Welcome to Nine By Blue!

November 20, 2008

Hi Everyone! Welcome to the new site. I’m still working on moving everything over, so you may find that a lot of the links don’t work and that other things are a bit wonky. Please let me know if you run into construction!

Special thanks to Nate, Cesar, Michael, Mohit, Chris, and his brother Patrick.

It may take a bit for the dust to settle, but I’m still planning to blog here, as well as use this site as the launching pad for all the ideas I come up with. As soon as I’m finished with these redirects, I’ll be back to give you a proper tour, but for now, feel free to look around!

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17 Comments

Brian
November 20th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

Hi Vanessa! I was wondering, did you hire Dan from Simplebits design your blog? Or did you just copy his?

Vanessa
November 20th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

I do like the Simple Bits layout quite a bit. I just took a look and it looks like we have similar navigation in our headers. But Sung over at More + 1 did the design for me, and Mohit created the Wordpress theme. And Cesar did a bunch of backend changes to make it all work. (And Patrick did the icons.) We actually have been working on the design and layout for about six months. Crazy, I know!

Amit Agarwal
November 20th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

Congrats Vanessa. And good luck.

Nathan
November 20th, 2008 at 11:02 pm

Congratulations on your new website (BTW I don’t think it looks much like simiple bits)

Sankar Datti
November 21st, 2008 at 12:23 am

That Sounds good Vanessa. Best of Luck n congrats.

Ed Richardson
November 21st, 2008 at 12:50 am

Congrats on the new site (note to self, must get round to revisiting all of those ideas on my site), Google Reader even brings up your previous articles as new.

Enjoy your new home!

Charlie Anzman
November 21st, 2008 at 6:08 am

Best of luck Vanessa. Looks great Charlie

Brian M
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:38 am

Looks great from where I am! Best of Luck! Brian M

Dennis
November 24th, 2008 at 9:45 am

Hi Vanessa, your new website is really looking excellent! Congratultions! Good luck and many new visitors for you

Du Nguyen
November 25th, 2008 at 2:44 am

Your blog is always in my Google Reader. Ah, are you testing on Redirects? I check and get 302 found.

BTW, good luck and waiting for your very own blog posts.

admin
November 25th, 2008 at 8:37 am

Thanks Du. Yup, I’m testing several different ways of doing redirects and how they’re picked up by the different search engines. I’ve tested a couple of different methods for redirecting the feed as well. Hope to do a detailed article on it all in the next week or so.

Benj Arriola
November 25th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

First time I saw this site, I said… WTH, a scraper that even scraped all the comments too. Then I read the about page…

Why the change? Doesn’t sound that catchy anymore. :p

krishna
November 26th, 2008 at 7:01 am

Hmmmm..By the way i was just wondering what’s this Nine By Blue exactly mean or relates too. Any reason behind choosing this name Vanessa?. Just curious to know

Saad Kamal
November 26th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

Congrats on the new launch. Looking forward to see more from Nine By Blue

Tom Lindstrom
November 28th, 2008 at 6:11 am

Congratulations on the new site.Will be checking back later.

Glen Allsopp
November 29th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

I’ve just had to double-check the address bar because I thought I was on the simple bits website. Haha, just kidding. It looks nothing like Simplebits.

Congratulations on the move, I’m interested in why you came up with the name so maybe a post on that in the near future?

Cheers,
Glen

Dave Dugdale
December 13th, 2008 at 8:19 am

Congrats on the new site, I am downloading the Cranky Geeks podcast and will listen to it when I go for my walk today.