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Found the time to do a visual makeover on Fun Side, a personal notebook about various subjects resourced from the web.

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I wanted a site that followed the main Web 2.0 directives, with bright colors but not too “cartoony”. The content here is the most important feature so that had to be in the spotlight.

I also wanted it designed with current standards, which was tedious work due to the fact that the site was originally running on Joomla. I ended up modifying a lot of Joomla’s core files. It wasn’t a good experience and I ended up using the more elegant WordPress platform instead.

Of course all of the content is written by me as well, which is an on-going effort…

Re-released my multimedia services front.

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This time around the website functions solely as an online portfolio of my personal work. Shockwave elements have been implemented to showcase the 3d models and a variety of other technologies like Flash and JavaScript have been used to present the visual parts of the content.

After 8 years of operating as a free services portal, we decided to change our main website and devote it to what it main purpose really is – a central place to promote the network of websites we have created.

(website was updated)

This new approach required a different graphic interface, and of course a totally different structure. Some of the content was moved to KDIdata.com but everything was constructed from the ground up as if it was a new website.

New expectations from the online users create new specifications for online services. With that thought we re-released the website using the wiki prototype. This will give more freedom for the users to modify and add their own information.

URL: http://www.guide4greece.com

After the feedback from the beta release, a series of updates were implemented. First an foremost the site was redesigned visually, to fit the character of the website. Other big changes were the relocation of the site to a “spacious” server and the conversion of the existing content to UTF-8. New features for the users include the ability to create a personal blog, gather points from their activity and include attachments in their posts in the forum. Alongside with smaller changes in the content, the website became almost unrecognizable.

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