Welcome to the new design!

We wanted to show the creativity and innovation we strive for by trying something new. Most sites are designed to be either left justified or dead center. We believe that a site can work in any alignment if done properly, so we wondered if our skills could indeed design a right justified design that looked good.

In contrast to our previous design, we thought of going from fluid width design to a “tiny” design as well as making it right justified.

WordPress 2.8

The new release continues with the backend design introduced with 2.7 but adds a few tweaks and improvements. Also new is a streamlined Plug In management system. This new system will allow users to install plugins without having to leave your admin area. Pretty nifty. One of our favorite additions is the new code editor. Color coding and line numbers! Good stuff.

We’re still testing some of the new features on our WordPress installs so if we find anything worth mentioning, you can be sure it will be noted on our blog.

News

Tomorrow is WordCamp RDU and we’ll be attending! If you aren’t familiar with WordCamps you can read more on the WordCamp homepage. It’s basically a conference for WordPress, although it is more accurately referred to as an UNconference. It’s not as big but just as informative, if not more so. We’ll be live blogging the event on our Twitter account, @FiveMediaDesign. Speakers include Matt Mullenweg of Automattic and many local web developers and bloggers as well. Should be a good geeky time!

Please leave your thoughts on our new design and on the newest WordPress release in the comments!

UPDATE: WordCamp RDU was amazing.  I am writing up a quick post on my experiences and impressions.  The live blogging was done through my personal account, @Guamaso.