Miralize v9 : Merry Christmas

24 Dec 2009 3 Comment

Hey folks, hope you’re all having great holidays. I definitely am, especially now that Miralize version 9 is released. Yes, the same “Miralize v9″ that I’ve been tweeting about since late September. And the same one I have posted images about. The reason for the extremely long delay was because of college, and the business with others.

So What’s New?

Well, seeing as I’ve put in three months on and off work on it, I’ve made quite a few changes. Firstly I’ve moved to a new host, which has been great, excellent service extremely reliable and most of all, it was dirt cheap. ThisWebHost hasn’t failed me yet, and I’m not sure that it will any time soon.

The design is different. The inaugural Miralize design with my Macbook obviously sports Apple references, but also sites such as atebits.com ( really all of Tim Van Damme’s work really). The main reason I redesigned it this time because the previous incarnation was much too dark, and I wanted to brighten it up a bit. I’m using FuturaStd on my site for those on browsers with @font-face support. I’ve also added the following.

  • WordPress 2.9 support (already in love with the_post_thumbnail, canonical links, and the built in image editor)
  • Twitter and Feed stats
  • New logo (may change soon)
  • Size and speed – Drastically cut loading times with this new site so it should be less straining on your browser.
  • Full IE support. Yes I finally

Also worth nothing that some of the pages may be unavailable, but this is to change very soon (and I mean it). I’m doing something very interesting with the portfolio page to make my life so much easier than it was before.

What’s next?

Obviously I want the portfolio and about pages completed, but also a few extra things may creep into the design soon.

  • HTML5 – Should be interesting.
  • Twitter and Facebook connect commenting
  • Most importantly, decent and regular articles.

Thanks!

Thanks for being patient with me. I know I probably don’t deserve it. Now that its arrived, what do you think? Leave a comment below

  • http://mulley.net Damien Mulley

    Nicely done Seán, love the design.

    • http://miralize.com/ miralize

      Thanks Damien. Really happy with it.

  • http://danielbrierton.ie/ Daniel Brierton

    Nice. Makes me want to do something with my site (like your last redesign did)

    A problem with Chromium for Mac though…
    I seem to be getting a little bit of horizontal overflow in this comment box though… It’s scrolling left-to-right and with no scroll bar

    And in Firefox, the text aligns to the top of the input fields for comments, and it looks a little weird…

    Other than that, great design, keep up the good work