Alex complained a bit about what the front page of the new plasticpilots looked liked but I think with the new one it’s much better now.
The right sidebar is a bit broader and moved a bit left to make space for bigger thumbnails. The latest comments were removed for now and there are five posts now.
Any comments on the new look? Alex?
It’s been a month now since Alex and I started talking and since Sunday the new software is online and live. A few things have changed besides that.
The old software, expression engine, was not that flexible like the new one will be. You can expect interesting new features, easier submission, integration of external webservices and other stuff.
There will be a newsletter pretty soon, you can already subscribe to it.
It’s been a few months months since Alex wrote about letting go plasticpilots and finally he found someone.
I’m Thomas R. Koll (aka TomK32), living in Berchtesgaden, Germany, just a few kilometers away from Alex’s home. Luckily I was the first asking for taking over pp who was not a nasty SEO, offered a bit more money than those did and has a good plan for the future of plasticpilots.
I guess you want to know a few things about the new owner: I have clearly no talent for webdesign, though my first steps on the internet were on OSWD, but I’m a good developer and love good design. My plans for plasticpilots are giving it a new software next week putting a lot of time into it to get it living again. The new software will be custom but open source and you can find it at GitHub. In a few weeks you will be able to use that software for your own portfolio.
I hope that everyone will enjoy the new plasticpilots and it will become a vivid source for inspiration again like it was earlier. If you have ideas, suggestion etc for plasticpilots, please let me know and send a mail to tomk32@gmx.de
Are you interested in taking over plasticpilots.com? It has been around for several years and got a great reputation. The current google rank is 5 and there are some 800 rss subscribers. Find more details here.
Joe Ebert and Mario (Quasimondo) Klingemann experiment on some awesome intelligent image resizing. if you watch it: keep in mind: it’s FULLY automated..
see quasimondo’s stuff here
This may not be a big thing, but it’s damn cool to use. Create your customized loader-gif instantly at ajaxload.info !
Vecteezy.com: stupid name, cool vectors (that is what they say). And boy! – are those vectors cool. And free, too!
Splice Music takes the mix of music and community-website to a whole new level by including the tools for creating the music within the site itself. What they’ve managed to achieve using flash8 is remarkable, but what’s even more exciting is that according to this blog post the tool is about to be relaunched with a huge flash9/actionscript 3.0 upgrade along with an injection of some Andre Michelle magic that promises to terrify the creators of music packages like Reason, Garage Band and Fruity Loops!
Now we have proof of AS3’s speed improvement. Find out more though this great demonstration.
New Monocle has just launched (for real and on paper). We have not seen it yet but the website looks nice enough. Has anybody seen it in the wild?
plasticpilots has been awarding outstanding webdesign since 2002, and 2008 is a new beginning for it. Expect activity and bring in some curiosity for the ideas the new owner has.
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