The smiley, the first and world famous emoticion, exists for 25 years today. Prof. Scot E. Fahlman was the first person who used the emoticon. He used the smiley for the first time on 19 september 1982 in an electronic message to his students. He used the smiley because he wanted to introduce a symbol to show which messages aren’t suppose to take to serious. Thats why he introduced the smiley.

So congratulations to the smiley

Veerle has designed a new logo for her own company Duoh!

She gives a good explanation in the article on her site, about how the new logo got to the final version.
Take a look at her article.

Apple introduced his long expected iPhone. I must say, it has very nice looks, a real gadget.

The iPhone combining the functionalities of a phone, an iPod and a PDA. The iPhone comes with a 4 or 8 Gigabyte flash-memory, so you can listen to music, show movies, emailing, etc.

The interface of the iPhone is a touchscreen interface. The benefit of a touchscreen is that you have a large screen for showing your content, but a disadvantage is that your screen will have ‘fingers’ on it soon.
I can’t wait to take a look at Apple’s newest gadget, but have to wait till the end of 2007, then it will become available in europe.

The website Smashing Magazine published a list of the 50 most beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006. It’s not my top-50 list, but there are some pretty nice once there.

My “weblog friend” Nicolo is in the list there to!

My current assignment (for a client) is making an application with Google Maps, combined with serveral maps from the client. The application shows average prices from different house types within a range. I can’t go into to much detail and can’t give an URL yet, because the site is still in development status.

Here you can see an impression of the site.

In September we visited the nice town Gent in Belgium. Not that is was our first time there, we’ve been there a lot before, but to take some nice pictures with my new Canon EOS D350 camera.
Here you can see some pictures of Gent, taken with my Canon EOS D350 camera.

As I promised last month , here are a couple of sites that I liked watching this month. I liked them because of there colours, there styles, etc. Hope you enjoying them to and maybe get some inspiration of it.

Today I looked at my website and saw the the counter said: 9945 visitors. So in a short while visitor 10.000 will stop-by. I know for some websites is 10.000 visitors in a couple of month not much, they have more then 10.000 visitors a day, but for me I do think it is a nice result.

So congratulations to visitor 10.000 and if you be able to make a screenshot of number 10.000 at the bottom of my site and send it to me , it would be great!

Update: Visitor 10.000 has arrived, he emailed me a screenshot, thanks Haley for the screenshot! See the screenshot below.

I often surf on the Internet looking for nice designed sites, for inspiration, just for fun, etc.
There are a lot of showcase sites that I visited often, like: CSS Mania, CSS Galleries, CSS Import, Webdesignarchive, CSS Vault, CSS Bloom.

From now on, each month I am trying to show you a couple of sites that I liked that month. This month I am showing to you these nice looking sites:

I first saw it on Veerle’s website. It appears that John Hicks started with it. A lot of other people made one to, like: Scott, Dan and it became a meme.

So I tried making one to!

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