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12 Oct 2007 - 09:45 in , tagged , , , by Michael Daum
Once again this site has been redesigned. Well, for 1 year, 4 months we had the ``black water'' theme, dark and quite special. This wasn't quite appropriate anymore as business expanded from that of a free lancing TWiki consultant to a real company. So enjoy the much improved current design.
This is much more corporate designing, although with a touch of irony and fun, much brighter. I first went to 4templates, a great site for html, flash, logos and business cards, as I did not want to come up with a design all by myself. So I bought this one for a couple of bucks and finished it in TWiki/NatSkin. Infact, I had to rewrite it mostly, leaving only the basic idea and colorset in place. The package I downloaded from 4templates was coded too badly and surely was not fit to cover a CMS. In addition its imagery was targeted at a medical site, not an internet consultancy. However, I really liked the original design and its potential to be quite appropriate.

Well, and then I went out and bought the michaeldaumconsulting.com domain to get away with using the wikiring.de domain for my own business. While the primary brand of this site is MD Consulting, the WikiRing will only be used as a secondary branding, as required by the Terms of Business for WikiRing partners.

I moved over all the content and user accounts from the old JojoWiki blog in here as I didn't want to cut that off and all blogging happening here from now on will be in direct continuation of what was there, a mix of business related and personal news and opinions.

So while the old JojoWiki site was a blog foremost, the MD Consulting site is much more of an corporate site, which happens to integrate a blog as well.

I am not sure what I will do with the old JojoWiki theme. Maybe I am going to open source it as part of the NatSkin package.

Ok, so this all is quite fresh and the MD theme for this site is not quite finished with some rough edges here and there. For those of you that use the NatSkinStyleBrowser to explore available designs you will experience that the markup of the current site does not fit 100% the standard css of NatSkin. That's mostly due to the reworked header art and logos for the MD theme. I will find a way around this soon.

Last not least a message to all you rss feed readers: come along and visit this site ... and drop me a line of what you think.


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