Well, I’ve run into a couple of setbacks with the redesign. All of them have to do with the backend. The frontend of things is pretty much set. There’s some minor things I want to add, like some images and some hidden features that aren’t available in this screenshot.

To be honest, I don’t think a blog is the best setup for divspace. It’s doing the job for now, but in the near future I’ll be writing my own backend to handle the needs of the site and to turn my vision into a reality.

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I guess I should have made this my first post, but thought I would have come up with a design faster than this. Yes, the divspace logo looks just like Digg’s logo. Yes, the gradient header looks just like theirs too. And yes, even the search form mimics theirs.

Can I design? After all, this is a website about web development, which would include web design. And granted there aren’t any articles about web design yet, I can design.

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I decided to make a tag cloud for WordPress today, but with a twist. Most of the tag clouds I see were category tag clouds, meaning they were based on the number of posts in a category. I don’t really have enough categories yet to do something like this though. Instead, this is more of a keyword or post tag cloud.

This kind of cloud tag makes a little more sense to me, at least from the perspective of a visitor. They can, in one quick view, tell exactly what you talk about in your blog posts. I also made it so visitors can click on any of the tags and it will use the built-in search engine to find posts with whatever word they clicked on.

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