Matt Heerema

The Unofficial Apple Weblog Redesign

Brilliant, amazing, the best yet. Mark did a stellar job on the TUAW redesign. My two designers keep one-upping each other in brilliance ever since they were hired on a little over a year ago. It’s full speed ahead. Can’t wait to keep informing you of our upcoming re-launches.

More info on the redesign and a ton of feedback already at the redesign post on TUAW.

I redesigned!

Welcome to mattheerema.com version 5 (an arbitrary version declaration. I have long since lost track of design iterations, so I decided on 5.). I’m calling it “still waters”.

Last month I posted about a design I had lingering around that I wanted to make into a real live site someday. A few weeks later, I canceled my WoW account. A few days later, I had the site prototyped and Wordpress theme built. I’ve been waiting for a chance to write some permanent page content and an introductory post ever since.

Along with the redesign comes some restructuring of the content and theme. I have changed the way the archives work in hopes of longer-term intelligibility and I will likely be broadening the topics covered here in from simply Web design related matters, though that will continue to comprise the bulk of the posts for the time being. I am conceiving of this site as more a personality site now, combining my various “worlds”, music, religion, spirituality, theology, social networking, design, the Web (in general) and anything else that strikes my fancy or is important. I promise it won’t be too great a diversion from the current theme (for now).

As with everything I’ve ever done on this site and my other personal sites, this will likely remain under construction for a long time, so apologies for the mess. This new design will give me greater freedom to expand and evolve in a coherent fashion.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy!

WebMonkey.com Relaunches

So I must have missed this one, but age old Web design resource WebMonkey.com has relaunched. It is completely revamped and is gorgeous.

One of the coolest things I’ve seen so far is that all of the tutorials are managed by MediaWiki and are completely globally editable! No more out-datedness!

Nice work. Hoping to see some great content here soon.