I’ve added a brand new “Stats” area while working on the new design (which will have one built in to the code)… you can see it here:
<————– Look that way!
The downside? By default all the “Views” start at a nice round 0. Ugh. I’ve looked and I’ve yet to find a way to “restore” the number of views to what it really should be (from what I can tell, WordPress doesn’t keep track of that). Oh well. I guess it’s better late than never, right? 
If you’d like this plugin, go here: Lester Chan’s WP-Postviews Plugin
Enjoy!
So far, so well goes the website redesign! Currently I have started taking the design and coding the page itself. I’ve made some adjustments and here is a current “sneak peak” of what I have:
That’s actually a screenshot from the live test site! Sweet, huh? I think it looks a bit more professional than my current design, and I’m hoping it’s something I can use for a good long while. My goal is to have this done by mid-March, but since I’m not that great of a fortune teller, we’ll have to see how that goes.
Don’t you hate when you design something, only to find it stolen and sold by another company? Check out these two images:
The one on the left is a shirt by All Saints Apparel. The one on the right is a Valentine card by Mitch. Totally identical. It seems someone liked the design so much they snagged it and turned it into a shirt. Here is the original post about it at 4 color rebellion:
Zounds!
Posh London retailer All Saints Apparel plagiarized a shirt design from the gaming site 4 color rebellion. The site originally unveiled the ‘You Complete Me’ tetris-heart figure for Valentine’s Day in 2006. Designer Mitch was surprised to find that All Saints had plastered the exact same design on a shirt selling for £40—that’s like, $90! Mitch asked All Saints for an explanation, which was enough to prompt a decent resolution.
Well, luckily it looks like this has come to a happy ending. According to this post on the consumerist all is well:
You know, I didn’t expect it to happen, but things actually did end up with (somewhat of) a happy ending. I managed to get back in touch with the head of Manches, the guys that do administrative or production or whatever for All Saints, and we managed to work out a settlement.
Because they deal with plagiarism of their stuff a lot, they were apparently very receptive and sympathetic. Apparently, designers get about 2 - 3 percent of the profits in royalties. I managed to squeeze 7.5% out of them. So, that equals out to about $2,400 with the weak dollar.
Long story short, I’ve licensed the design to them for this run, and I’m still in ownership of it.
All in all, they were kind to me about it - however, from what I hear, them paying me wiped out all of their profit on these shirts. Should teach their designers a lesson!
Good for him! I hope designers start learning the internet is a good place for ideas, but not a place to steal whatever they want to profit!
Alright! I’m finally getting somewhere on the new site design! Nothing against this design, but I’ve had it for over a year now and it bores me. Well, to be honest I think it looks a bit unprofessional. Such a silly thought, I’m sure, but it’s what I think every time I look at it. Now then, onto the good stuff!
So, here’s what you currently see:
Not horrible, but not great, either. Now, here’s what I’m thinking the site will look like:
Pretty sweet, huh? Now I’m sure there will be more changes between this and the final product, but at least I’m getting somewhere. I think that this will make me happy. Also, I’ll be changing (and using) the photo gallery as well as finally having a real home page of sorts. Hurrah! Now I just have to stick with it between the 100 other things I have to do.
Hmmm… I’m getting kinda bored with my current layout. I think I need to re-design it, as I haven’t touched this thing up in forever now. Should I go dark? Keep it light? Completely change it? Keep it kinda the same? Who knows… maybe later this week I’ll play around with some designs and see what comes from it.
