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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