Before:

After:

Truly is impressive how much detail this screen has, you have to click the images to get the full effect.

Here is the result, quite proud of it

Not that it was a bad design when you first saw it, it simply was a bad design the second time you visited it, simply put, it got old incredibly fast.

But we liked some of it’s elements and the color scheme, so now that we have an in-house web designer (plus in-house copywriter, illustrator, marketing, etc) it was time to kick the old one and introduce something new.

I’m quite proud of it, everybody worked on it, and as such it represents us quite well, we serious about out product and we serious about our clients, but we are NOT boring

Every time I work on a site I always love to include illustrations to depict visually what we do, back in the Relio days we used an illustration to show how it powered a unified UK and US hosting platform, this latest illustration shows OnApp as a machine that creates cloud (all done by our in-house staff BTW) … well, thats exactly what it is

But for the past year I have been using twitter as well, and it shows on the lack of updates on my blog, last year I posted 43 new posts (62 the year prior), this year, with 3/4 of it gone, I only posted … 7

Need to bog more important stuff

Initially I ordered the version with the built-in ADSL modem, but I could not get it to connect to O2, so I replaced it with the cable modem version (works just as well provided you have a ADSL modem), and now all my wireless problems are gone, it’s rock solid and now my drobo server and livingroom ATV are connected via 1GIG ethernet

I know the N1 is now a few years old, but it’s N technology and that display just got my attention, I have it set to the UP/DOWN view, it’s cool to see it burst when I am watching a movie or renting an iTunes show, also proven useful to see if the girls are using the computers on their bedroom past their bed time

I then saw my wife deleting all her facebook comments of the last year and erasing all texts from her iPhone, I asked “why ?” she said she wanted to get rid of all the clutter from her digital media, like a end-of-year cleaning ..

It then daunted on me, I am a “Data Hoarder”, while I have no problem in hiring a skip every year and emptying the garage of all the clutter, I am unable to delete a single file from my Hard Drive, I have a couple of years worth of texts on my iPhone and e-mails from 2 decades ago (well, 2 decades from tomorrow).

My wife looks at my laptop the same way I look at those hoarders houses, a conglomerate of junk and (for her) worthless heaps of data, but for me, they priceless.

Well, at least my hoarding does not smell

So as expected, people took notice, so much so than in their path to Cloud nirvana they are watching our own site very closely, I have posted in the past some examples of others using our “Node Slider”, but seems even our FAQ is up for grabs ..

Thats the upcoming VPSHIVE Cloud FAQ filler pages, yeah, i’d sure it’s just filler for now and will be changed before going LIVE, but it’s nice to see we are inspiring others, and I mean it in a good way.

Since it was to be very small, the details had to be exaggerated

I think I got it :p