9rules Review

What is the 9rules network?
We highlight the very best web content in the world and package it in a nice bow for you to unwrap. Our members discuss topics like Web 2.0 design, Hollywood gossip, cognitive psychology, sex & relationships, entrepreneurship, and many others

Via 9rules

In short, they’re a network of fast upcoming authors in the blogosphere discussing many topics of the future. They have taken the blogging network into a whole new level when they first introduced themselves in 2003/2004.

When it first started out, 9rules already was a hit with me because it’s previous design was just ‘oh-so-perfect’ to me. Don’t believe me?

Sorry for the small display. I was hunting for the original or bigger version even at the Archive but they didn’t cache the images. Thanks Colin for passing me the flickR archives, to view a ful version proceed Colin’s flickR gallery.

A little descriptive history of the previous design. It was in a sleek dark grey making it very modern and not to mention a corporate feel to it. However, they enlightened the feeling to a more pleasant feel by having the content in warm and cheerful tones. Their tab navigaton really worked very well and their uber network member list below was something I liked personally. From there on, they were on their way to becoming one of the more established blogging networks around.

Then after 4 months[1] or less since launch, they still managed to push my eyes further out of its sockets. I’m unaware when was this done but I’ve a feeling it wasn’t too long ago. Better hold your eyes down.

Click image to view larger version.

The new 9rules design has brought a new feeling of fresh to it. It uses more pleasant and cool colors in its overall design. Most of the design now are placed inside curved boxes compared to the previous design. Probabaly done for the sake of eliminating the feeling of being boxed in.

And I’m still liking the list of network members even more. Instead of developing a huge list, now the members are being categorized. Neat. Also, I’m very interested in the technology being used to pull the list of members in accordance of their categories. Really cool thingy.

End said, 9rules still continues to improve itself even more and next time I think I’ll need to be warned before vieiwing something this nice. *grin*

[1]Colin D. Devroe emailed me and corrected my mistake. This is what he said, “our version 1 design was up for only about 4 months (not two years). We could never sit on a design that long :)”

Laugh Out Loud (LOL) good one on you, Colin. ;)