content column became more readable than under the old design, which wasn’t bad but still had a conventional feel.

Brian uploaded a year’s worth of posts from his webimpressario blog and pointed the domain to webpl.us, which immediately brought up the Webpl.us Google pagerank to a cool 4. The Technorati rank also shot up by half a million in a couple of days, after the changes.

As Webplus finds its way, there may be more changes, including get-togethers, new events and local workshops. In the meantime, webpl.us is hosting the BarcampMiami site, which will be held on February 21st at the UM School of Communications (I’m helping to organize this event).

Brian, along with Kim Grinfeder, Nick Dominguez, Carlos Garcia (with whom I work), Monica Betancourt, among others, have done so much to highlight and encourage the web/tech in Miami and I expect I’ll be talking much more about them and related upcoming events in Miami, of which there are many.

My, how things have changed from this time last year … !

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