The look and feel of Google.com has not changed very much during the past 10 years. The most frequently changing part is the Google logo which is replaced by a Google doodle every now and then.
This video shows different Google.com homepages exposed to visitors since Google came into being in 1998. Fun to watch Google's design evolution — except for the soundtrack.
One of the great improvements in Views 2 is the ability to create various page and block displays for one view. Block views can be linked to a page display when the More link option in the block's settings is enabled.
If there are one or more page displays set up in the view, the page to be linked can be chosen after clicking on the link next to the Page display option. See the screenshot below for an example:
MediaWiki is the wiki software that drives one of the most popular sites on the Web Wikipedia. I would't say that Wikipedia looks ugly but it feels a bit moldy.
MediWiki also drives the jQuery documentation site which demonstrates that MediaWiki can look great. Before the recent redesign of jQuery.com the designers of the jQuery docs site already managed to create a unique look in contrast to 99.9% of the other MediWiki driven sites. Now they made it a blast, congrats!
According to Dries' State of Drupal 2008 presentation backed by a survey with 1367 participants the drupal.org redesign is a very important task for improving the user experience of the Drupal project as a whole.
In the current stage of the redesign process feedback from drupal.org users is essential. To participate the GDO Redesign group is a good starting point.
One day after the initial release of Chrome, Google's new browser is one of the hot topics on the Web. As usual when Google releases something new, you can hear many voices hail out loud, that the world is going to be a better place from now on.
Fortunately, there are also critical voices from people who dig a little deeper and don't believe that Google does everything out of pure altruism. Labeling them as conspiracy theorists may be fun for Google employees, but it shows how serious they are taking their users' privacy concerns.
