Hey everyone! My name is Robert and I’m the Lead Visual Designer here at Cooliris. I thought I’d take a few moments to tell you all about our new blog: The Watercooler.
Ever since we launched our website redesign last October, we’ve been working on creating a new blog. We wanted something that was more than just marketing tool, and we wanted something that appealed to more than people related to Cooliris.
When designing the new blog, I took cues from two of my favorite blogs, Daring Fireball and Boing Boing. Daring Fireball has two great entry styles, a linked list format, and then a more traditional long post. So we’re adding a Daring Fireball linked list style post to things that we find are interesting. The Linked List entries will be launching soon. Boing Boing has many distinct voices, so we’re inviting more members of the company to participate, so you’ll be able to get different perspectives from different people.
Light Switch
One thing we’ve noticed is that some of you guys have difficulty reading light text on a dark background. So by default we’ve designed our blog to be dark text on a light background, however if you’re like some of us and up at 3:00am, you can switch to light text on a dark background so you’ll be able to read the blog without hurting your eyes.
Linkage on the Left
Along with recent and popular posts, we’ve joined some of the top social networks so you can keep track of what we’re up to. If you’re on any of those networks, we’d love for you to friend us! We’ve also added links to our Media Kit, and Tell A Friend pages, so if you’re feeling compelled to spread the word of Cooliris, you can!
Comments
We always love to hear back from our friends. Drop us a line at blog@cooliris.com. Feel free to write to us about our posts, or if you’ve written about Cooliris or spotted it in the wild.
