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9rules.com v2.0 Coming Soon
Written by Mike Rundle on October 24, 2005
If you’ve wondered what the 9rules crew has been up to the past few weeks, wonder no more. We’ve been hard at work on the second version of our website which will provide multilingual support, an updated user interface (I get sick of looking at my sites after, say, 3 months), and a whole lot more snazziness. Because it’s a pretty large step for us, we’ll be rolling it out in phases over the course of the next few weeks. Also, we’ll be finally getting to use our new dedicated servers our friends at (mt) Media Temple so graciously provided us.
We planned on unleashing v2.0 today, but our fearless CEO Paul Scrivens is currently without power in Tampa, FL due to Wilma’s lashing winds and rain, so we’re going to wait a few days until things clear up and all is back to normal. I talked to Paul yesterday, and he assured me that his generator has been working overtime to power Xbox LIVE so thank goodness his essentials are taken care of.
October 24th, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Can’t wait to see it!
October 24th, 2005 at 2:12 pm
same here… should be great
October 24th, 2005 at 2:23 pm
Looking forward to it!
October 24th, 2005 at 5:05 pm
I hope it fixes the severe usability problems I have with this site. I think there needs to be a better way of exploring instead of just refreshing the main page. Other than that, I love the design.
oh and feature request: screenshots of sites so I can find a site that I liked, but couldn’t remember the name.
October 24th, 2005 at 6:32 pm
Glen C.: Thanks for the suggestions. We’re working hard to fix some of the problems inherent in this current version.
Anyone else have some suggestions?
October 25th, 2005 at 2:56 am
I wrote a post on my blog about the niches that blog networks pursue and included 9rules. I’d like to encourage you to alphabetize and categorize your blogs, even though categorization is sometimes difficult.
It makes it much easier to locate what you want- especially with 70+ blogs already on your network!
October 25th, 2005 at 12:15 pm
Kelley: This will absolutely be found in our new version. Along with some added features to help you find what you want much faster. Thanks for the suggestions.
October 25th, 2005 at 1:53 pm
I just hope it’s not ugly like this one, and that the list of sites are even more difficult to browse.
I kid. I kid. Looking forward to seeing how ya’ll handle the multi-lingual thing.
October 25th, 2005 at 4:10 pm
9rules 2.0 — bigger and better than Web 2.0.
October 25th, 2005 at 11:21 pm
So where is it?
October 26th, 2005 at 7:09 am
(^^ The million dollar question)
October 26th, 2005 at 9:33 am
I am a great fan of the current design (and, for that matter, the network as a whole) — but hey, a redesign is understandable if you’re getting tired of it
Good luck with the roll-out. I know those can be unforeseeably eventful.
Weeee!
October 26th, 2005 at 11:05 am
I love the old design, but I understand sometimes it’s just time for something new. I hope you leave a link or something somewhere so we can still at least look at a screenshot of the old site!
October 27th, 2005 at 4:48 pm
Are you guys going to open another submission round after the new website release?
I’ll admit that this site is a bit hard to navigate.
October 27th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
Eston, we plan on having another round of submissions soon thereafter
October 27th, 2005 at 6:25 pm
Yep, a much cleaner/simpler/quicker way to peruse the entire network would be very helpful. Trying to scan all of those blog titles is painful at the moment.
October 31st, 2005 at 1:27 pm
So how’s the situation in Tampa? I can’t believe I got my redesign out before you guys did.
November 1st, 2005 at 5:38 pm
Situation is good in Tampa. You can’t believe it? I can
November 1st, 2005 at 6:39 pm
v2 looks amazing!
November 1st, 2005 at 8:21 pm
Geez .. I read about it, but after looking around with the ‘home’ start page design.. I must say .. Niiice
PS.. did you know the [DEL] button seems to be disabled in these comments? Makes editing difficult.
Take care //HART
November 2nd, 2005 at 3:25 am
Wow… it really looks awesome. Really gorgeous. I love the sexy ajax stuff. Excellent job!
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