And Another
December 14, 2006
Tonight, with great excitement, the team at Automattic launched the new WordPress.com. Designing and coding the new site was my second task as a full-timer at Automattic, and it was definitely the one project I was most looking forward to tackling when I took the position.
As with all relaunches, there are a few things to finesse here and there, but we’re all quite excited about the new site. Our users’ content is the star of the show here, but we’ve made it even easier for the first-timer to get started, or for the old hat to log in and get back to work. Tags are right on the home page now, along with featured content, and it’s all tied presented as efficiently as possible thanks to some JavaScript magic originally developed by Simon Collison.
So, we’ve relaunched automattic.com and wordpress.com in the past two weeks, and I’ve got more on the horizon. I’m happy to say that my career with Automattic is off to an auspicious start.
Great work on the re-design! The original one served us well for a year when we grew from a few hundred to a few hundred thousand blogs (!) – but it was definitely time for a change.
Here’s to the next five hundred thousand. :)
As someone new to blogging, I am very impressed with what I can do with very little technical knowledge, though I am learning (slowly). Thank you.
You’re doing great Matt.