Nine years

Feb 5, 2010

Bobulate turned nine years old this week, and in celebration of its big day, I gave it an unintentional rest. The site went down for a bit. Sort of like the old days.

The original site was designed to look and sound like a wireframe, with greeked text, placeholder images, and all:

This site is intended to look and behave like a working prototype — an interactive model. You’ll find functional pages and real content: they are not, however, “designed.” You’ll see techniques used in prototyping, such as Latin used as a placeholder for text and boxes used as placeholders for graphics.

I still admire that old site concept, and it hobbles on, in part, along with some old posts.

You’ll see that the first iteration of the vizsla icon in the lower-right corner has lived on. Incidentally, the real version also turned nine this year.

Happy birthday Bobulate.




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About Liz

Danzico is part designer, part teacher, part editor. As an independent consultant, she traces the roots of her craft back to her parents. According to Liz, "Growing up at least a little information architect gave me an organizational advantage over my friends." More