In just three days the new domain from my blog (and things) has changed its status from "new site" to position 826423, according to Netcraft! This is surely because of the redirection of daniel.graziotin.net (which was near top 30k) to bd-things.net. I would like to reach top 50k in less than one year, and how couldn't I start in a better way than creating a new bd-thing? Stay tuned, I may decide to announce it tomorrow

As I previously announced, I purchased a brand new domain for my stuff.
The blog is changing during the months, becoming more than a blog but less than a site.
That's because I decided to buy the domain BD-things.net, because this site contains all of my things, files, thoughts, projects, publications.
The old address daniel.graziotin.net now redirects permanently here and every link should have been updated/rewritten. Please contact me if you encounter problems.
I also took BD-blog.net which points here, too, but I won't renew it the next year.
Some things are different now, but you won't notice it
I obviously lost my decent position at Netcraft's Most Visited Web Sites rank list, but I don't care. It will be funny to advance with the new domain and reach a even better position!
I hope there will be a new beginning and a brand new life with BD-things!

BD-blog is currently at position 32755 in Netcraft Most visited web sites ranking. This means that I earned about 20k positions in just one month! This is thanks to the link of my review of GOS published on Distrowatch!

BD-blog site ranking, top 30000

I'm very happy with these results but now I want to begin a new race with a brand new domain name! I'm tired of bd-things.net, event if it brought me such great results and knowledge around the Net.
I will announce the new domain name very soon.

According to Netcraft, BD-blog recently broke the wall of top 50k in the most visited web sites. And finally, the RiskRating of the url reached score 0 (I don't know why, but it had a minimum RiskRating for almost two years).
Anyway, here is the screenshot of the site rank:

I'm so happy about it!

BD-blog has a new fresh theme! I've written it quite from scratch and I'm very proud of this. Of sure, it doesn't look as cool as the old one, but I'm not a designer and I really wanted to write my own theme.
You can download it here: http://bd-things.net/projects/bd-theme/. You should wait a stable release (=1.0) before downloading it, because I've just uploaded it and is under testing.

BD-theme is a widget ready, two columns Wordpress style, written using the default Wordpress theme as php/xhtml base. The theme is inspired by TorrentFreak rounded layout, and some little ideas are inspired by Curved Theme, which was the old BD-blog theme.
I just wanted to write my own Wordpress theme.
This is my first theme, and my first try to design something nice. Source code is available below.

If you like BD-blog theme, then download BD-theme =)

Download:

• 2008-11-27 - version 1.0 beta 1
  Changes from 0.9:
  • Change of dtd: from xhtml 1.0 transitional to xhtml 1.0 strict
  • Yes it's VALID Xhtml
  • Navigation links now present in every section of the theme (archive,single, index etc)
  • Ready for Get Recent Comments and Recent Posts, both recommended and displayed at the page footer if installed
  • New logo system that checks if IE6 is present and presents an alternative page without logo
  • More space for content is given
  • Post headers (title and date) are fixed for every browser
  • Fixed some css bugs for those wo do not use the sidebar
  • Lighter css! more standard but still not finished
  • Screenshot:
    

    BD-theme 1.0 beta 1 screenshot

  What will be next:

  • CSS fixes for IE6
  • Cleaner Code

• 2008-09-19 - version 0.9
  Changes from 0.8-experiment:
  • Fully Compatible with Mozilla Firefox 2/3, Internet Explorer 6,7,8, Google Chrome, Apple Safari
  • More harmonious and stable
  • Links to pages are now rounded corner buttons
  • Buttons for pages moved over main layout, added a button for accessing the blog posts
  • The current page link button gets the same background color of the content page
  • Post header layout changed: a very nice band contains the title of the post and the date of posting exits the main layout
  • Various CSS fixes
  • Screenshot:
    

    BD-theme 0.9 Screenshot

  What will be next:

  • CSS bugs totally fixed (I hope :D)
  • Theme has to pass w3c's xhtml/css validations
  • Theme has to remain compatible with all browsers

• 2008-08-21 - version 0.8 - experiment
  About:
  • Quite everything changed in the last 6 months, but the colors
  • This is the source code of the experiments done from the post of 06-06-2008: BD-theme’s new look
  • NOT to be considered as a stable release, code is very dirty (but almost functional)
  • It's the base I've been using since 7 days for the final release, It's available because somebody may like it more than the next version, or to modify it
  • An image helps more than a thousand words:
    
    

    BD-theme 0.8, the Experiment

    
    
    

    BD-theme 0.2 - Classic

• 2008-02-21 - version 0.2
  Changes:
  • fixed a:hover transparency bug in #pages
  • fixed .entry links and img
  • added a stlye for blockqoute
  • fixed some values of the searchform in the sidebar (safari fix)
  • added a style for the links inside the #footer section
• 2008-01-24 - version 0.1
  First version, download it just if you want to customize it or to create a new theme based on this one. I'm testing it on my blog. It may contain "useless" code from the default Wordpress Theme