The last minutes of 2007
When I write this, the new year is less than 30 minutes away. I won't make any summary of the year that has passed, but it has definitely been a good year in general. Not a perfect year, since I have gone through a number of crashes and faced a lot of problems. But still a positive year which has created opportunities to give 2008 a great start and hopefully make it a year of adventures and interesting challenges…
There will be a number of changes coming up soon. The new site design is completed, and I'm hoping to launch it tomorrow (January 1st) as planned. I'm back into music again, and not working alone on a hobby level any more but instead being a part of a professional team. An announcement about that will be made some time into the new year! New template content has been created, the WordPress themes are being updated, more related content will be added - and 2008 will also see a new site section for royalty-free digital art that you can use for free in headers, as backgrounds or in any other way you want to.
The future looks interesting, and I'm ready for new adventures. Thank you all who have followed me and supported me during 2007! I hope that you'll be around in 2008 as well, and I sure hope that I'll be able to provide you with useful, free and high-quality material again. I know myself good enough to not make any final promises, but I can give you one guarantee: I'll do my best. At all times.
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Comment from Jason Cole
Time: January 1, 2008, 6:10
I'm looking forward to seeing the new design, and even more inspiring templates. It is 10 minutes into the new year for me, and it already feels like it is going to be a good one. Cheers.
Comment from AlthA WordPress Consultancy
Time: January 1, 2008, 14:24
Thx a lot for all your great work on this blog over the last year, and I'll certainly be here to read everything you post in the coming year!
Comment from Stephen
Time: January 1, 2008, 18:22
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering.
Andreas, happy new year!
BTW, where your new templates?
Comment from Kraig
Time: January 2, 2008, 22:22
I'll wish you a successful, creative and healthy new year!
Comment from Louie
Time: January 3, 2008, 2:20
Hi Andreas, my name is Louie and i am from los angeles where I am also studying web design and wanting to learn something new always. I was wondering about that topic on your site where "what your site is worth", that is a joke right??? I have not been up to date with your post so I dont know about that stuff. Something else, I was wondering if I may link your page onto my blog for inspirational pursposes? it would be awesome to have your site on my blog? Hope to hear from you. Thanks
Comment from roturism
Time: January 3, 2008, 16:41
I wish you a Happy & Prosperous New Year.
thanks a lot for your designs, a true source of inspiration.
Comment from Jose Antonio Morales
Time: January 3, 2008, 20:44
Hello Andreas,
Happy new year and my best wishes of success and a peaceful year!
My company is looking to sponsor the work of web designers willing to make free new templates, like the ones I can see on your web site.
If you are interested please drop me a line. We started just a few months ago, we realized 2 first templates. You can get the story in the Blog we opened for this project: http://webpoint.wordpress.com/
The company we sponsored is http://www.solucija.com/
Hope to count with you!
Kind regards,
Jose Antonio
p.d. Please feel free to share my contact information if you think some other designer would be interested in the offer.
Comment from Steffi - femwerk webdesign
Time: January 7, 2008, 12:50
Thxs for your inspiring work in 2007 (like the featured mp3s) and best wishes for the future…
Comment from Stephen Kane
Time: January 10, 2008, 6:35
A friend turned me on to your site yesterday. Today, I downloaded Falling Leaves to check out the quality, compliance and accessibility of the coding and to see how much trouble it might be to make it fit a particular purpose.
It's really awesome quality at any price, so I wanted to write and say thank you Andreas. Your templates are like fast track tutorials on the right way to code. But it is the spirit of your site that inspires me!
Kudos!
Comment from Mats
Time: January 11, 2008, 9:43
Happy new year to all of you too! This year will be the best year ever!
Comment from Sean
Time: January 1, 2008, 1:22
Hi Andreas. We have about 7.5 hours until midnight/the New Year. I'm in GMT -8. Happy New Year to you and yours. I look forward to all the new and exciting things you plan on showing us. It's good to have you back around your site.